Xero Blog

Welcome to Humans of Xero! It’s an occasional series about some of the awesome humans that work at Xero. We’ll talk a bit about their work, their passions, some fascinating facts, and what makes them tick.

Building and maintaining an ambitious, innovative culture in a company that’s been growing as fast as we have has little to do with chance. In fact, our people and culture is the driving force that has propelled us from one country to more than 180, one subscriber to 1.4 million, and one person’s idea to a global team of more than 2,000 people.

We had another huge year at Fieldays 2018 – with hundreds of people passing through our stand and asking what we can do for their business. No doubt the honey, fresh bread and free coffee helped but we like to think it was our great team and the demos we were giving!

Welcome to Humans of Xero! It’s an occasional series about some of the awesome humans that work at Xero. We’ll talk a bit about their work, their passions, some fascinating facts, and what makes them tick.

Are you a tax time procrastinator? Turns out you’re not alone. With end of financial year looming, we asked small business owners how they’re preparing for the peak tax season. Our survey of 500 Australian small business owners found that when given a choice, the majority (69%) would choose having a meal with their partner’s parents over working on their taxes.

By Chris Vanderkolk, Head of Marketing at Figured. This is Figured’s fifth year at Fieldays alongside Xero. In 2014, the ‘farming in the cloud’ concept came to life at Fieldays. Since then, we’ve continued to see this message resonate with more and more farmers.

Welcome to Humans of Xero! It’s an occasional series about some of the awesome humans that work at Xero. We’ll talk a bit about their work, their passions, some fascinating facts, and what makes them tick.

Walking into Fieldays this morning I was struck by the sheer size of the event. There are 1,400 sites this year and as we walked in we could see queues of people waiting to get in.

The trial balance: It’s a fundamental report that’s as old as accounting – in fact, it was first mentioned by the “father of accounting” Luca Pacioli, way back in 1494! But even timeless classics need a bit of a spruce-up.