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Developing the Best Diversified Income Model for Your Accounting Firm

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Are you looking to accelerate your accounting firm’s growth through diversified income channels? Many firms find that their traditional business advisory services need to perform better, with stagnant revenue growth and slim profit margins. Successful diversification into business advisory services can often feel elusive. With increasing pressure on fees for compliance and transactional services, now…

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Building an Accountability Culture Without the “Baseball Bat”

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Creating a culture of accountability in professional service firms is a significant challenge. Many firms struggle with implementing an effective framework and process for being accountable. Challenges in Accountability A major hurdle is maintaining accountability in director or partner meetings. It’s difficult to hold others accountable when you haven’t fulfilled your own commitments. These meetings…

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Running Effective Advisory Board Meetings: Tips and Best Practices

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What are advisory board meetings? An advisory board meeting is a collaborative and structured gathering where an organisation engages with a group of advisors and stakeholders to seek expert guidance and insights. Running advisory board meetings for clients can be crucial for providing valuable guidance and support to your clients and enhancing the value of…

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Unlock Your Accounting Superpowers

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Australia has been in a per capita recession for several months. Some businesses are thriving, while others, particularly those dependent on discretionary spending, are struggling. As accountants, your skills are critical in both scenarios. The Power of 1% Scenario 1 – Your client’s crushing it Your client’s gross and net margins are holding or increasing,…

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Unlock your Strategy Development Services

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One of the best ways accounting firms can expand their business advisory service offering is to provide strategy development services to clients. Not only does this set the client’s strategic business direction: it offers a variety of additional value-added engagement opportunities. Perhaps the ideal first step is to undertake a strategic planning workshop on your…

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Time for some New Year’s resolutions?

Happy New Year! I hope that your year has been a great success and that you’re not getting lapped. Hopefully your 2022 work is cleared away and ready for the 2023 work to start. If you’ve been on holiday with the kids I hope you haven’t been caught up in the airport chaos. Whether or…

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Are You Targeting Your Ideal Client?

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I have long spoken to many accounting firm partners and team members about defining and agreeing on their ideal client profile. In my mind, an ideal client is someone who finds the perfect solution to their problems or needs in the services that your firm provides. The ideal client will be loyal to your firm,…

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How to Create Sustainable Opportunities

Accountants are fortunate (although not all may agree). Legislation dictates the annual demand for accounting services. This, along with the inconvenience of moving accountants, has provided some degree of disincentive for clients to shift from their incumbent accountant. However, the impact of this disincentive is diminishing. With compliance services increasingly commoditised, a reduced fee is…

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COVID-19 and Your 2021 Business Advisory Plans

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Well, the last ten months have certainly been a challenge….a somewhat unexpected challenge that is! Many firms I have spoken to tell me they have been extremely time poor and have been confronted by how to: Manage staff working at home and associated workflow issues; Deal with multiple client questions, demands and management issues around…

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What lies ahead for Professional Service Firms in 2020?

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This month I thought we would do something a bit different and examine an article from a fellow thought leader and long-term supplier to the profession both in Australia and New Zealand. I recently stumbled across the following article from Dave Birch of smartAR and thought you may be interested in reading it. Some good…

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