What most readers where interested in this year.
There are a couple trends which seemed to dominate the small business course market in 2024 and most of them related to replacing your bookkeeper!
It was the rise of automated bookkeeping services from companies like
- Thriday,
- HNRY, and
- NAB’s Bookkeeper.
There also appeared to be a lot of ambiguity in job descriptions between Office Admin and Business Administration topics.
The other major observation is why did Intuit buy MailChimp and do email marketing companies make more money than accounting software companies?
Here’s our most popular blogs of 2024:
The range of skills and software knowledge for office and business admin employees is widening as they perform more and more of the daily tasks for each business.
A bunch of videos on Youtube or even Udemy is commonly called a course these days so Xero course prices vary widely. Some training company providers create interesting “accreditations” to lure students. In the end you get what you pay for and a real course involves you doing the work for a business – that’s the power of case studies.
Mentor Education advertised heavily and sold lots of courses and most of their students thought they could trust Australia’s accredited training framework – that didn’t end up being the case for thousands of unfortunate students.
Accounting automation has been a buzz word for several years but it now seems to be maturing when NAB and other major banks start promoting their automation features.
Payroll is a very complicated job to manage. It is important for all of our livelihoods and it’s a significant cost and time consuming task for businesses. It goes from hiring staff to tracking their every working hour, lunch break and sick day and more of these tasks are being combined into one software platform rather than a suit of software programs.
We offer free samples so you can get to know us and we get to show you the work involved in creating a proper course with practical tasks and business case studies. There are lots of free samples available so check them out.
Microsoft Excel is such a versatile program that it remains in strong demand even though specialist programs come along to try to make things easier. We have some free samples and hundreds of Excel exercise files that you can open and use to learn Excel.
Intuit bought MailChimp and we delved deeper into the world of email marketing software and how much these companies charge for their software. It’s far more lucrative than accounting software because they charge more as your subscribers increase. This will be an industry to watch in the coming years.
Xero course workbooks now for sale
It was also the first year we started selling the full range of Xero Course workbooks and exercise files. In these challenging financial times it is a cheap way to learn how to use Xero.
