13 May 2010 Comments Off

Accountants websites – are they working?

Accountants websites – are they working?

I recently participated in a discussion on AccountingWeb where I questioned the value of including detailed technical and tax resources on accountants’ websites.  My long-held view is that such resources are a waste of money.  If I were a client, I would want to pick up the phone and get the answers I need.  I [...]

22 April 2010 3 Comments

New tools are for new services

New tools are for new services

I have just spent 10 minutes writing a comment to this posting over on Accounting Web, then thought that it would be better to set out my thoughts here. There is a fundamental misunderstanding in the Accounting Web discussion, when contributors state (rightly to some extent) that transactions cannot be keyed into the online accounting [...]

2 February 2010 8 Comments

Can One Ledger be a reality?

Can One Ledger be a reality?

I met up with Hamish Edwards and Darren Glanville from Xero online accounting software yesterday, when they dropped in to the Pearson & Associates offices. It was good to meet Hamish for the first time, after previous telephone and cyberspace conversations.  Most of the talk was about how Xero could help us with the process [...]