Steve
 Lowy

Hey Guys

Hope you are all well where ever you may be. I am currently sitting on the lovely balcony at Rosy’s Guesthouse overlooking Royal Palace gardens and watching the Siem Reap “rush hour”.

This morning started with budgeting! Ahhhhh i hear you cry and yes it is not much fun staring at Excel spreadsheets for hours. Rachel and I worked through the figures that the Guesthouse had historically recorded and how we can use them, and the accounts skills from yesterday, to help create a helpful budget for the guys at Rosys to plan their business for the next year. Read the rest of this entry »

Well Hello all and here is the latest update on the ISTC Skills Exchange (in case you haven’t seen the exchange blog check it out here istc.wordpress.com ).

Today was accounting day … and before I hear you all boo…. there was not an accountant in sight. Rachel and I sat down for run through of their figures, rate strategy and also procedures. Read the rest of this entry »

After the excitement of the morning helping out at the school, the guys from Rosy Guesthouse and I sat down to discuss the future with their website, explained a little about SEO and generally had a really good brainstorm about what the website should look and like and what content it should have in. We also then looked through various back end options that the guys already have to see if it matches what they need etc.

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So an early start to day in Siem Reap with a knock on the door at 730am and off to work we go! I accompanied Simon, who runs Rosy’s Guesthouse with Rachel, to a charity funded school about 15 minutes out of town from the guesthouse.

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