Emily Coltman is a walking talking example of the next generation of professional accountants. She’s on Twitter, runs two blogs, makes videos and now provides specialist services for home based businesses. If she can’t help you for one reason or another then she can recommend colleagues. This is what her web site says:
Want a friendly [...]
I’ve been off the grid the last few days and only just catching up. So it seems BDO International escaped the knock on effect of the $522 million judgment against BDO Seidman in the Banco Espiritu Santo (BES) case. The case, which fell in two parts was effectively torpedoed when Miami-Dade Circuit Judge John Schlesinger [...]
It’s a bit dramatic I know but most of today I’ve been following events at MD Biz Expo, Maryland’s CPA coming together to share in a two day conference. It’s being held in Baltimore. There has been much goodness to observe. Other than the solid line up of speakers, organizers Bill Sheridan and Tom Hood [...]
A wee bit of stumbling about on the Internet yielded Firm Spy. In its own words:
Australasian professionals need an outlet to share the real news — and in so doing, to hold their industries and employers to account. Our mission is simple: to give Australian lawyers, bankers, accountants and consultants a voice and allow them [...]
If there’s one thing I admire it’s a professional who is prepared to take a risk.
A while back I asked the question: What’s right and wrong about newsletters? To his credit, Adrian Pearson popped his head above the parapet and pointed to his latest offering.
Others commented and today Adrian returned for more, announcing that his [...]
Every man and his dog is having a piece of Google Wave at the moment. That’s hardly surprising. When Google coughs, others reach for their hankies such is the media power that Google holds. I spent an hour or so watching the video. At that stage it had been viewed 443,000 times. That was less [...]
The above book is being excerpted on bMighty and in Chapter 14: Enterprise 2.0: Wiki While You Work, the author cites something I wrote a while back: CEOs instinctively know that internal collaboration, whether through rudimentary technologies like...
I don’t mean here and now because at the moment he’s fouling things up. I mean when he undertook his campaign? Ben Kepes is at the Enterprise 2.0 jamboree. His piece that talks about my.barackobama.com: The Secrets...
The other week while in Amsterdam, I met with Sanjay Parekh, CEO of WebExpenses. For those that don’t know, WebExpenses simplifies and automates expense processing including coverage for different tax rules. How cool is that? Check out...
In a press release that just floated across my desk: Pegasus Software, a leading supplier of accounting and business software to SMEs in the UK and Ireland, today announced the launch of Scrap IT – an initiative for...
The other evening I spoke with Tate Holt, CEO of WorkingPoint, the rebranded NetBooks. He told me that while the concepts behind NetBooks were fine, the execution was less than perfect. As a result, the company has...
Xero had an outage last evening UK time, 8.15am in New Zealand. The outage lasted 45 minutes and was attributed to data centre issues at Rackspace Dallas, its hosting provider. Xero isn’t alone. The Rackspace issue spread...
FOWA Tour- Roan Lavery View more Microsoft Word documents from Carsonified Team. The last couple of weeks I’ve been hearing a familiar sound: how do saas/on-demand businesses find a good business model? Each place I go I have heard...
