April 2009

Personal outsourcing

April 24, 2009 General

More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas For those interested in this topic, Phil Fersht from AMR Research contacted me. Per Vinnie: Depending on whether you are a buyer, vendor or advisor there are different sets of questions – but Phil assures me they take no more than 10 minutes. Participants get a free copy [...]

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Budget09: the tech take and lessons learned

April 22, 2009 General

The UK 2009, Budget is the first time that many of the modern media technologies have been used in anger. As I write this, the casting of the runes among the experts has yet to be fully played out but a few preliminary observations can be made. It was clear the general media had grasped [...]

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Tungle: mother's little helper

April 22, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Calendar coordination remains one of those pain in the butt things that everyone loves to hate. Unless you’ve got a MS Exchange server – which can be a very expensive investment – it is very difficult to synchronize calendars. In most client situations you won’t know what, if anything, the client is using. That compounds [...]

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QuickBooks under attack

April 22, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

One of the great benefits of the current crop of publishing tools is that it allows anyone with an internet connection to add information to the global pool of knowledge upon which we can all draw and learn. One example is NMQB or No More Quick Books. As the site says: We’ve been using the [...]

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Budget UK 2009: live coverage

April 21, 2009 Featured

<a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=9791e8ba07″ >Budget 2009</a> Tomorrow is Budget Day UK and I’ll be using CoverItLive (above) to capture the action across multiple channels. Coverage starts at 1pm UK time when when we’ll have the news channels and pundits putting out their predictions. This is possibly the most important Budget in recent UK history so please feel [...]

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billFLO: an old idea that keeps coming around

April 21, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

billFLO wants to take the drudge out of processing invoices between systems by making invoices machine readable. This is an issue that surfaces every now and again but has sop far proven elusive to crack. billFLO makes the claim that: Vendors simply email computer-readable billFLO invoices to customers who, in turn, use billFLO to instantly [...]

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Would you pay for educational Excel videos?

April 21, 2009 General

AccountingWeb does a terrific job looking at the video after market for Excel. It is sorely needed as Excel can be a minefield for the unwary. Among those ‘reviewed’ is frequent commenter and all around good person Emily Coltman who is carving a career in developing educational videos. Check this on VLOOKUP. AW says: Many [...]

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US wriggling on IFRS

April 21, 2009 General

AICPA reports on the latest comments to the SEC around the proposed US transition to IFRS based on FASB research. In summary, the research is suggesting: Maintain U.S. GAAP with acceptance of IFRS from foreign firms Maintain U.S. GAAP with continued convergence between IFRS and U.S. GAAP Allow choice between IFRS and U.S. GAAP, but [...]

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Jeremy Newman BDO: we suspended belief

April 17, 2009 General

When Jeremy Newman was blogging as BDO’s UK CEO, I always admired the refreshing way he tackled subjects. I’m glad to see that in his role as global CEO, Jeremy has lost none of that spark. Thank goodness he has not been infected with the acquired need to talk double speak or legally sanitzed PR [...]

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Andrew Keen: how (most of us) are royally screwed

April 17, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Andrew Keen: Web 2.0 Is Fucked (The Next Web 2009) from Robin Wauters on Vimeo. As you can see from the title, part of this video is not safe for work. It is also a contrarian view of the democratization of the Internet that so many predict. Andrew Keen is a contrarian, a person I [...]

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