by Rob Pillans | Mar 19, 2021 | Business Services, Featured Articles, Financial Services, Professional Development
As an accounting firm coach, consultant and mentor one of the questions I am getting from firm owners and managers is what are other firms doing about work from home options post COVID? Unlike some businesses that cannot exist without face to face contact the reality...
by Rob Pillans | Feb 18, 2021 | Business Services, Client Management, Featured Articles, Financial Services
As an accounting firm coach, consultant and mentor I am regularly asked to assist accounting firm owners to grow their firm. In this article I summarise five ways to do that. Interestingly, what I find is that the emphasis is often on growing revenue, and profit is...
by Rob Pillans | Jan 11, 2021 | Featured Articles, Practice Management, Professional Development, Team Leadership
Over many years of working with accountants I have concluded there are many skills that are important for accountants. Putting aside the technical skills, I’ve identified three non-technical skills that I believe are core to the success of most accountants and the...
by Rob Pillans | Nov 19, 2020 | Featured Articles, Financial Services, Practice Management, Team Leadership, Workflow Management
A few of my clients have recently commented that as a result of the pandemic they are thinking about their office space differently. It was also one of the topics I talked about in a vodcast I produced (See it here here. ) One firm owner in one of my groups noted that...
by Rob Pillans | Oct 23, 2020 | Featured Articles, Financial Services, Practice Management, Team Leadership
Succession could be defined as the process by which the current owner/s of a firm transition and handover ownership to new owner/s. When I say handover I don’t mean for free! The usual situation will be a sale of equity to new owners, often on a stepped basis over a...