by admin | May 25, 2017 | Articles
Many over-educated people are working as baristas because their dream jobs are being automated. Experienced accounting and bookkeeping professionals need to be alert but not alarmed – yet! Proactive responses, such as upskilling, are available to anyone but threats...
by admin | May 10, 2017 | Articles, Marketing
The ‘silver bullet’ for any professional services firm is a regular flow of leads. Few accounting and bookkeeping firms take an ‘active’ role in generating leads; most rely on referrals and organic clientele coming through the door. Unfortunately this is a passive...
by admin | Apr 20, 2017 | Articles, Cash Flow & Finance
“It’s pretty close to extortion really.” These words spoken by Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, Kate Carnell, refer to the pattern of multinational giants pushing out payments to to small businesses and then offering the same businesses loans...
by admin | Apr 5, 2017 | Articles, Technology
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...
by admin | Mar 22, 2017 | Articles, Marketing
It can be a rude shock to an accounting or bookkeeping professional to be confronted with a client who leaves or who wants to go DIY. It may be about cost or it may be about taking the role in-house. Receiving such news is never nice but it is a reminder that the...
by admin | Mar 9, 2017 | Articles, Technology
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...
