{"id":4971,"date":"2010-06-11T07:55:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T06:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2018-11-07T11:39:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T11:39:11","slug":"uk-accounting-software-market-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/blog\/uk-accounting-software-market-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Accounting Software Market Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with our\u00a0open approach\u00a0as a business, I am pleased to unveil our <strong>UK Accounting Software Market <\/strong>Report.\u00a0For a copy please\u00a0click here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/UKAccountingSoftwareMarket.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK Accounting Software Market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to use\u00a0this report\u00a0or quote from it, you may do so providing you reference and link to the Clear Books website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\">www.clearbooks.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In particular gratitude must go to the three students from The Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge who put together this report over a period of just one month. These\u00a0students were set objectives on the premise that they were acting as consultants to Clear Books, and were then left to carry out their research independently.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I am aware this report is the first ever serious piece of consolidated work on the online accounting market in the UK. That&#8217;s not such\u00a0a surprise in our\u00a0young industry.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting snippets that I picked up were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Estimate that 2m businesses in the UK use accounting software and that\u00a0more than 2m don&#8217;t<\/li>\n<li>UK user number estimates:\u00a0KashFlow (5000-6000) Xero\u00a0(3000-4000) FreeAgent (1500-2000)<\/li>\n<li>The big four desktop accounting vendors between them have UK estimated revenues of just over\u00a0\u00a3200m and\u00a0approximately 1m users.<\/li>\n<li>Quality of product is critical in evaluating IT products<\/li>\n<li>FreeAgent\u00a0probably raised approximately \u00a3800k from recent Iris investment<\/li>\n<li>Clear Books performed favourably against competitors in a usability questionnaire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with our\u00a0open approach\u00a0as a business, I am pleased to unveil our UK Accounting Software Market Report.\u00a0For a copy please\u00a0click here:\u00a0UK Accounting Software Market. 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