An efficient accounting team is responsible for ensuring that all transactions are properly recorded in accordance with accepted accounting principles and laws. They provide oversight to ensure accuracy in recording financial data as well as helping to identify areas...
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The 1, 2, 3 Series on Courtesy and Good Manners in an Accounting Firm, from Added Value Corporation – Issue 8: Dress Policy In Your Office Manual, Grooming Policy too?
by Thea Foster | Aug 10, 2015 | Featured Articles, Practice Management
Introduction In your Office Manual there will be a Dress/Attire Policy for the firm, covering the style of clothes it is expected the employees will follow. It explains the need to project a professional image, within the office, plus when outside the office and...
The Evolving Role of the Administrative Professional
by Dale Crosby | Aug 7, 2015 | Featured Articles, Practice Management
Time stands still for no-one, especially administrative professionals. Just like other roles in accounting and advisory firms, the administrator’s role is changing rapidly as firms move from a predominantly compliance focus to a stronger emphasis on advice to clients....
Practice Purchases – Checklist of Items to Collect At, or Post, Settlement
by Magnus Yoshikawa | Aug 6, 2015 | Featured Articles, Latest News, Practice Management
Practice Purchases - Checklist of Items to Collect At, or Post, Settlement The other day someone asked, “what should I collect at, or immediately after, settlement, once the firm purchase has gone through”? We started to build a list of the obvious items and included...
2016 is looking bright
by Lyndal Douglas | Jul 17, 2015 | Featured Articles, Latest News, Practice Management
The 2016 Outlook looks bright for the Australian Accounting Profession despite client fee resistance/sensitivity being one of the top three challenges identified by the profession. Participants of the recent GBU Insight Poll believe the next 12 months will continue...
More Clicks, Tweets and Leads for Accounting Firms
by Dale Crosby | Jul 16, 2015 | Featured Articles, Practice Management
There’s no doubt that more and more prospective clients of accounting firms are seeking information online as part of the process of choosing their accountant and advisor. Whilst referrals still remain the dominant source of new clients for most firms, an increasing...
The 1, 2, 3 Series on Courtesy and Good Manners in an Accounting Firm, from Added Value Corporation – Issue 7: Interruptions
by Thea Foster | Jul 15, 2015 | Featured Articles, Practice Management
Introduction Do you find some people in your office interrupt you with a lack of courtesy and at inconvenient times? Have people been taught when to and when not, to interrupt? In days gone by, young people were less likely to interrupt, I guess because they had been...