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...
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...
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...
Ready for the New Economy?

Ready for the New Economy?

Each year it seems, we are running harder to stay in the same spot. In an end-of-year survey we asked accounting and bookkeeping professionals what were there biggest challenges going forward into 2017. Some said ‘Getting more clients’ others said ‘Keeping up with...
The Disruption Index

The Disruption Index

The Disruption Index tracks change in the bookkeeping services sector, and the broader accounting eco system of suppliers, vendors and app developers. Accounting and bookkeeping services are undergoing disruptive change thanks to a rapid adoption by small business...
Singing from an old song-sheet

Singing from an old song-sheet

Are you singing from an outdated song sheet? Elvis records still sell but today’s more youthful business owners are more likely to be listening to Beyoncé or Shakira. The ‘role’ or the ‘song sheet’ for today’s accountant or bookkeeper has changed dramatically due to...