@surfersteve. Um. I work at an accounting firm and its not so much that we are ignorant of technology and we want to keep our clients in the stone age. Its more that we are not programmers and developers and want to make sure that our clients have stable and proven platforms to manage their data etc. Cloud based applications have finally moved into that realm of trustworthiness and offer many advantages over the previous desktop and paper based systems that were the staple for so many years.
I am sure that you know what you are talking about and that you see the advantages of the systems that you are proposing, however I do not, as I don't really understand one word you are saying. And in general our clients are even further away from understanding the technology available.
The other thing is that we are not pushing the aspect of tax and compliance accounting on our clients as we know that they can meet most of these obligations themselves if they chose to make the effort. We are more about helping them to use the information that they have available to them now in real time to drive smarter business decisions. "Added value services" to use an industry buzzword.
If you are selling something you may need to get a marketer to put it in terms that your potential customer base will understand. I had to look up Abstract Accounting and I still don't really know where you are heading with this.
Does any of this have any actual bearing on the Xero share price?