Xero Blog

In what has been a turbulent year for many small businesses around the region, we wanted to take this opportunity to recognise some of our exceptional accounting, bookkeeping and corporate secretarial partner firms. 

To celebrate reaching the milestone of supporting one million subscribers across Australia – the Xero team is turning a spotlight on some of the people who’ve made it all possible. From our earliest customers and advisors to the employees and app partners who’ve been there along the journey, we explore how they too have evolved and adapted over the years.

To celebrate reaching the milestone of supporting one million subscribers across Australia – the Xero team is turning a spotlight on some of the people who’ve made it all possible. From our earliest customers and advisors to the employees and app partners who’ve been there along the journey, we explore how they too have evolved and adapted over the years.

To celebrate reaching the milestone of having one million subscribers across Australia, the Xero team is turning a spotlight on some of the people who’ve made it all possible. Like Xero, our customers, advisors, app partners and their employees who’ve come along on the journey, have evolved and adapted over the years.

It’s been a difficult year for many small businesses in the UK. They have had to contend with challenges around COVID-19 as well as uncertainties associated with Brexit. And that’s before we take into account upcoming changes to Making Tax Digital (MTD).

The arrival of COVID-19 has transformed the lives of small business owners across the country. In Victoria, under shifting waves of lockdown restrictions, many have seen sales plummet and their doors temporarily close.

Written by guest author – Heather Smith FCCA, FCA, FICB. Heather is also an author, writer, speaker and small-business consultant, as well as a Xero platinum practice partner. The Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants combined forces to release a Professional Insights report – Careers in small and medium-sized accountancy practices.

Coming soon – customise chart of accounts templates for your region to suit your practice and your customers.  This functionality will be available to our partners in the following countries where, earlier this year, we released regional chart of accounts templates: Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Singapore, and South Africa.

As one of only four Aboriginal people to run their own accounting firm in Australia, Darwin-based Sarah Hyland is the Founder of Together Business. Her values-aligned practice helps small businesses, not-for-profits and social enterprises to merge passion with profit in order to bring benefits to the wider community.