Podcasts about bluehub

In this episode of The Digital Manufacturer, host Mark Flynn is joined by Matt Flanagan, Managing Director of BlueHub. They discuss the digitisation of operational systems and supply chains for SMEs in e-commerce, wholesaling, and manufacturing. Matt shares insights on cloud-based solutions, implementation strategies, and the future of digital transformation in the SME sector.

Why on earth, would you take a blind bit of notice of a technologist talking about Humanise The Numbers for an accountancy practice like yours? Well, over the years, Matt Flanagan from BlueHub has built a reputation for really knowing his onions when it comes to the technology, but because he's helped so many firms install, implement, and habitualise technology across their firms, he sort of knows what differentiates the best firms from all the other firms in the profession. So why not join Matt and I on this Humanise The Numbers podcast, and seek out the one or two things that you can implement in your firm, so that you transform the performance of your team, the performance of your firm as a whole, but also maybe even transform the performance of one or two of your clients too.I hope you get a chance to listen to Matt, I loved the discussion. He's so down to earth, so practical, it's definitely worth a listen.

This episode features Robert Davidson a qualified accountant with a rich background that includes playing professional poker for 4 years! With his extensive experience in the industry, and having worked within the Big 4 firms,he started Appacus App Advisory with Matt Flanagan and David Robinson at BlueHub in 2019. Their aim is to help accountants and their clients bridge the gap of understanding between operational and financial systems, enabling them to have maximum control over the often overwhelming app spaces, allowing the to future-proof their practices. Robert is an advocate for cloud accounting and having planned and managed the cloud rollout for a successful national accounting firm in Scotland, its safe to say we have the one of best on this episode to shed further insight! We covered: How a cloud visionary saw what was coming for cloud accounting a few years before everyone else The parallels between professional poker players and professional accountants Is a cloud accounting specialist the best way for firms to go? The complexities accountants face in differentiating between all the different apps when advising clients The skills accountants will need going forward when it comes to apps and technology The current problems: Why accounting source systems like Quickbooks, Sage and Xero might not be the most important system for a business client The accounting app landscape for accountants and their clients is overwhelming - one vendor may offer 2000 updates a year Many accounting firms are lagging with cloud accounting because they don't fully understand the benefits Many accountants feel like they need to know 120% of everything before they give an answer The mistakes accounting firms make when doing app advisory for their clients The required skillset of an accountant is changing rapidly to incorporate the advance of technology The benefits of cloud accounting: Appacus is a community of forward-thinking firms to share best practice on apps and integrations The technology available today is making compliance much quicker and advisory more powerful for accounting firms Advisory for accountants is not management accounts and dashboards - it's the interpretation of that information For accounting clients, advisory is only value if the client can understand it and it helps them make decisions Accounting cloud apps can bring client engagement, sales processes and onboarding down from months and weeks to days Apps are simply tools to solve pain points, provide information and help people make decisions Big Takeaways: Accountants - it's better that you go to your clients with suggestions than the other way around. The worst advice about app advisory that finds its way into the accounting market We are just touching the surface with app advisory - so many more are coming out! (https://bdacademy.pro/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/robert_davidson.png) When he’s not working, Robert loves football, walking his rescue dog Mia, travelling and meeting new friends. You can reach him here... Robert on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-davidson-ba-fcca-☁

The Spring Budget saw Chancellor Philip Hammond announce a one year deferral of Making Tax Digital (MTD) obligations for smaller unincorporated businesses and landlords until April 2019. While the move was broadly welcomed by businesses, accountants and representative bodies, what do the government's concessions actually mean, and how much of a relief are they actually going to be? Joining the AccountingWEB podcast to get to grips with the announcements are Paul Aplin, tax partner at AC Mole and Son, AccountingWEB global editor John Stokdyk and Mark Purdue, Product Manager - Tax Products at Thomson Reuters. We are also joined by Matt Flanagan, managing director at cloud transformation firm BlueHub, who will be outling what firms are (and should be) doing to prepare for MTD.

In this episode, Matt Flanagan of cloud integrators BlueHub shares insights into the latest developments in cloud accounting technology.

I had a cushy corporate job as a Project Manager at Cap Gemini. The people were great, the role was enjoyable & I had a secure career. As is the nature of the corporate structure (and my impatience), my career progression was not at the pace I wanted. This frustration led to a conversation with an old friend over a BBQ and a beer, which resulted in us both quitting our jobs and starting a company. The next day was quite the hangover… We purchased BlueHub a Software Development and Integrations company. Up to this last year, our focus was on bespoke development until we made the move to Xero. BlueHub focused on software development for over ten years. The cost of bespoke priced us out of smaller businesses. We began using “off the shelf” cloud products to manage BlueHub. We started using Xero and WorkflowMax. Once we saw how good these cloud-based systems were, we asked ourselves; “Why are we reinventing the wheel?” We started testing a range of Xero Add-ons & cloud systems, re-marketing to lost clients and spread the word of affordable Cloud. The uptake was incredible! We found a solution that cut the costs, sped up the delivery and increased the amount of people we could help. Now we help clients across sectors find, set-up and integrate cloud systems. From our past, we are able to assist users with complex integrations. www.bluehub.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/BlueHubSolutions @blue_hub https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluehub-solutions-ltd- https://plus.google.com/+BlueHubSolutionsLtdPriorslee/posts http://www.bluehub.co.uk/blog.cfm