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iXBRL – the final nail in the spreadsheet reporting train wreck?

Mar 13, 2010 8:30am

iXBRL is only a matter of weeks away and panic has set in. On AccountingWeb, Excel expert Simon Hurst makes a valiant effort at seeing if he can make Excel produce a valid set of iXBRL tags. In telling words he says: If you use tax and accounts production software then...

Sweet revenge

Mar 11, 2010 11:50pm

Courtesy of of Thomas Finn Given how badly some companies treat employees, (and they all claim the contrary – right?) I’m surprised we don’t see more of this kind of thing....

Google Apps Marketplace: ready for prime time?

Mar 11, 2010 6:04am

Is Google Apps Marketplace ready for prime time or is this another example of Google’s perennial beta program? Google Apps Marketplace opened yesterday to great fanfare. At one point I was receiving around 10 emails an hour informing me of new services being added into the platform. Naturally, the first place...

Put on your sunglasses: Brightbook

Mar 11, 2010 5:16am

Yesterday I received an email asking me to look at Brightbook. I haven’t and I won’t. Check the image above from the website. Fortunately I have spectacles that darken in sunlight but even that wasn’t enough to prevent me from wanting to close the link almost the moment I saw...

RightNow’s CSA – a game changer?

Mar 9, 2010 7:32am

RightNow’s CSA announcement from last week could be a game changer for SaaS and on-premise providers alike. The above video sets out my thinking behind last week’s Customer Service Agreement (CSA) announcement by the company. At the time, I wrote a short analysis over at ZDNet. The above video is...

Define your success by understanding what clients REALLY want

Mar 8, 2010 6:42pm

Rick Telberg’s CPA Trendlines has a survey that should get any professional thinking. Entitled: How Do Business Owners Define Success? It draws inspiration from a recent business owners’ survey. Rick says: Accountants often define success in terms of revenue, net income, or maybe client service. But the Enterprise Council on Small...

The New Polymath

Mar 6, 2010 11:30pm

The New Polymath, Vinnie Mirchandani’s first book, is due for release sometime around June. The book is a journey through some of the most amazing innovations in the world today. Regular readers will know that Vinnie and I are good friends separated by around 4,600 miles of (mostly) Atlantic Ocean. Stat...

Pearl sticks its claws into IRIS

Mar 3, 2010 8:40pm

Pearl has developed an integration to IRIS. It had to happen and it is an important landmark. I’ve long felt that the battleground among SaaS accounting providers will be fought on two fronts: directly with customers, which is already happening, and by the extent to which the providers can either...

Alan Lewis: the best accountants website – ever

Mar 3, 2010 7:48pm

How often do you see an accountant’s website that doesn’t look like an accountant’s website? I’m willing to bet that almost never occurs. How often have you heard me bitching about crappy professional websites? Plenty. The one you see above represents a small Australian practice, Alan Lewis Accountants. You can see...

If in doubt, jump off the social media bandwagon

Mar 3, 2010 6:54am

It’s all to easy to jump on a bandwagon without really understanding what’s going on. Most bandwagons are about trying to sell you something. They masquerade as exercises in claimed thought leadership when often they’re a half baked solution looking for a problem. Bandwagons have a habit of taking on...