Future Proofing Your Livelihood

Future Proofing Your Livelihood

What can accounting and bookkeeping professionals learn from progressive law firms? Or, put the premise of the question in another way: how can accounting and bookkeeping professionals future-proof their practice or indeed, their livelihood? A report released by the...
Measure Your Worth

Measure Your Worth

It can be a rude shock to an accounting or bookkeeping professional to be confronted with a client who leaves or who wants to go DIY. It may be about cost or it may be about taking the role in-house. Receiving such news is never nice but it is a reminder that the...
Tipping Point

Tipping Point

Tipping point, by definition, is the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place. Mass adoption of digital technology across all sectors of financial services has left behind those who...
Cold Calling Sucks!

Cold Calling Sucks!

Cold calling sucks. Let’s face it, as professionals we think it’s beneath us to pick up the phone and cold call a prospect. The alternative however is worse: waiting for the phone to ring or, even worse still, is the referred prospect whose first question is “What’s...
What Business Are You In?

What Business Are You In?

Everyone loves paper; it’s tactile and appealing. But it’s also so yesterday! “Doing the books” cannot mean –literally – handling paper, be they print outs or receipts or paper invoices. For sure, most practitioners work towards being paperless but too few operate a...