We're honoured to announce our three hundredth member of this group.  Since we are an association I invited our latest recruit to offer us a quick profile of themselves.  I hope that this example will demonstrate the vigour of those businesses who continue to use this excellent accounting software in spite of the threats from MYOB and Mamut:

'We are a very small and niche promotional prizing agency based in Brixton in London. Although there are only two people who work in the business (me and one other) we work with some very well known household names, mainly in the film industry. We have helped clients put together very niche promotional holiday prizes as part of the promotions for Shrek, Star Trek and Kung Fu Panda amongst others.  We are very excited to be working on the forthcoming Bourne Legacy film.

In a previous life I worked for six months as an auditor.  When I set the business up six years ago I was already trained on how to use MYOB so I could do the company's books. I don't have time to learn a new accounting software system and migrate all our information across.

I am not sure what I would have done if I couldn't get confirmation codes for the business.  I can go on holiday and not have to worry about my files becoming read-only while I am sunbathing!'

Claire Morton, Alchemy-events.co.uk, 300th member of the MYOB Users Ltd