Xero CEO Rod Drury's presentation from Xerocon NZ 2014. Xero is beautiful online accounting software that connects small businesses and their accountants together in the cloud.

1. Beautiful accounting software

2. Strategic update
Rod Drury, CEO, Xero

3. Mind blowing at #xerocon today!
Looking forward to a whole year
long of buzzing and inspirations!
Thanks Xero – @JCCA_NZ
#Xerocon

5. Customers
Total partners
250,000 10,659

6. 2013 highlights
Cash to invest
$221m
as at 31 Dec 2013
Training & sales events
2800+
72,000 attendees
1 Jan 2013 – 31 Dec 2013
Service availability
99.99%
1 Jan 2013 – 31 Dec 2013
Staff
600+
as at 31 Jan 2014

7. 300+
new Xero’s
in 12 months

8. New global leadership
Chris Liddell
Board Chairman
General Motors
Microsoft CFO
Bill Veghte
Peter Karpas
Director
CEO, North America
Executive VP & GM
at HP’s Enterprise Group
VP & GM of North America
for SMB at Paypal
20 Years Microsoft
CMO Intuit

9. 93 Green Street - Google Maps
Offices around the world
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Brisbane
Los Angeles
Sydney
London
Canberra
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10. Org groups
& favourites
History notes
Purchase Orders
Bank feed self
provisioning ASB, TSB
Files
Payment gateways
Updated GST return
Native
iPhone app
Multiple user roles
WIP ledger
Inbuilt
calculator
Multiple contact
email addresses

11. New Zealand
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12. Hi-Tech Company
of the Year 2013

13. Hi-Tech Exporter
of the Year 2013

14. Xero TV

16. Verified CPD
for Xero training webinars

17. 90,000+
NZ paying customers
NZ Partners
2,500+

18. New NZ leadership roles
Victoria Crone
NZ Managing Director
Tarryn Brent
NZ Marketing Manager
Grant Anderson
Head of Accounting

19. Banking
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20. NZ Invoices
Total for
Sent
Received
10.8m
9.2m
40%
800,000+
$16.6B
of invoices sent online
$13.4B
unique online invoice

21. Get paid faster
44
36
Days
28
20
2011
2012
2013
2014

22. Leading the charge

23. Provisioning inside Online Banking

24. Send payment instructions directly to online banking

25. Direct bank to bank payments

26. Government
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29. Xero Farming
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30. Xero Farming
Single ledger for
the rural sector
Rural Bank
Feeds
Farming add-on
software
EDI platform
for rural
Livestock
reconciliation

31. Xero and Farming together
Stock reconciliation journal
Bank fees
Livestock count
Livestock schedule
AP invoices
Farming
Rural invoices
GST returns
Financial statements
CoA, unprocessed stock transactions

32. What you should be
thinking about…
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33. Business is mobile

34. Google’s impact on Small Business

36. Profiles. Your directory

37. total exports
services exports
$60B $14B
Source: Statistics New Zealand

38. @greg_tuckwell
One of the best things about @xero
is the amount of extra time I can now
spend on “official business” !!

39. Design your lifestyle
• 100% Cloud
• 105% higher fee per client than average
• 11% productivity gain
• Write-offs – a thing of the past
• Work when you want, where you want
Ed Read, Rightway

40. The time is now