Accounting Software - Software Company Solves Global Warming, rejects Nobel Prize

Software Company Solves Global Warming, rejects Nobel Prize

Wednesday, 23rd September 2009 - For Immediate Release

Press Release As world leaders prepare for the Climate Change Summit later this year, a London-based software company claims to have the answer to global warming. They say that a single company moving to web-based software saves the same amount of CO2 emissions as generated by two return flights to New York each year.

KashFlow, the company that specialises in jargon-free online accounting software, today claimed on its blog that by moving to web-based software a typical small business can reduce its CO2 emissions by 3.5 tonnes per year.

Web-based software uses less electricity to deliver the software because users all run the software from a central server rather than each having their own. It also means small business can replace computers less frequently as less processing power is needed.

Besides reduced power consumption and PCs lasting longer, web-based software has a number of other strong green credentials including saving on the need to produce and deliver boxes, CDs and thick manuals.

"I'm pretty sure I've just saved the world from global warming." said Duane Jackson, KashFlows Founder and CEO, "But please don't give me the Nobel Prize, it should go to Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web. Its beyond belief that he doesnt have one already"

Earlier this year KashFlow offered their software for free to anyone that could send them software in a box from their old-fashioned competitors which they would then burn on a huge bonfire. The companies plans went up in smoke when a video posted on YouTube showing a Sage box burning was seen by 25,000 people and resulted in a warning from the Environment Agency that they could be fined £20,000 if they proceeded with the unauthorised fire.

Jackson posted on Twitter to say "The blog post is a bit light-hearted, but there's a serious message there. Web-based software is clearly better for the environment"

Links

The KashFlow Blog Article: http://blog.kashflow.com/2009/09/23/global-warming-solved/

YouTube Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dOquN65SaY

Duane Jackson Twitter Page:
http://twitter.com/duanejackson

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About KashFlow

KashFlow is an online tool specifically designed to help owner managers in small businesses manage their accounts. KashFlow's aim is to take the boredom out of managing a company's accounts and to make the day to day tasks easier to achieve so that less small businesses neglect this area.

KashFlow keeps accounts management simple: it requires no installation, software training or prior knowledge of accountancy.

All users benefit from a free, no obligation 60-day trial. The monthly subscription price is £15.99 a month - including free support and upgrades.

Contacts

For further editorial information, contact:

Dominique Gillespie
PR Manager
dom@kashflow.co.uk; 020 7403 0101

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Notes to Editors

In June 2008, KashFlow became the first accounting software package to be certified by PayPal for integration with its payment platform. PayPal and KashFlow now work in partnership to provide a seamless, end-to-end, payment processing and accounting system.

In October 2008 KashFlow won a Business Software Satisfaction award, judged entirely by customer feedback, for the category of small business accounting - beating the likes of Sage 50, Quickbooks Pro and MYOB. Statistics revealed by the awards organisers show that KashFlow has a 70% share of the web-based accounting software market in the UK.

KashFlow has received two rounds of venture capital funding from their now chairman, Lord Young of Graffham. Lord Young is a former Secretary of State for Trade & Industry and ex Chairman of Cable and Wireless.

KashFlow is simple to operate, with users instinctively knowing where to click to perform almost any accountancy task.

Owner managers are able to effectively manage their accounts with no need for software training or prior knowledge of accountancy.

KashFlow has been featured in the likes of the Financial Times, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, BBC Radio and all the leading accounting titles.