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MR SLEETER'S NEIGHBORHOOD WITH ROD DRURY - SEASON 1 EPISODE 2

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Recorded DateMarch 15, 2014
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Course LevelBasic
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Rod chats about overcoming difficulties, how to approach staffing, and his vision of the future of accounting. Listen to the words of wisdom flow.

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Doug Sleeter

Sleeter Consulting
Founder, The Sleeter Group
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DougSleeter (@dougsleeter) is the founder and former CEO of The Sleeter Group, an international network of accounting software consultants, and the former producer of SleeterCon, an annual conference and tradeshow for accounting professionals.
 
In 2017, Doug was inducted into The CPA Practice Advisor Hall of Fame in the accounting profession. He was also named to Accounting Today's "Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting" each year 2008 through 2015. In 2013, he was recognized by Small Business Trends with the Small Business Influence Champion award.
 
Doug is a passionate leader of innovation and change in the small business accounting technology world. As a CPA firm veteran and former Apple Computer Evangelist, he melded his two great passions (accounting and technology) to guide developers in the innovation of new products and to educate and lead accounting professionals who serve small businesses.
 
In 2015, he sold The Sleeter Group to Diversified Communications (www.divcom.com) and the company has since become The Accountex Network and the conference has become AccountexUSA.com.
 
Always in search of the next big thing, he is currently focusing on blockchain technology and crypto currency. He believes these technologies will change virtually everything in global commerce.
 
In the early 1990s, Doug was a pioneer in developing the first QuickBooks seminars in the country and has since built the largest group of accounting software consultants in the small business accounting profession. Doug serves on several advisory boards for technology companies and has consulted with numerous industry leaders including Intuit, Sage, Apple, and Adobe Systems.
 
Doug is the author of numerous books and courseware materials including The QuickBooks Consultant’s Reference Guide, and QuickBooks Complete, a college textbook.
 
Doug attended both the University of California Santa Cruz and Santa Clara University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Information Systems. Doug and his family live in Pleasanton, CA. Doug's hobbies include woodworking, golf.

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Rod Drury

Xero
Chief Executive / Executive Director

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Rod is the visionary behind Xero and has been recognized as New Zealand Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013, Business Leader of the Year in 2012, member of the New Zealand Hi-Tech Hall of Fame, NZ Hi-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 and 2007, World Class New Zealander for ICT in 2008 and an Honorary Fellow of the NZ Computer Society.

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The Sleeter Group (@SleeterGroup) is dedicated to helping accountants and small businesses work together by using the most innovative and tested tools/systems to generate greater efficiencies and higher profits. We represent an independent view, separate from any particular company or product, and we evaluate solutions based solely on how they meet the demands of small business owners. We have developed a broad range of "best practices" for proper implementation of small- to medium-sized business accounting software systems, and we act as the most trusted advisors for the accounting consulting community. Our Sleeter Group Consultants Network is a community of over 700 accounting experts who provide consulting services to over 300,000 small-to medium-sized business owners in the accounting software and business process design areas. Sleeter Consultants Network Members provide the critical glue — consulting and implementation services — that connects technology solutions to the needs of small- to medium-sized business clients. In addition to the Consultants Network, resources from The Sleeter Group include reference books, webinars, seminars, an annual Accounting Solutions Conference and Tradeshow, a QuickBooks consultant certification program, practice management tools, QuickBooks teaching systems, QuickBooks assessment exams, a restaurant accounting system, and an accounting solutions Blog. The Sleeter Group was established in 1994 and is based in Pleasanton, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.