Cloud Accounting for the 21st Century, 22nd September 2011 at Mimecast, organized by CloudAdvocates.com. The seminar was intended to cut through the jargon to dispel and debunk some of the myths that distort decisions on the benefits of the Cloud. It coveedr advantages, perceived disadvantages, benefits, practicalities and last but in no way least, costs and commitments. Speakers included well known blogger/analysts Dennis Howlett and Phil Wainewright, tax specialist Mark Lee, cloud specialist David Terrar and blogging accountants Richard Messik and Philip Woodgate. Here are the various presentations.

2. yesterday... AccMan

3. today... AccMan

4. AccMan My mission...today

5. AccMan Your mission

6. AccMan ...which means...

7. AccMan Sceptics say.... Finance - boo !!

8. AccMan Hit ‘em with this Finance - yay !!

10. AccMan Is that it? do something you can’t do today “ The company is quite literally a business that would not be possible on its current scale without the cloud. This is what business transformation is really about — not incremental improvements in performance, but being able to do things that simply were not possible before the cloud existed.” Phil Wainewright talking about m62 visualcommunications

11. AccMan The practitioner’s perspective 92% said that they felt SaaS solutions were very secure AccMan survey, 8th June 2011 If it’s good enough for them why not us?

12. AccMan And point out the stupidity of the argument Ranked no.1 in category for most admired companies - Forbes 2011 Online filing is now mandatory (jokes aside about effectiveness) If it’s good enough for them why not us?

14. AccMan On-prem v cloud differences a different way of thinking On-prem Cloud Avoid change Embrace change Lagging innovation Leading innovation IT project Functional review only Long upgrade cycle Short/no upgrade cycle Lack of commonality Lots of commonality

15. AccMan Organisational benefits “ apps not only share the same language but can share the same culture”

16. AccMan What about the social aspect? Updating a project total Creating an opportunity

17. AccMan Large deals notification Dashboard data What about the social aspect?

18. AccMan Even SAP is doing it ! Social data CRM/financial data

20. AccMan My response

21. Dennis Howlett AccMan Thank You !!