So when you're an accounting firm owner, you wear many hats.
You're the sales director, you're the marketing director, you're the operations director, you're the HR director, you are the business development director, and so on and so forth. It can be very overwhelming, and difficult to know...
If you're an accountant, what stage do you think the accounting profession is in? I think we're in a really exciting place at the moment, but actually it's, it's a mixed view depending on which sector of the accounting profession you're in.
I think the likes of the big four, the big 10 even are...
So do you find that you're constantly busy? You get in the morning to the office or you open up your laptop and you've got emails to clear.
You clear those emails and then, more emails come in and then you've got to clear those, and you spend most of the day writing emails, responding to emails,...
So how do you react when one of your employees, one of your team members, in your accounting firm, makes a mistake? Do you come down on them like a ton of bricks? Or does the superior in charge, the senior, do the same with the juniors if they make a mistake? Or are you quite forgiving?
You see,...
So one of the big challenges that I hear from accounting firm owners is that it's really hard to find the right people.
I hear the same from clients of my accounting firm that recruiting the right people is so difficult. Well, my question back to that would be, are we the right leaders? Have we...
Do you find that you struggle to focus on the stuff that you need to get done and constantly distracted by emails, by notifications, by phone calls coming in?
Well, you're not alone and I came across a technique that I have implemented that has massively helped with productivity and I wanna share...
If you're an accountant at the moment, you're probably drowning in work. Heck, you probably don't have much time for marketing. However, you'll probably also find, potentially, that the number of enquirers you're getting has reduced and that's probably because, people aren't interacting socially...
So we'll have heard of the current buzzword at the moment which is pivoting. It's that cool word that's going around during this time as to how we can pivot our business to compensate for the loss of income from our traditional channels.
So how, for example, a restaurant business can pivot...
If you're an accountant do you still use timesheets in your practice?
In my last mentoring session I did a poll. There were about 50 accountants there and more than half said that they still used timesheets in their practice.
Now the vast majority don't use timesheets for billing purposes. So...