by admin | Oct 15, 2023 | Members Forum
There’s more to keeping the books than recording receipts and reconciling accounts in the keeping of the books, yet bookkeepers keep their skills to be strategic mainly on the back-burner. Strategic bookkeepers are constantly think about ways to help their clients...
by admin | Feb 19, 2023 | Members Forum
Do you struggle to manage client expectations? Would it be good to actually exceed client expectations? That would build a stronger trust with your clients. There’s a wide scope in the above questions which includes: • exploring the (obvious) importance of providing...
by admin | Nov 11, 2020 | Articles, Cash Flow & Finance
It’s a pure myth that there exists a market price for bookkeeping services and that you need to accept it. Your challenge is that most business owners are highly price sensitive when it comes to having their accounts produced, for one simple reason: they don’t see...
by admin | Feb 5, 2019 | Articles, Expansion & Exit
Are you a “professional”? Or a “technician”? And does the title matter in terms of your career or business. We have changed due to technology, some more than others – indeed some jobs are being replaced by machines, such as routine administrative tasks and manual...
by admin | Nov 21, 2018 | Articles, Marketing
The World Economic Forum is a lofty and important gathering intent on “improving the state of the world”. It also points us to the skills required in 2022 that render some skills as declining and others growing in demand. Sadly, skills for precision,...
by admin | Nov 7, 2018 | Technology
Australians now spend about half a day each week doing different tasks than someone with the same job five years ago, according to a recent research study. And that is an average with some sectors, like accounting and bookkeeping, at the extreme side of this trend....
by admin | Oct 22, 2018 | Articles, Technology
There are powerful forces at play in the accounting software sector; they will affect all accounting and bookkeeping professionals. Old work practices and traditional ‘tools’ of the trade are being relegated to the dustbins. Readers of the financial pages...
by admin | Aug 15, 2018 | Articles, Marketing
Inside every premium-priced firm is a speciality that enables that firm to charge well above average prices. The comparison with other trades and professions informs us. Plumbers who specialise in high pressure waste systems earn multiple times the hourly rate of your...
by admin | Aug 6, 2018 | Articles, Marketing
Business is about people, it’s about interacting, and it’s about giving yourself to these people, comfortable and confident to do something with you. That’s a sales skill and that will not sit well with many accounting and bookkeeping professionals. Develop that...
by admin | Jul 12, 2018 | Articles, Marketing
Bookkeeping principles are timeless. But what clients are looking for has changed due to automation. This puts pressure on bookkeepers to provide higher value services as business owners have expectation that compliance work can be automated – cheaply.Your job until...
