Is Digits the future of accounting software?
It claims to have "The World's First Autonomous General Ledger". Its investors include Google. It uses AI. It's taking paying clients. Does Digits show us accounting software's future?
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From clay to cloud
From clay to cloud
So I talk about clay tablets and 7,000 BC. Some of you may know that several thousand years ago, accounting was heavily focused on crops and...
Remote access
Remote access
In his critically acclaimed book from the mid-1960s, The Tyranny of Distance, historian Geoffrey Blainey spoke of Australia as a nation forced to...
Eyes on the software prize
Eyes on the software prize
Accountants are now faced with a growing list of choices to recommend to clients – and will encounter new programs selected by clients...
Exit the password?
Exit the password?
Fernando Corbató, now 87, is sometimes called ‘the man who invented the computer password’, having deployed them at the Massachusetts Institute...
New privacy laws mean accountants should review cloud computing
New privacy laws mean accountants should review cloud computing
Data storage providers offer cloud computing accounting and data management services that provide a hosted environment where business data can be...
Get connected
Get connected
It is both a symptom, and a cause for concern for many in business. Moreover, it is both a verb and a pro-noun, which can be applied to many...
Linkedin: your digital business face
Linkedin: your digital business face
We often think of LinkedIn as ‘social media', as Facebook for business people. That has some truth: LinkedIn can be a productive place to discuss...
Falling from the cloud: Practice management’s new price
Falling from the cloud: Practice management’s new price
Then, in July last year, global software giant Intuit decided to use practice management software to push its own cloud-based accounting service,...
Xero barriers to entry
Xero barriers to entry
I learned it is not about the cloud; the people adopting the technology at the rate of hundreds each day do not really understand where their...
Your choice of futures
Your choice of futures
We all understand the problems manual workers have faced as farms have mechanised and much production-line work has moved to Asia. But as 2014...
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