Bringing value by doing what you love with Kellie Parks

Accounting Leaders Podcast

Kellie Parks is a cloud accounting specialist and coach at Calmwaters Cloud Accounting. In this episode, Kellie and Stuart talk about the early days of cloud accounting, the further development of technology and how it changed the life of Kellie and her clients. As an early adopter of remote work, Kellie shares the stories of the adventures that cloud accounting allowed her to do.

Together they discuss:

• Early days in cloud accounting (1:10)
• Lunch invitation from Karbon (2:30)
• Kellie’s background in marketing and branding (4:20)
• Introduction to cloud technology (5:20)
• Entering accounting space (6:30)
• Skier and adventurer (8:00)
• Living on the lake (10:00)
• Stuart and his family (11:20)
• Cloud technology helping the client (14:00)
• Lifestyle benefits for clients (17:00)
• Karbon team moving to the US (18:30)
• Karbon’s offices around the world (20:00)
• KarbonX (22:00)
• Sacking clients (25:00)
• Rehoming a client (26:30)
• Niche service (29:00)
• ‘Five-star’ clients (31:30)
• Rescue work and file cleaning (33:10)
• The panel at Accounting Web Summit (35:40)
• Nomad life (36:20)
• Trip to New Zealand (38:00)