June 2006

ICAEW has real opportunity

June 30, 2006 Marketing

Having clients best interests at heart in tax planning is one thing, but I fear we’ve not seen the end of revelations like the Barclays Bank incident…. But if the profession doesn’t at least attempt to deal with this as an issue then CAs will find it hard to get away from their ‘number cruncher/audit’ perception at exactly the time when business most needs and could benefit from their help.

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WSJ – Barclays involved in cross border tax engineering

June 30, 2006 Tax and Ethics

It says: For instance, in 2003 his team set up a company with no employees, no products and no customers — just a mailing address in Delaware and a slate of British directors, mostly employees of his office…. What I find astonishing is that according to the Journal, the schemes are considered entirely legal on both sides of The Pond at a time when HMRC is accused of being aggressive in its approach to tax avoidance.

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Anstee – OUT

June 30, 2006 General

Ken Frost has the skinny (I’ve been otherwise occupied.)… Whomever steps in has a dung pile to shovel away.

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DabbleDB doesn't add up…either way

June 30, 2006 Innovation

Following on from my last post about DabbleDB I finally grasped how formulae work from the video Avi created (see his comment and follow back to his post about my previous problem) and continued with my wee billing control app. The screenshot is above and when you click it, it will download a graphic image…. At this point, DabbleDB is failing to meet two of Kleiner Perkins/Jeff Clavier’s criteria for investment: Instant value Simple, intuitive user experience I’m glad I caveated my first take on this.

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How bad does it have to get?

June 30, 2006 Tax and Ethics

The 10B-5 Daily previously talked about the company settling a fraud case for $410 million…. Carly Andrews, now a lecturer at Cox SMU used to be part of both internal and external audit teams to Raytheon during the ‘dark days’ (check the dates.)

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Dabble DB – am I thick?

June 30, 2006 General

I’ve posted comments o Paul Kedrosky’s site about this (he invested), TechCrunch, where Mike is effusive about the funding and Jeff Nolan, who wants to see more of this kind of app in the enterprise…. But mass adoption requires business people to get it and run with it.(Think accountants with 1,000 clients+ because they’re the business influencers for consumer+ apps.)

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Business Partner or Scorekeeper

June 30, 2006 General

Aloys Hosman has a great graphic that helps practitioners of all stripes understand the difference between the scorekeeper and business partner. I’ve shamelessly stolen it.

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NetSuite – sort out the marketing/PR, please

June 29, 2006 Marketing

As readers know, I love the SaaS space and believe it has a genuine future but these statements are terminological inexactitudes as Winston Churchill once famously said…. They recently put me in front of a customer who has achieved great benefits but cannot say whether in the round of things, the implementation has made a measurable difference to the business.

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Enterprise stuff

June 29, 2006 General

If your interest extends beyond that then check out Enterprise Irregulars which is getting lots of content and to see where it started then see the SAPPHIRE06 wiki to find some of my enterprise pals and the content that arose out of that event. Even if you think the topic is totally irrelevant it’s worth storing away some of the nuggets because over the years I’ve found that what hits the enterprise today will reach you later.

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