rsergeant

Member Since: 3rd Aug 2009

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Specialist insight and business development support for accountants and their vendors. Cloud advocate with a pragmatist eye.

Director Principle Point

18th Mar 2020

The flow of data from one system to another is one of the heralded benefits of having more cloud-enabled software. A question, however,...

19th Feb 2020

Banks have started to make their way into the world of fintech, and more recently, have been attempting more seriously to integrate banking...

11th Dec 2019

It’s fair to say that many of the high street banks have fallen out of favour with accountants over the years. Key gripes include how...

16th Sep 2019

Zoe Whitman recently wrote on AccountingWEB about how she learned to stop worrying and love networking . As Whitman outlined, networking is...

5th Aug 2019

With a consolidator resurgence brewing, Richard Sergeant examines if we can learn from the lessons of the past and if there is a stable...

22nd Jul 2019

The latest figures from software vendors and AccountingWEB all point to the inexorable rise of cloud accounting. Drawing on these sources...

17th Jun 2019

Does being a leader in accountancy mean managing risks or taking them? Richard Sergeant speaks to five accountants about their attitude...

6th Jun 2019

Richard Sergeant explores the strain additional compliance like Making Tax Digital has had on accountants’ mental health. The impact of MTD...

16th May 2019

Since the initial announcement about MTD there have been voices in the profession proclaiming the final straw, and that time was probably...

2nd May 2019

For the accounting software vendors, the ethical question boils down to whether accountants should understand the process or just trust the...