Kellie Parks from Calmwaters Cloud Accounting
Bringing value by doing what you love
Bringing value by doing what you love with Kellie Parks
About the Episode
About the Episode
Transcript
Kellie Parks is a cloud accounting specialist and coach at Calmwaters Cloud Accounting. In this episode, Kellie and Stuart talk about the early days of cloud accounting, the further development of technology and how it changed the life of Kellie and her clients. As an early adopter of remote work, Kellie shares the stories of the adventures that cloud accounting allowed her to do.
Episode Themes
Episode Notes
- Early days in cloud accounting (1:10)
- Lunch invitation from Karbon (2:30)
- Kellie’s background in marketing and branding (4:20)
- Introduction to cloud technology (5:20)
- Entering accounting space (6:30)
- Skier and adventurer (8:00)
- Living on the lake (10:00)
- Stuart and his family (11:20)
- Cloud technology helping the client (14:00)
- Lifestyle benefits for clients (17:00)
- Karbon team moving to the US (18:30)
- Karbon’s offices around the world (20:00)
- KarbonX (22:00)
- Sacking clients (25:00)
- Rehoming a client (26:30)
- Niche service (29:00)
- ‘Five-star’ clients (31:30)
- Rescue work and file cleaning (33:10)
- The panel at Accounting Web Summit (35:40)
- Nomad life (36:20)
- Trip to New Zealand (38:00)
Episode Themes
Episode Notes
- Early days in cloud accounting (1:10)
- Lunch invitation from Karbon (2:30)
- Kellie’s background in marketing and branding (4:20)
- Introduction to cloud technology (5:20)
- Entering accounting space (6:30)
- Skier and adventurer (8:00)
- Living on the lake (10:00)
- Stuart and his family (11:20)
- Cloud technology helping the client (14:00)
- Lifestyle benefits for clients (17:00)
- Karbon team moving to the US (18:30)
- Karbon’s offices around the world (20:00)
- KarbonX (22:00)
- Sacking clients (25:00)
- Rehoming a client (26:30)
- Niche service (29:00)
- ‘Five-star’ clients (31:30)
- Rescue work and file cleaning (33:10)
- The panel at Accounting Web Summit (35:40)
- Nomad life (36:20)
- Trip to New Zealand (38:00)
About the Guest
Kellie Parks is a cloud accounting specialist and accounting coach at Calmwaters Cloud Accounting. Kellie has always been ahead of the curve, adopting cloud technology in her own business in 2009 and successfully migrating all of her clients to Intuit Quickbooks in 2012. Today, Kellie is a member of the Intuit International Writer Network and the FreshBooks Accountant Council and helps hundreds of other accounting and bookkeeping firms by sharing knowledge through her online community, The Workflow Wateringhole, and providing expert app advice, templates, and other resources.
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