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  • Insider’s tips on writing your Will

    Insider’s tips on writing your Will

    By Ben Mason, CEO of Kinherit We all know the number one rule when it comes to Wills is to make sure you actually have one. But aside from ‘get on with it’, what else should you know about writing your will? Here Ben Mason lays out some of his “industry-insider” tips for writing your…

  • Should accountants focus on a niche in 2023?

    Should accountants focus on a niche in 2023?

    By Shane Lukas, AVN Managing Director It’s a recurring question for accountants. Should you focus on a niche – a specific type of client? Or is it better to work with many different sectors, sizes of business, or geographic areas? Our recommendation is to specialise – but with one important caveat. Why accountants should focus…

  • Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards – a night of glitz and glam!

    Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards – a night of glitz and glam!

    By Holly Booker, AVN Administrator It’s not often I go to London. It has to be something really special to get me out of the Midlands, onto a train and into the Big Smoke. The Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards promised to be worth it! Since I started with AVN I have been so…

  • AVN Most Inspiring Accountant Awards 2022 – meet the winner!

    AVN Most Inspiring Accountant Awards 2022 – meet the winner!

    For the first time ever, the winner of the AVN Most Inspiring Accountant Awards is not a UK firm. This year the top prize went to Hazel Bango-Moyo of Primorial Solutions, who is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. AVN is now working with accountants in several different countries and it’s clear that the challenges faced…

  • Most Inspiring Accountant 2022 announced

    Most Inspiring Accountant 2022 announced

    We are delighted to announce the winner of the AVN Most Inspiring Accountant Award 2022. And for the first time ever it’s not a UK based accountancy firm. Johannesburg firm, Primorial Solutions, beat 7 other finalists in a vote by the audience of the popular AVN Accountants Helping Accountants webinar on 20th October.   Hazel…

  • Being a great place to work

    Being a great place to work

    Is your accountancy practice a great place to work? There’s so much more to a job than the job itself. The culture of the business. The way it treats the team. Colleague relationships. All of these have a big impact on how we feel about going to work in the morning. And the evidence is…

  • Winners announced in 2022 AVN Inspiring Accountants Awards

    Winners announced in 2022 AVN Inspiring Accountants Awards

    AVN is delighted to announce the eight category winners in the 2022 AVN Inspiring Accountants Awards, celebrating the best accountancy firms in the UK and beyond.   Each category winner now goes forward to the vote for the overall title of Most Inspiring Accountant 2022. The eight award categories showcase these accountants’ determination to keep…

  • Scope creep and how to avoid it

    Scope creep and how to avoid it

    Scope creep is a major cause of stress for accountants. It’s demoralising and unprofitable – after all, it means you’re working for nothing! And it wreaks havoc with client relationships. So what’s the solution?   What is scope creep? Scope creep happens when your clients think their fee includes work that you haven’t priced for…

  • A strategy for year-long learning

    A strategy for year-long learning

    By Shane Lukas, AVN Managing Director Did you have that back to school feeling last week? (Sorry if you’re reading this in Scotland – you did this ages ago!). However long ago you left school, at the beginning of September I bet you still remember how it felt … that sense of anticipation … feeling…

  • Who are you really? DiSC profiling for accountants

    Who are you really? DiSC profiling for accountants

    By Joanne Wharam, AVN Practice Growth Expert How DiSC profiling works and how the measure of the four factors of personality explains the ‘language’ we speak. I am confident that as an accountant in practice, there will be times when you find it hard to motivate yourself to do certain tasks. You might feel overwhelmed…