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Specialist insight and business development support for accountants and their vendors. Cloud advocate with a pragmatist eye.
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11th Jun 2018
Richard Sergeant speaks with those that have often perpetuated the decline in the value of compliance and the need to offer advisory...
11th May 2018
Suppliers and consultants promote advisory services as the future of the profession, but what do practitioners think? Richard Sergeant...
30th Apr 2018
These days, firms are routinely urged to adopt advisory services. But reflecting on its history, Richard Sergeant discovers that the...
3rd Apr 2018
Richard Sergeant reports from 2018's conferences and roadshows on the optimism accountants have displayed towards the profession's...
21st Mar 2018
What do you do when you are a huge global software company and have a big cash pile? QuickBooks has answered that question with Smart...
7th Mar 2018
At Xerocon London late last year the new migration certification and Xero HQ emerged as the New Zealand-based cloud accounting developer’s...
15th Feb 2018
Firms are open to new technology, and yet there's an unwillingness to adopt. Richard Sergeant considers why this is the case. The challenge...
2nd Feb 2018
Accountants are often cited as the number one business adviser for small businesses. Reports and research from ICAEW as recently as 2014...
10th Jan 2018
It's a very busy market out there for fintech and cloud accounting related services, and as accountants are increasingly important to the...
8th Dec 2017
2017 has been a record year for investment in fintech businesses in the UK, with over £825 million pumped in by investors since the start...