by Richard Messik | Sep 20, 2010 | Cloud computing, Technology
Last week, I was asked at short notice to speak at one of the sessions at the Finance Directors Summit held at Hook in Hampshire. I was asked to speak and chair a discussion on the future of mobile computing and the cloud and in a room of about 30 FD’s from...
by Richard Messik | Sep 6, 2010 | Cloud computing, Technology
I have spent an interesting day at the Speciality and Fine Foods Fair at Olympia where my wife, Marilyn, has been speaking on marketing at one of the small business forums. As well as eating myself silly with all the wonderful samples on offer, I did do some useful...
by Richard Messik | Aug 3, 2010 | Accountants, Cloud computing, Technology
I had an interesting conversation with Jon Stacey of Riley Chartered Accountants.. I first came across Jon’s firm when I read about them on the Google Apps blog where there was a write up on their move to Google Apps and I was interested to discuss with him how...
by Richard Messik | Jul 24, 2010 | Cloud computing, Technology
One of the advantages in setting up my new business, RFM Associates is that I now have the opportunity to practice what I have been preaching about setting up a virtual office. Events have proceeded much quicker than I had originally anticipated and I now have Uzma...
by Richard Messik | Jun 22, 2010 | Cloud computing, Technology
When I qualified more years ago than I care to remember and joined the family firm of Bellman Messik as the third generation of Messik accountants, I rather thought that this was a job for life. As we all know, Life is what happens when you are making other plans and...
by Richard Messik | May 22, 2010 | Cloud computing, Technology
There has recently been a flurry of comment on the AccountingWeb Cloud – Accounting discussion group. Much of it is the same, somewhat depressing, comments from the gainsayers coming up with the same old negative responses to the whole concept of using the Cloud...
