Twinfield blog

On the face of it, the dynamic world of social media and the traditionally conservative, structured world of accountancy seem poles apart. Tweeting, sharing multimedia content and collaborating online hardly sound like features that would add value for figure-hungry clients or the firms that serve them. But just as the public is now being given [...]

The accountancy market is in a state of flux – squeezed by the trend towards lower priced book-keeping services at one end and the push into the mid market by the Big Six at the other. But as the UK’s SMEs brace once more for a tough 12 months, there is a massive opportunity for [...]

The truth is out; Twinfield has been acquired by Wolters Kluwer. The acquisition is in line with Wolters Kluwer’s strategy to expand its portfolio of products and services.  for the finance and business professional. It is a sign of the times that they have acquired a completely new business model: subscription-based online accounting. It is [...]

I fondly recall the memories I have of my grandparents’, Grandma & Grandad Kwakernaat, own grocery on the high street in Nijmegen, Holland and of my Grandad’s little kiosk at The Canisius Hospital in the city centre. It made my day whenever I was allowed to help out with little jobs in the kiosk or [...]

I recently started to organise a 10 year re-union for a rowing crew who raced at the Henley Royal Regatta.  We live all over the place (one person is even in Hong Kong these days) and we’ve hardly seen each other in the last decade, so where to start?  I decided to create a Facebook [...]

Maintaining financial accounts is a necessary evil; at least that is how it’s perceived by many entrepreneurs within the small-to-medium business community. Nonetheless, accounting records contain a wealth of information that, when used in the right way, could readily help generate extra income. The way in which you carry out your bookkeeping or accounting can [...]

Yesterday, I took part in a round table discussion organised by SaaS4Channel in the Netherlands. It’s a platform, established by PartnerPerformance, for industry peers to exchange views about Software as a Service and Cloud Computing. During the meeting questions were posed to stimulate discussion . How much of an enabler for specialisation in a specific [...]