Saturday 25 February 2023 | No. 49
XU Biweekly
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Xero Awards 2023 Finalists THIS YEAR, MORE THAN EVER, WE WANTED TO RECOGNISE AND AWARD THOSE WHO HAD GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
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HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR FINALISTS. OUR JUDGES WERE BLOWN AWAY BY THE VOLUME AND CALIBRE OF APPLICATIONS FOR THIS YEAR’S AWARDS, AND WE WANT TO THANK ALL THOSE WHO ENTERED.
Large
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• Accounts and Legal • BHP • Shorts • National Partner of the Year: • Armstrong Watson • Azets • Mazars
The Xero Awards finalists for 2023 are:
Bookkeeping Partner of the Year:
UK Accountant and Bookkeeper Awards
• Fresh Financials • LJM Bookkeeping • Normans Bookkeeping & Payroll • Accountability Edinburgh
Sole Practitioner of the Year: • Adams O'Rourke Accountants • LJM Bookkeeping • TNG Small Firm of the Year: • EOG Accounting • Linford Grey Associates • Starfish Accounting • Tennick Accountants Mid-size Firm of the Year: • Ashton McGill • Sempar Accountancy and Tax • Valued Accountancy
Ireland Accountant and Bookkeeper Awards Ireland Xero Partner of the Year: • Accountant Online • rda Accountants • Moran and Partners • borgo Ireland Emerging Firm of the Year: • Fluent Virtual Accounting • UK App Partner Awards UK Small Business App Partner of the Year:
Total Xero: • BW Business Accountants & Advisers • KRW Accountants • Thorne Widgery Community Impact: • BW Business Accountants & Advisers • FD Works • Simpkins Edwards LLP Innovative Partner of the Year: • Pillow May • LJM Bookkeeping Ltd • Shorts
• A2X • ApprovalMax • Chaser UK Practice App of the Year: • Ignition • Spotlight • Syft UK Emerging App Partner of the Year: • Capitalise...
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10 years of Ignition: Transforming how professional services do business with clients
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N 2013, IGNITION CO-FOUNDERS GUY PEARSON AND DANE THOMAS SET OUT ON A VISION TO TRANSFORM THE WAY PEOPLE IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND THEIR CLIENTS DO BUSINESS TOGETHER. THAT VISION WAS BORN OUT OF GUY'S OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL ACCOUNTING FIRM AND STRONG BELIEF THERE WAS A MUCH BETTER WAY TO RUN HIS BUSINESS. Fast forward to 2023, over 6,000 accounting and professional services businesses around the world use Ignition to operate more ef-
ficiently, improve cash flow and grow revenue. Ignition has helped its customers do business with over 1 million clients, and processed approximately US$2.7 billion in client payments. We sat down with Guy and Dane to ask them about their journey, from the initial idea that sparked Ignition, to today, 10 years later.
Q: Tell us how it all started… Guy: Ignition (then Practice Ignition) was born out of first-hand pain. It was 2009, I was running an accounting practice, called
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WEEL LAUNCHES NEW PAYMENTS TOOL IN RESPONSE TO HIGH RATES OF EMPLOYEE ‘SPENDING ANXIETY’
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EEL ADDS MOBILE REIMBURSEMENTS TO THEIR PLATFORM TO HELP EASE THE BURDEN OF COMPANY COSTS FOR SMALL SPENDERS Leading Australian spend management platform, Weel, have debuted their newest expenses product — a mobile app reimburse-
ments tool. Earlier in 2022, Weel had uncovered that almost 60% of employees under the age of 24 put off making important company purchases due to anxiety around the expense management process. Further, across all age groups over a third of employees felt dissatisfied with
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