Hi Paul, headline has been produced by Rachael ;-) That accountants are not driving cloud adoption that certainly is no news to me at least. But what I find quite interesting that this is the situation for already a couple of years. My personal opinion is that practices do not feel the pain at this moment: no pain no change. When clients threaten to leave maybe than accountants are forced to be creative and think about how to do things differently. But again, that is just my personal opinion.
Very true. Many vendors, companies in the market are talking about growth, even ourselves. But practices but also smaller companies should take a step back and get back to their true meaning. Once they realized why they exist it is either growing or maintain the business. That's fully dependent on each and every ambition. That's also why we included in our persona description '...entrepreneur with ambition', even for accountants.
I very much encourage what Sarah is doing. Making small apps enabling to have access 24x7 to little pieces of information that helps you drive your business. Talking about financial accounting lots of structured information is accessable online, when mixed and matched with unstructured information on the internet combined with Sarah's specific knowledge and expertise she should be able to create one or more unique apps. Mobile internet stability? Just a matter of time. Maybe in Holland we are ahead of the UK but we have mobile 3G access everywhere. Still wondering why not more people like Sarah are taking the lead with other information apps, I also wrote a blog item about this http://blog.twinfield.com/2010/06/12/%E2%80%98linkedin-plug-in-for-twinfield-collects-debtors-information/
Lots of technical discussions about how to implement XBRL. But what about the benefits for our customers, the SME market? http://blog.twinfield.com/?p=622
Social media will help accountancy practices move forward
Just like we do ourselves, use social media to communicate with users, customers and prospects we also educate accounting practices how to use it. Therefore we have a list of 5 tips for accountants how to move forward. http://blog.twinfield.com/?p=612
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Txs for this addition Mark. That's the nice thing about this type of media, do don't need to join and as a user you are always in control by yourself!
Exact Online
A pitty you didnt mention Exact Online ;-)... http://www.exactonline.co.uk/
Hi Paul, headline has been produced by Rachael ;-) That accountants are not driving cloud adoption that certainly is no news to me at least. But what I find quite interesting that this is the situation for already a couple of years. My personal opinion is that practices do not feel the pain at this moment: no pain no change. When clients threaten to leave maybe than accountants are forced to be creative and think about how to do things differently. But again, that is just my personal opinion.
clients driven...
...Hi Paul, what the research indicates is that if an accountant moves clients to the cloud, most of the times this is driven by the client itself...
insight
wondering why practices are still a bit reluctant to the cloud?
in my opinion still driven by client demand... https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/article/client-demand-drives-cloud-adoption/548095
True
Very true. Many vendors, companies in the market are talking about growth, even ourselves. But practices but also smaller companies should take a step back and get back to their true meaning. Once they realized why they exist it is either growing or maintain the business. That's fully dependent on each and every ambition. That's also why we included in our persona description '...entrepreneur with ambition', even for accountants.
Aggregation of information = competitive edge
I very much encourage what Sarah is doing. Making small apps enabling to have access 24x7 to little pieces of information that helps you drive your business. Talking about financial accounting lots of structured information is accessable online, when mixed and matched with unstructured information on the internet combined with Sarah's specific knowledge and expertise she should be able to create one or more unique apps. Mobile internet stability? Just a matter of time. Maybe in Holland we are ahead of the UK but we have mobile 3G access everywhere. Still wondering why not more people like Sarah are taking the lead with other information apps, I also wrote a blog item about this http://blog.twinfield.com/2010/06/12/%E2%80%98linkedin-plug-in-for-twinfield-collects-debtors-information/
What about the value of XBRL for SME?
Lots of technical discussions about how to implement XBRL. But what about the benefits for our customers, the SME market? http://blog.twinfield.com/?p=622
Social media will help accountancy practices move forward
Just like we do ourselves, use social media to communicate with users, customers and prospects we also educate accounting practices how to use it. Therefore we have a list of 5 tips for accountants how to move forward. http://blog.twinfield.com/?p=612