Projecting Xero’s annual report
July 26th, 2010 admin
Topics: AccManPro, australia, ben kepes, business and economy, intuit, saas, software as a service, xero

Once again AccMan sponsor Xero put in a solid performance for 2009-2010, closing out the year with revenue of NZ$3.4 million from a final customer count of 17,000. That was up from NZ$1.1 on 6,000 customers in 2009. This was achieved for a final headcount of 90 compared with 56 the previous year. Xero states it is at break even in its home country New Zealand now with the UK to follow in Q4 2010 and Australia Q1 2011. Overall, the company is expected to…
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