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CEDA report highlights AI & cloud threat to traditional accountants, with Xero and Bean Ninjas thriving

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Gene Tunny

A new CEDA report I attended the Brisbane launch of at BCEC yesterday, Improving Service Sector Productivity, highlights the threat to accountants from machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence (AI), a topic that I posted on last year (see … Continue reading →

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Many accounting & financial services businesses being held back by poor understanding of laws of success

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Gene Tunny

Last Wednesday, at the Brisbane offices of Macpherson Kelley Lawyers, I attended a presentation by Macquarie on its 2015-16 Accounting and Financial Services Benchmarking Report, which is based on survey data collected from 355 accounting and financial services firms across … Continue reading →

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Energy GOCs equity raid a good example of problem with public ownership

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Gene Tunny

I was quoted in the Courier-Mail this morning regarding the $3.5 billion the Queensland Government has withdrawn from equity in its power businesses (see chart above) for the purposes of paying down debt (see Earnings grab quick debt fix, Pitt … Continue reading →

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