International Accounting Forum & Awards 2022

Allinial Global

Company Description: Allinial Global is a member-based association dedicated to the success of independent accounting and consulting firms. Since 1969, this strategic affiliation of legally independent accounting firms has fostered the independence, profitability, and continuous improvement of its members. Allinial Global is two hundred and thirty six members strong and growing, with over 600 locations worldwide generating approximately $4.1 billion in collective revenues. With dedicated regional directors who have extensive connections throughout the Americas (USA, Canada and Latin America), EMEI (Europe, the Middle East, India), Africa and the Asia Pacific regions, members of Allinial Global are committed to providing the most agile, flexible, and client-centric solutions anywhere, anytime.

Company Website: http://www.allinialglobal.com/

Deloitte

Company Description: Deloitte is a leading global provider of audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax and related services. Our global network of member firms and related entities in more than 150 countries and territories (collectively, the “Deloitte organization”) serves four out of five Fortune Global 500® companies. Learn how Deloitte’s approximately 312,000 people make an impact that matters at www.deloitte.com.

Company Website: www.deloitte.com

Moxo

Company Description: Today’s client engagement activities are stuck in the chaos of fragmented silos — requiring significant manual intervention. Moxo provides a OneStop Client Hub for managing client interactions through modern digital automation. Businesses can streamline deadline-driven client interactions, including account onboarding, account servicing, exception handling. Moxo powers client interaction workflows across a diverse set of industries including financial services, consulting, legal, accounting, healthcare, and more. Our customers include companies like Citibank, FIS, Standard Chartered, Raiffeisen Bank, BNP Paribas, and more. Our team has a rich history of pioneering in the engagement space: Moxo’s co-founder and CEO, Subrah Iyar, was the co-founder and CEO of Webex, and Moxo’s co-founder and CTO, Stanley Huang, held senior engineering management positions at Cisco Systems and WebEx.

Company Website: http://moxtra.com/

M-Files

Company Website: http://www.m-files.com/en

Praxity

Company Description: Praxity is an innovative, international alliance of over 700 offices of best-in class independent Participant Firms. Together, they share their combined expertise from strategic locations around the world, leveraging highly-customised business solutions and deep regional understanding – driving outstanding results and returns for clients in over 100 countries. Collectively, our Participant Firms are champions for business globally, with an uncompromising, yet collaborative model for aligning and uniting ambitious, like-minded companies like yours. Independent expert advisers are hand-picked from more than 40,000 professionals – working seamlessly in multidisciplinary teams across international borders to meet every client need. Praxity Participant Firms have the capability, resources and scale to support clients ranging from small ambitious businesses to established global, listed organisations.

Company Website: http://www.praxity.com/

Konsolidator

Company Description:

Konsolidator is a Danish software group with HQ in Denmark and subsidiaries in UK and Sweden. The group has developed a cloud-based software that automates the financial consolidation and reporting process. The software is created and supported by auditors and powered by innovative cloud technology.

With the software Konsolidator Audit auditors can prepare their client’s financial consolidation in a streamlined and digital format while increasing the quality of their work and saving a substantial amount of cost. With single sign on (SSO) auditors get immediate access to all clients in one system with just one login.

Konsolidator Audit integrates with Silverfin and allows trial balance import from Silverfin and export of the consolidated data back to Silverfin.

Company Website: https://konsolidator.com/

Silverfin

Company Description: Silverfin is the cloud platform that makes accountants more successful. It stores data, automates accounting workflows, and makes collaboration easy. But that’s not all. It also gives you the data, tools, and time to deliver the advisory services and insights clients really value.

Company Website: www.silverfin.com

Wolters Kluwer

Company Description: Wolters Kluwer are a global information, software and consultancy provider, specialising in tax and accounting. We support our customers at every stage, giving them the expert knowledge and software that they can rely on to improve their efficiency, navigate change and adhere to the needs of regulators and customers alike. By combining our expert knowledge with our passion for developing future forward technology, we are global leaders at meeting the needs of our customers. We’re experts in providing information, software and services to tax executives who work in complex, compliance-driven environments. Our innovative and mobile technology creates a future-proofed, end-to-end tax and accounting system, to suit your needs. CCH Central is your one-stop shop for tax and accounting compliance and practice management. You can manage your clients’ core compliance work from a single screen with access to their accounts and tax returns as well as document and communications.

Company Website: https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en-gb/solutions/software-tax-accounting

ACCA

Company Description: ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is the global professional body for professional accountants. We’re a thriving global community of 233,000 members and 536,000 future members based in 178 countries and regions, who work across a wide range of sectors and industries. We uphold he highest professional and ethical values. Since 1904, being a force for public good has been embedded in our purpose. Find out more at accaglobal.com

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Ignition

Company Description: Ignition is the world’s first client engagement and commerce platform for professional services businesses, to streamline how they engage clients and get paid. Nearly 5,000 accounting and professional services firms around the world use Ignition to win new business with impressive digital proposals, engage clients with a clear scope of work, and get paid on time by automating payment collection. Ignition also integrates with leading business apps such as Gusto, QuickBooks, Xero and Zapier to automate time-consuming tasks. Founded in 2013 by a progressive accounting entrepreneur to find a better way of doing business, our goal is to help customers grow, be more efficient, and create win-win client relationships. To date, we’ve helped facilitate more than 1 million clients engagements and more than 6.5 million payment transactions. Ignition has teams in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, The Philippines, South Africa, US and the UK, with over 150 employees globally.

Company Website: www.ignitionapp.com

Sterling

Company Description: Sterling Technology (www.sterlingvdr.com) is the leading European provider of premium virtual data room (VDR) solutions for the secure sharing of content, business process automation and collaboration for the M&A, corporate development, capital markets, private capital, banking and legal communities. Sterling has been supporting the capital and M&A markets for over 30 years, and since opening our first VDR in 2010 we have helped customers and users from over 187 countries and 90 industries successfully complete thousands of deals. Sterling was chosen by Nestlé as its VDR service provider for managing Nestlé’s global audit tender in 2019 after almost 70 years of audit by the incumbent firm, with the tender covering more than 750 entities in 180 countries. With offices in six major European financial centres, Sterling is trusted by corporates, financial and legal advisors, real estate and private equity firms to deliver exceptional levels of service on their most critical transactions.

Company Website: www.sterlingvdr.com

ETL GLOBAL

Company Description: ETL – European Tax and Law – is a privately owned, European-cultured professional services firm founded and headquartered in Germany founded back in 1971. Since then, ETL has developed to become the market leader for SME clients in accounting and tax consulting.

ETL GLOBAL, established in 2015 as ETL’s international business alliance, is a euro-centric network of professional service firms acting worldwide with a local service approach for small and medium-sized businesses. Today, ETL GLOBAL is represented by more than 1,300 offices in over 50 countries around the globe. In total over 18,000 people – including at least 13,000 professionals – support more than 330,000 clients all over the world.

Company Website: http://etl-global.com/

INAA

Company Description: INAA is an international association of independent accounting and audit firms, established over 30 years ago to help ambitious accountants and auditors expand their businesses. INAA is based on a vision shared by all its members: making global business personal, and taking personal business global. It’s this vision that drives INAA members towards quality and success worldwide. With 140 member firms across 50 different countries, INAA members will immediately feel at home, no matter where they are. Members enjoy access to a diverse range of accounting experts, and INAA events empower accountants to make the connections necessary for business success. INAA is committed to encouraging business referrals among members, allowing them to expand their client base across borders. Over €1.5 million worth of business has been referred between INAA members, with more than 90% of those referrals turning into recurring contracts.

Company Website: www.inaa.org

LEA Global

Company Website: www.leaglobal.com

Parker Russell

Company Description: Parker Russell International is a leading global provider of audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, tax and related services, established and managed in the United Kingdom comprising member firms in 75 countries across six regions. We are one of the fastest growing and youngest international networks in the world and a member of the Forum of Firms. We work as one unified team, sharing expertise and local cultural understanding to deliver an excellent global professional service in audit and accounting.

Company Website: www.parkerrussellinternational.com

Xero

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Company Website: www.xero.com

Circit

Company Description: Circit is a SaaS auditing platform which enables the automation of audit confirmations with banks, brokers and law firms. In 2019, Circit launched their innovative new product "Instant Confirmations" which brings the bank confirmation time to less than 30 seconds, eliminates the bank processing fee of £25+ and removes the fraud risk associated with the legacy paper confirmation request process. As an FCA regulator approved company, Circit saves time and money for auditors and their clients, while simultaneously reducing operational risk. For more information visit: www.circit.io

Company Website: www.circit.io

Dayshape

Company Description: Dayshape helps professional services firms plan, manage, and adapt. Its AI-powered planning platform optimises engagement planning, resource management, analytics, and risk management. Dayshape makes it easy, through assisted and fully automated scheduling, to assign the right person, at the right time, every time. Headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dayshape has more than 15,000 users across ten countries. Global customers, including two of the Big Four accounting firms, use Dayshape to boost profitability, improve client service, and keep their teams happy.

Company Website: http://dayshape.com/

Xledger

Company Description: Continue to service clients who have outgrown their first accounts package. Xledger is a 100% true cloud SAAS (software-as-service) ERP finance system designed for mid-market organisations. When clients grow, they have more complex needs such as consolidating across entities, managing high transactional volumes, and providing complex and multi-currency reporting. Our enhanced analytical tools equip your clients with access to live multi-dimensional insights directly from their finance system, so you won’t lose clients as they grow. With Xledger, serve twice the number of customers with the same overheads. Our common configuration enables firms to onboard new clients quickly plus service more clients per accountant. Xledger’s advanced platform enables accountants to retain and attract larger, more lucrative clients across many sectors from professional services to not-for-profit, so you can scale your business and achieve higher profit margins.

Company Website: https://xledger.com/

Accounting Influencers Podcast

Company Description: OVERVIEW

Accounting Influencers is the world's leading accounting, CPA and fintech podcast where hosts Martin Bissett and Rob Brown bring you critical insights, best practice, expert interviews, market intelligence and occasional rants on the accounting and fintech world in short, sharp listens on a daily basis.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Its audience is accountants and CPAs, together with the networks, associations, vendors and influencers who lead them, work in them and serve them. With the backing of several trusted commercial partners, the show comes out daily with engaging 'radio show' style news items, insights on 'what really works' and the occasional rant. Twice a week there are featured interviews with accounting profession influencers, disrupters and thought leaders who advise, train, serve and speak into the accounting/fintech profession. Some are experts (commentators, authors, consultants). Others are in business (suppliers, vendors and partners to accounting firms). Topics include leadership, value, winning work, culture, talent, sales, trust, growth, tech, digital, cloud, change, marketing, trends, performance and strategy. To check out the show, go to any podcast app/platform or https://bit.ly/accinfpodcast

ABOUT THE HOSTS

Martin Bissett is the founder of the Bissett Group of companies that provide practice and personal growth communities, content, and continuing education exclusively to the accounting and bookkeeping professions worldwide. Previously he established a high six-figure consulting firm while serving as a keynote speaker with over 100 one-off and repeat engagements to his name, as well as becoming the most published author on his topics of specialism with 11 books including 1 bestseller. Since 1998, Martin has played a major part in working with over 1800 accounting firms in over 40 countries. These projects have led to those firms acquiring over £500m of recurring fees before inflationary increases, referrals and upselling are factored in. He stopped keeping track of this number over 5 years ago. Martin now advises a range of accounting practitioners and fintech companies at board level. Rob Brown is a renowned MC, facilitator and chair of virtual and in-person panels, conferences and events globally for the accounting and fintech profession. He is co-founder of the Accounting Influencers Roundtable (AIR) mastermind group and co-hosts the world's most popular accounting and fintech podcast: Accounting Influencers. Throughout the pandemic, Rob chaired 24 virtual panels with leaders of global accounting networks and alliances to discuss the key issues and challenges. He is retained by several associations and vendors to chair their events and provide high-level interview content for their communities. He is also the bestselling author of Build Your Reputation (Wiley) and his TEDx talk 'The Personal Brand of You' has been viewed 300K+ times on YouTube.

Company Website: http://bit.ly/accinfpodcast