Event Date : 22 Nov 2007
The IIA, together with CFO Services and Hook Head Software, is running a breakfast seminar on how technology can ease your accounting headaches. The seminar is free and all are welcome.
Are you a small to medium sized business who has often wondered how to take the pain out of your accounting obligations? Are you struggling to maintain your books in Excel, having difficulties keeping on top of your financial information or having problems communicating that information with your accountant?
This seminar will show you how to implement a secure, online accounting service that automates your accounting process and can issue invoices, statements, balance sheets, expense reports as well as help manage your VAT and tax returns.
This seminar introduces the 'Virtual Accontant' and will show you how to use a secure, online accounting system to simplify the accounting process. The system leverages the internet to provide a common view of your financial data simultaneously to both you and your accountant. It facilitates the production of sales invoices, management of purchase invoices, expenses and salaries. VAT and tax returns can also be automatically generated.
We would like to thank the support of the Dublin City Enterprise Board.
Agenda & Speakers
8.00 am: Registrations - Coffee and Danishes
8.30am: Why online can make a difference to your bottom line - Dermot Nolan, Head of Payments Strategy, Planning & Change, Bank of Ireland Business Banking
8.50am: Are you afraid of the big, bad Accountant? - taking the pain out of your accounting obligations - Fionan Dunne, Director, CFO Services
9.20am: Case Study Presentation: The Virtual Accountant in Practice – Mark Burke, Director, Hook Head Software
9.50am: Panel Q&A Session - your chance to ask the experts
10.15am: An Introduction to the Tech-Check Programme - Brendan Moran, Dublin City Enterprise Board
10:30am: Close
Venue & Directions
The seminar will be held in the Grafton 1 suite at the Westbury Hotel, in Dublin's city centre just off Grafton Street. Parking is available in the hotel's carpark at a fee or in any of the carparks in the vicinity (Stephen's Green, Drury Street, Brown Thomas).
Please contact us with any queries.
About the Speakers
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Mr. Dermot Nolan (Head of Payments Strategy, Planning and Change)
Bank of Ireland Business Banking
Dermot Nolan is a career banker with Bank of Ireland Group, joining in 1992. He has worked in a variety of roles including branch banking, credit, marketing and operations. Prior to his present position, he was Head of Business Marketing and was responsible for marketing to SMEs including the development of a new proposition specifically for Irish start-ups. Dermot joined the Group Payments division in late 2006 and is responsible for strategy, planning and change across all payment products and services.
Dermot has a Marketing Degree from Trinity College Dublin and an MBA from University College Dublin. He is member of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland and the Marketing Institute of Ireland. He is also a Director of the Irish Internet Association and the Irish Payment Services Organisation. -
Mr. Fionan Dunne (Director & Co-Founder)
CFO Services
A co-founder of CFOServices, Fionan is a qualified Management Accountant with over nine years commercial experience in a variety of finance roles. He was formerly Financial Controller with Orbism Group, an international middleware consulting and software development company. Reporting directly to the CEO, he was responsible for all aspects of the finance function including statutory and management reporting, financial planning, treasury and tax management.
Previously Fionan worked with Amdahl UK in the Treasury department and as a VAT specialist with Unisys in London, reporting directly to the Company Secretary.
Fionan also worked for Standard Life Assurance Co. where he was Accounts Manager for Ireland with overall responsibility for financial management, budget development, variance reporting, and management of the financial control and operational accounting areas.
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Mr. Mark Burke (Director)
Hook Head Software
Mark Burke is the founder of Hook Head Software, an IT Commmunity and Jobs Portal specifically designed for IT Professionals based in Ireland. Prior to founding Hook Head, Mark held senior consultancy and engineering positions in Swiss, Danish and Irish companies, both here in Ireland and abroad. Mark has worked mainly in Telecoms, in the areas of Telecoms Management Systems and Value Added Service Provision, however he also has extensive experience in mainstream IT and has broad experience in Distributed Systems and Enterprise Software development. Mark holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from University College Cork.