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ICAEW Cloud Computing for Accountants: dead book keepers

September 26, 2010 Innovation
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Apologies for those who are done to death by my ICAEW videos. I felt it was appropriate for readers to see and hear from users who talk candidly about their experiences, the issues they come across and the benefits they are getting. Chunking them into small pieces gives everyone an opportunity to decide what they [...]

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AICPA and ICAEW face common issues

July 5, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Paul Stahlin, incoming AICPA chair: You ignore globalization at your peril from Rick Telberg on Vimeo. Any practitioner that is serving clients who trade on the Internet cannot be blind to the globalization of trade. I bitch on about systems that don’t handle multi-currency well for good reason. I have to juggle three currencies and [...]

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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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Cloud Industry Code of Practice: useful or cloudwashing?

June 1, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I’ve said on many an occasion that the SaaS/on-demand/cloud (pick your favourite buzzword or just choose SOC) has done a poor job in stemming the flow of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) or dealing with the endless stream of inane posts or comments on topics like security, reliability or that great catch all ‘standards.’ Some [...]

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Accountants flocking to the cloud? Not yet

April 15, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Big Fat CPA conflates two things to declare: Accountants flock to the cloud. First: A report from International Data Corp. (IDC), Framingham, MA, shows cloud services jumping from $17.4 billion in 2009 to $44.2 billion by 2013. Of that, almost half is accounted for by software services, such as AICPA is touting. Big as it [...]

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What can CPA2Biz teach us?

March 22, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Last week I had a fascinating conversation with Michael Cerami, VP partner alliances at CPA2Biz. It is the commercial arm of AICPA. There is no UK equivalent even though ICAEW has monetization efforts alongside its main membership. The backdrop to our conversation was an email where they said: “What’s unique about this is the fact that [...]

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Trust: the new imperative

June 2, 2009 Tax and Ethics

It should be obvious to any professional accountant that trust should be the cornerstone around which our client and business relationships should revolve. Regular readers will know that I have been scathing of the Big 4 in particular across multiple dimensions: tax, audit quality, fraud…you name it. So when McKinsey says: Most recognize the perception [...]

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Three little piggies or we all fall down and then what?

May 26, 2009 Tax and Ethics

A couple of weeks ago Jim Peterson digitally urinated all over a piece in AccountancyAge about the Big Four and whether one would fall. In the process, he took a mild swing at Francine and my bet on the same topic. Jim is blunt and to the point. He says not if but when (as [...]

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Ignore Everybody: a critique

May 18, 2009 Innovation

Ignore Everybody is the title of Hugh MacLeod’s foray into the literary world. I received my galley copy at the weekend and spent Saturday afternoon reading it. At around 160 pages including plenty of Hugh’s cartoons, it is an easy read. If you’ve read gapingvoid then you’ll know what to expect…a screw everyone and what [...]

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