Is it Pivot Tables or Age that is puggling my mind?

Earlier today, I told a client I didn't want a late finish next Friday because it was my birthday. I then put the telephone down and it wasn't until about 20 minutes later that I realised that my birthday is tomorrow!

I have narrowed the cause of this bumbling behaviour down to two possibilities:

1. Naturally age is a contender, always front of mind when another year passes, but one would would hope that senility was still a while away at 39;
2. Excessive exposure to Pivot Tables over the last 10 years or so.

My money's on the latter. I'd appreciate any of your confessions of your own bumbling in the comments below both to make me feel better, and to give us all a laugh on a Friday!

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Two personal milestones this week

This week marks two personal milestones for me:

1. I turn 39 tomorrow (Friday), only one year to go until the big 4-0. It's now going to take some serious cramming to hit the 'millionaire by 40' goal!
2. I have only just noticed that the previous post, Do you build your spreadsheets yourself?, was the 100th post on this blog. Not exactly prolific but I am pleased at how the volume of information builds up if you keep at it, and it seems a milestone worth noting (to me anyway).

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Do you build your spreadsheets yourself?

One of the things I have noticed in the first few months of my Spreadsheets by Email business, is how our clients are often senior (and expensive) people in finance (and other fields) who were planning to build the spreadsheet themselves before stumbling across the service. This got me wondering how many of you out there do build your own spreadsheets, and how many use others inside or outside of the organisation.

Please let me know who builds your spreadsheets by voting in the poll at the top-left corner of the blog.

You can also see the results so far - assuming you are not the first to vote!




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A wake-up call for accountants everywhere

I have blogged about cloud computing on the odd occasion previously, and I am convinced that a sea change is occurring that many accountants are missing. New products like Kashflow, Xero, E-conomic and FreeAgent are creating a new market place, with a level of user-friendliness for a small business owner that the likes of Sage can only dream about - all accessible from anywhere with an Internet connection (including your accountant's office).

This post from Dennis Howlett's AccMan blog, should be a wake-up call to all accountants in practice, giving a client's view of how far behind the pace some accountants are.

Make me love you and you will be rewarded

It should make interesting reading for all of us, but may be a little uncomfortable for some accountants in practice.

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