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Welcome to the Digi-Tools in Accrual World Podcast - your place for accounting tech news! This episode is sponsored by FYI, the new practice management challenger, John and Ryan bravely soldier on without Indi to keep them in line. They dive deep into Xero's new API-like MCPs, discuss the eye-watering $2.2 billion valuation of Penny Lane, and share updates from a huge week of product releases - from FreeAgent, Intuit TaxCalc Joiin, Workflow Max and Countingup. 00:00 Intro 02:49 App News ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 02:52 Xero adds MCP server for smarter integrations 08:34 Pennylane doubles valuation to $2.2bn 11:27 FreeAgent rolls out CIS features for contractors 13:49 Intuit adds project tools to enterprise suite 16:39 TaxCalc bridges the MTD spreadsheet gap 25:32 Xero and Sumday partner on free carbon accounting tools 28:20 Countingup introduces new product features 30:55 WorkflowMax shares latest product updates 33:39 Joiin unveils new features in ‘Joiin Unwrapped' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 37:11 From Outsourced Finance Provider to Partner: Winning Against the In-House Trend: Xledger 47:29 Outro
Today, Rebank co-host Aman Ghei is joined by Seb Wallace, an investor at Triple Point, an early stage UK venture capital firm that has invested in companies including LendInvest, Credit Kudos, CountingUp and many more. In this conversation, Aman and Seb discuss strategies for remote seed investing, the skew they’re observing in terms of how venture money is flowing, startup opportunities Seb sees in insurance and capital markets and more. To subscribe to the Rebank newsletter, including insights, essays and written transcripts of all new episodes, please visit www.bankingthefuture.com. Thank you very much for joining us today. Please welcome, Seb Wallace and Aman Ghei
Registration of a UK private limited company creates a flurry of thoughts about PR, an experience of the CountingUP challenger bank, and an unexpected opportunity with HSBC.HSBC, like all banks I imagine, has a backlog due to the Bounceback loan, 110,000 applications in a matter of weeks. My experience of getting a bounceback loan from HSBC was brilliant - quick & efficient. I was impressed.As I went to register a new company bank account I received a letter from challenger Bank + App Counting Up. This prompted me to think about what makes customers switch providers and what role PR can play.Listen to what Hermann Simon, considered by many to be the father of modern pricing theory and author of ‘Confessions of a pricing man’ says about value and secondary value.In his words lie the PR challenges that companies of all sizes face, and also the answers to how you can market goods with higher prices and have your customers loving you for it.Listen to this and our other episodes to get a high-level view and practical level tools for getting noticed for free.Please visit our blog post on PR for business please visit our site:https://www.eastwestpr.com/blogs/I also talk about SPEAK|pr - our 5 Step Methodology for entrepreneurs to manage their own PR. Do please come and download a free copy along with our Technology Applications Director with over 100 free marketing apps listed. http://www.eastwestpr.com/speakprSubscribe to our newsletter hereFind us on Twitter @eastwestprEASTWEST Public Relations Group was founded in Singapore in 1995 and has a company in China and the UK. Jim James is an award-winning British entrepreneur who has spent the past 25 years building businesses using PR, whilst running a multi-office Agency serving over 500 clients.Please Subscribe to the show Also available on Apple Itunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts and Heart FM.Support the show (https://www.eastwestpr.com/podcast-speakpr)Support the show (https://www.eastwestpr.com/podcast-speakpr)
Best on Ground Philadelphia bans cashless stores Anthony Pratt's best on social media Qantas CEO, Alan Joyce, responds to 10 year old boy's handwritten letter Young kids starting businesses Resurrecting the Dead Horse Theory Worst on Ground Shoes of Prey went in to liquidation - when you listen to your customer, but your customer doesn't actually know what they want. Australia's Super funds legacy systems run on spare parts from eBay, 1950s programs 'Overnight success is a farce': Aussie founder sells startup last valued at $25.4m to American Express The battle for work/life balance is lost. The war for device/non-device balance has just begun. Kmart employees forced to join industry super fund Select Committee into Fair Dinkum Power Challenger bank, Countingup, launches invoicing from their smartphone app Indepth: You don't HAVE to do advisory. Something grinds our gears. And that something is: Generic conversations about accountants having to do advisory, from people who've never done it. It comes from this idea that because advanced use of technology means that it takes a lower amount of time to do traditional compliance work. It stems from a line Xero used to tout, 'Compliance is dead, you have to do advisory'. What's wrong with the way advisory is being spoken about? About Us From the Trenches is brought to you by Paul Meissner from Freedom Mentoring and David Boyar from Sequel CFO. Proudly sponsored by BGL.
To open our latest podcast, we share the great news that Funding Circle has invited BLS to join its Business Champion Programme. This is in recognition of the quality introductions we have made to them, adherence to their guidelines and our knowledge of the marketplace. So how will our inclusion to the Programme benefit our clients? More developments in the mobile banking industry with the announcement from CountingUp that it has now launched its Business Bank Account. We look at how the service differs from other mobile banking apps on the market. To close this edition, we review two surveys from Bibby Financial Services and the Institute of Directors which reveal that business confidence continues to recover from recent low points. However, businesses still see a number of challenges facing them when it comes to growth.
For many small businesses, banking and bookkeeping are their least favoured tasks. To open this Bulletin, we look at a new mobile-only bank, CountingUp, which has opened its virtual doors with a small business banking solution combining banking and bookkeeping in one app. The availability of unsecured business loans from alternative finance providers has been a major boost for growing businesses. One such provider was Ratesetter, until their surprise announcement that they are pulling out of the unsecured business loan market. Finally, to close this Bulletin, we look at the continued fallout from the Carillion collapse. Focus is now turning to the impact late payment is having on small businesses. In the Carillion case, questions are being asked as to what is the point of voluntary programmes, such as the Prompt Payment Code, when larger companies can easily ignore it? Is it finally time to get tough on late payment?