Heather Smith

Tools and techniques for better business decisions and practical prompts with ChatGPT for SMEs

Heather Smith is an Accountant and Storyteller who empowers, educates, and supports the accounting community to positively embrace and navigate the business app ecosystem.

Heather is obsessed with how effective automation and integration can produce timely clean data to surface information for brave, fast, data-informed decision making. She produces an Accounting Apps newsletter, podcast, & hosts a community focused on Accounting Apps.

Heather has authored ten accounting books, notably in the ‘Xero for Dummies’ series. She is a technology columnist with CAANZ Acuity magazine, and Accountants Daily and an international speaker.

Heather recently won the 2024 Accounting Thought Leader of the Year award and was recognised on the USA’s Accounting Today’s list of 21 influential figures shaping the future of the accounting industry.

Heather’s community leadership includes roles as Ambassador for Innovation for CA ANZ, Chair of the ACCA’s Global SME Forum, a member of the Global Technology Forum for ACCA and active involvement in the CAANZ QLD Public Practice Forum.

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