Overwhelmed from wearing too many hats? Read this... accountant accounting accounting firm focus owner productivity Sep 11, 2020

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...

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There's never been a more exciting time for small firms, here's why... accountant accounting accounting profession small accounting firms Sep 07, 2020

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...

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This one tip can make you 10x more focused accountant accounting email management task management Aug 28, 2020

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,...

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2 key reasons your team members make mistakes (and how to deal with them) accountant accounting work culture work environment Aug 20, 2020

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,...

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Struggling to recruit? This could be the reason... accountant accounting firm recruitment work environment Aug 13, 2020

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...

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Are you a slave to your email inbox? accountant calendar email task management Aug 10, 2020

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...

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Have your referrals dried up? Try this... accountant accounting marketing referrals social media Aug 06, 2020

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...

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How can you actually pivot in your accounting firm? accountant accounting firm pivot Jul 09, 2020

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...

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Ditch the timesheet! (How to effectively measure profitability & productivity) accountant client satisfaction productivity profitability timesheets Jun 22, 2020

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...

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