Tom Herbert
Member Since: 1st Sep 2015
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Tom is AccountingWEB's technology editor, providing unbiased news and analysis from the accounting tech universe.
He started with AccountingWEB in the heady days of 2015, where he worked first as business editor and then editor of the site. After two years as editor of ICAEW Insights, he returned to AccountingWEB in 2022 with a specific brief to spruce up the technology coverage.
Prior to covering accountancy for a living, Tom spent five years in China working for events, hotel and travel publications, attempting to teach English, and working as a tour guide at the Beijing Olympic Games.
Got an accounting tech tale to tell? Message me on the site or email [email protected]
Technology editor AccountingWEB
15th Mar 2024
Happy Friday forum friends, Not a question as such, but as it's Friday I thought I'd share this gem of a quote from the EuSpRIG spreadsheet...
17th Oct 2023
An unexpected theme from this year’s Autumn conference season has been accountant frustration at a lack of integration between the...
27th Sep 2023
Hi all, After the initial hype around artificial intelligence and its potential applications to accounting work, a few tools have started...
2nd Aug 2023
Greetings and salutations one and all, your friendly tech editor calling. After an illuminating conversation with the peerless David Winch...
12th Jul 2023
Hi all, Many apologies for the gratuitous hijacking of the forum, but we're currently running research on the lack of capacity in the...
22nd Jun 2023
This from my old muckers at ICAEW Insights: "Several HMRC services will be unavailable from Friday 23 June to Monday 26 June 2023. This...
17th Apr 2023
Afternoon everyone, Your friendly tech editor here. Am mulling over whether it's ever acceptable to ‘bend the truth’ about your proficiency...
25th Jan 2023
Hello one and all, It's your friendly technology editor once again. February at AccountingWEB often sees a rise in software searches as...
24th Jan 2023
Greetings one and all, I hope everyone's January is... bearable? I'm following up on a couple of reports about the performance of HMRC's...
18th Jan 2023
Greetings from chilly Bristol, AWeb members. At our event back in November, I got chatting with a small firm owner (who shall remain...