Accounting

Will complexity suck the life out of the SaaS advantage?

August 16, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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Earlier today I received an update from Xero. It said: New Ledger Edition We’ve created a new edition of Xero called Ledger for clients who really only need end-of year reporting. Even if you try it and decide you’d like to be be able to do more, such as invoicing or bank feeds, you can [...]

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Has Sage 50 quietly gone into maintenance mode?

August 3, 2010 General

Sage 50 recently announced its 2011 edition. Running through the videos and checking out the new features I could not help but think: has it gone into maintenance mode? Here’s what Sage is majoring upon as new features: Bank reconciliation All the details you need are now on one printable screen. Complete customer and supplier [...]

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Kashflow cuts Barclaycard deal: where was Sage?

July 29, 2010 Innovation

TechCrunch Europe is reporting a deal between KashFlow and Barclaycard that sees Barclays developing a pilot e-billing scheme for its customers. According to TCE: As for KashFlow itself, the email makes mention that the company usually charges £15.99 + VAT a month for its service but that Barclaycard is “waiving” the charge for pilot merchants. [...]

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And so it came to pass…

July 23, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

According to AccountingWeb referring to the Software Satisfaction Awards for 2010 says: The awards have also done away with the distinction between on-premise and web-based “Cloud” applications. As with last year, the SME Accounting category has become a fight between the leading lights of the accounting software as a service industry – FreeAgent Central, KashFlow [...]

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Xero tilting at Sage?

July 7, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Gary Turner’s post: Long distance running, icebergs and Sage contains this intriguing passage: …building a business that gets to 1,000 paying customers is very tough, but getting to 5,000 or 10,000 and beyond is exponentially much, much harder and more complex, particularly if you have to change course or undo decisions mid-way through. So, it’s [...]

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e-conomic snags PwC in Denmark

July 6, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

In a post on the e-cconomic blog, the company says: We’re delighted to say we’ve just signed a contract with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Denmark. They will be putting a substantial number of their clients on to E-conomic, during the next few months. From this point on, PWC will be using E-conomic for all their clients who [...]

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A KashFlow update

July 5, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Last Monday I visited KashFlow‘s offices in central London to film an interview with CEO Duane Jasckson. Duane was both generous with his time and prepared to be frank about what the company is doing, where it is heading and the kinds of thing it has in store. Off camera, he showed me the practitioners’ [...]

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More cloud accounting benefits

July 1, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

It is becoming increasingly obvious that clouding computing benefits as they apply to the accounting arena stretch way beyond the ability to save time, effort and cost. As I meet with more customers, I am discovering benefits that only customers can express. In the above video, Gary White, CEO of White Springs, a sales enablement company [...]

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Is ICAEW failing?

June 10, 2010 Innovation

A couple of days ago I was pinged on Twitter: @dahowlett you should talk to @cheapaccounting about this worthy campaign – http://bit.ly/ca7Cth The worthy campaign in question is What Is An Accountant? that CheapAccounting (what an awful name?) is running. My response was that this is where IACEW/ACCA/CIMA and others fit in. I don’t want [...]

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Kashflow, Xero, Zappos, Zoho : nuances and ethics

June 8, 2010 Tax and Ethics

Earlier today I read an extract from Tony Hsieh, co-founder Zappos upcoming book on why they built something before taking venture funding, what happened when they did take money and what forced them into the arms of Amazon. It’s instructive for the different perspectives you see on why entrepreneurs do what they do and what [...]

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