John Toon explains DATEV: a cooperative that has run German accounting for decades, from the ledger to practice management and IT. Building on top of it, rather than trying to replace it, is what makes the Limetax approach clever.
Ryan Pearcy knew DATEV mainly as the finance system every German subsidiary insists on, and the one that pushes compliance costs up. His bigger point is the model. A tech company buying firms and changing how they work is coming to the UK, backed by private equity and a new way of running a practice. What if they just buy the firm?
From episode 6.39 of Digi-Tools in Accrual World, with Indi Tatla, John Toon and Ryan Pearcy.
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