Oh 2020, we held such high hopes for you, but you really have not performed as expected!
Although many people would like to forget 2020, no doubt it will be...
COVID-19 Drives Demand For Outsourced CFOs
In recent years, there’s been a strong trend for small and medium-sized business who could not otherwise afford an internal CFO to outsource this role to accountants and other...
Standardised, systemised, streamlined: key business processes you can and should be automating and digitising
While 2020 has certainly thrown us a bit of a curve ball, now that Spring has sprung it’s a matter of weeks until you get a well-deserved break (hopefully!)....
Virtual CFO – Key Challenges in Managing Scope and Fee
A Virtual CFO is a person or a firm that that takes on the role of CFO for a client on a contract basis. Thanks to cloud accounting systems,...
Accounting Business Owner Burnout: The Secret To Overcoming It
When I first started my Accounting Practice it was growing around an average of 30% per year simply from word of mouth only and soon I was working over...
Top 5 tools to power your practice from anywhere
Which productivity improvement project will you implement next?
Your accounting practice has weathered the Working From Home (WFH) storm and you’ve no doubt started to think about what the new...
Why do accounting professionals give away so many services for free?
It makes no sense. It’s actually a form of scope creep.
Scope creep is when the work we do for a client ends up taking longer than we imagined,...
Top 3 tips to successfully automate key business processes
The top three tips to successfully automate key business processes in your accounting practice
If you and your team have been working from home recently, you’ve no doubt uncovered more...
Burnt out and ready to sell? Read this first!
When I first started my Accounting Practice it was growing around an average of 30% per year simply from word of mouth only and soon I was working over...
7 Email Security Best Practices For Accounting Firms
In most accounting firms, email remains the primary communication channel.
It’s easy to think that just because you use email passwords or even a password management tool, you’re safe from...
10 great reasons to have systemised, standardised, documented work practices
As an accounting firm coach and consultant who gets to see under the bonnet of a lot of accounting firms, I remain convinced that the profession has an endemic...
Reacting to coronavirus: Two models that could help us
Clearly the Coronavirus has meant massive changes to how we work and live our lives. I’ve come across two models you might find helpful as we all adjust to...
Top 5 ways to create customer satisfaction
A customer-oriented organisation places customer satisfaction at the core of each of its business decisions. An organisation’s approach to sales and customer relations are the deciding factors of customer...
6 Ways to Reducing your Operating Costs
Operating costs are those required for the day-to-day maintenance and administration of your business.If you are seeing plenty of sales coming through but your actual revenue is only enough...
Small Business Survival Tips: How to secure cash flow, according to industry experts
When Receipt Bank spoke to Michele Grisdale, one of our partners in Australia, one thing stuck out.
“The message I am relaying to clients is simple. Cash flow is...
How to develop a vCFO Practice – Easier said than done!
Digitisation and financial analytics in a fast-paced world are transforming the traditional CFO role. The owners of SMEs now have real time access to financial information in a way...
