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Being a Bookkeeping Buddy Means Being Part Of A Community

Alison Mead

CREATED BY ALISON MEAD

Published: 10/11/2025 @ 09:01AM

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I created my Bookkeeping Buddy community last year to offer a higher level of support to bookkeepers across the country, and it really has turned into a community. At a recent Accountex London exhibition, two of my Bookkeeping Buddy subscribers met up and enjoyed their day ...

Bookkeeping buddy, Numbers and spreadsheets galore, Together we thrive!

Bookkeeping buddy, Numbers and spreadsheets galore, Together we thrive!

My Bookkeeping Buddy subscriber Jenny recently emailed me about her trip to Accountex which ran in London from the 14th to the 15th of May. She'd heard about the exhibition and had asked if any other subscribers were attending so they could meet up.

After being particularly excited about watching a keynote presentation by Natasha Everard, she told me she learned a few things about her tech stack, particularly focusing on Briefcase and XBert.

It was after the keynote that she met up with another Bookkeeping Buddy subscriber called Jane and spend time wandering around the stands, discovered the very latest AI and bookkeeping software as well as a range of other timesaving tools that can help her improve services to her own clients.

She told me that she really enjoyed wandering
around and chatting with Jane!

The standout keynote for her was called "Is AI just hot air?" presented as a debate between industry leaders John Took and Ryan Pearcey. Jenny sided with John, who agreed that AI will certainly disrupt the accounting and bookkeeping sector, so we need to embrace it now.

Jenny told me, "I don't know if it will fully take our jobs yet, but change is certainly here". And that got me thinking about how much AI is going to change our industry too.

I'm so pleased I created my Bookkeeping Buddy subscription. I've met some amazing bookkeepers, including both Jenny and Jane, and it was fabulous to hear that the community spirit has really paid off with them meeting up and enjoying Accountex together.

Until next time ...


ALISON MEAD
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About Alison Mead ...

Alison Mead 

Alison loves bookkeeping and supporting bookkeepers. She has been helping clients to be better bookkeepers in Sage 50 for over 24 years and has been Xero Accredited in accounts and payroll for a number of years too.

She specialises in a very unique hand-holding method of training, helping bookkeepers and business owners to use their accounts software as and when they need support in setting up and producing their invoices, reports and financial information.

Alison combines her role at Silicon Bullet with her Forever Living network marketing businesses and is often to be seen at business networking meetings as she likes to keep busy.

You know what they say: if you want something done well ask a busy person!

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