What is Success?

What is Success?

Be wary of straight line projections for your firm or business as there is seldom a straight line to success. Consider for example start-up founders who, when facing a potential funder, make projections (often) based on an unrealistic percentage growth each year. The...
Meeting the Challenge

Meeting the Challenge

Developing technical skills or expertise is no longer enough in today’s workplace or professional services firm. Technical skills need to be augmented and supplemented by what we call by the misnomer ‘soft skills’. They enable you to liaise belter with people...
Cryptocurrencies: Be Afraid

Cryptocurrencies: Be Afraid

What is a cryptocurrency and why should we care? Before dismissing it as another fad, consider that Fast Food giant Burger King has partnered with blockchain platform Wave to launch its own crypto-currency in Russia called WhopperCoin. Customers who buy the chain’s...
Why this? Why you? Why now?

Why this? Why you? Why now?

Where is the low hanging fruit for bookkeeping professionals? A majority of firms who we class as high performing firms (download survey study) target existing customers to upsell higher value or advisory services. It makes intuitive sense because questions asked by a...
Partnering for growth

Partnering for growth

It’s no secret that the majority of entrepreneurs loathe doing their own bookkeeping. And many are wary of DIY software solutions which is why bookkeeping firms exist. But as new generations of people go into business or self-employment, the buyers (business...
Beating Disruption

Beating Disruption

There are two types of bookkeeping and accounting firms emerging through the fog of disruptive, technology-driven change. One is the cohort of firms which have sat back over the past few years and watched the tsunami effects of change. The other is the cohort of firms...