This post was authored by Ryan Lazanis, CPA, CA. In 2013, Ryan founded Xen Accounting, a 100% cloud-based accounting firm. Following its acquisition in 2018, Ryan started Future Firm which provides resources & consulting to ... Read More

At Xero, we believe in celebrating the achievements of our community. And Friday May 24 was certainly a big night for our partners. Held in Sydney, this year’s Australian Accounting Awards saw the industry’s major ... Read More

Fieldays 2019 will be my second time at the event as Xero’s New Zealand Head of Agribusiness and Practice Strategy, and I’m really excited to engage first hand with some of the thousands of small businesses in the agri sector. The ... Read More

At Xero, we’re committed to helping make the lives of small business owners better, so we’re really excited about Westpac’s Business Growth Grants which give Kiwi businesses a chance to accelerate. We recently presented our Xero Small Business Insights data at the Westpac Growth Grants ... Read More

Thanks to Google’s Women Techmakers grant, I was fortunate enough to be one of the 15 recipients to attend the Google I/O conference held in San Francisco in early May. I can certainly say that if you ever get the chance ... Read More

It’s almost the end of the financial year, can you believe it? Time sure does fly when you’ve got your head down working. It’s time to start wrapping things up, and no doubt you want to kick the new year off with a ... Read More

From 1 July this year, Single Touch Payroll (STP) will apply to all employers in Australia. According to the ATO, over half of all Australian businesses employing staff are ‘micro employers’ – businesses with one to four employees – and many don’t use ... Read More

Of all the events we do, the Xero Roadshows are some of our favourites. For us at Xero it’s an opportunity to hit the road and connect with our beloved community up and down the country. And yesterday was no exception ... Read More

To celebrate all the people who volunteer their time to help across the country, we spoke to some of the not-for-profit organisations around Australia who rely on volunteers to make a world of difference. Lastly, we speak to Luke from Liptember, a ... Read More