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  • AVN accountant wins Entrepreneur of the Year Award

    AVN accountant wins Entrepreneur of the Year Award

    We’re so proud of AVN accountant Hazel Bango Moyo! She’s the winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year in the 2023 Women of Stature South Africa Awards – a phenomenal achievement to add to her 2022 AVN Most Inspiring Accountant Award. The WOS Awards focus on women who mentor and empower other women to have…

  • Worrying about work keeps 45% of UK accountants awake at night

    Worrying about work keeps 45% of UK accountants awake at night

    A survey of 1034 UK accountants has found that 45% are kept awake at night worrying about work – and that even more are unhappy with their fees, their income and their work-life balance. Results from the survey show that a staggering 84% of respondents aren’t certain they’re charging the right fees. This lack of…

  • Understand your prospect Pains and Gains

    Understand your prospect Pains and Gains

    Guest blog by Marianne Smith, Doo Marketing The number one rule before spending time or money on marketing is – understand your prospect Pains and Gains If the headline sentence on your website includes how long you’ve been in business, where your office is based or how big your team is, you’ve lost me. If…

  • Beat the challenges of 2023

    Beat the challenges of 2023

    3 key strategies for accountants By Susan Clegg, AVN So January is out of the way and it’s time to forge ahead with your plans for the rest of year. How can accountants beat the challenges of 2023? In a rocky business landscape, how can you make sure your business continues to thrive?  And your…

  • Is your work-life balance all ‘work’ and no ‘life’?

    Is your work-life balance all ‘work’ and no ‘life’?

    By Jenny Lukas, AVN Practice Growth Expert A few weeks ago I was working with an AVN member and he told me that his mission was to help people whose work-life balance was all work and no life. This really struck a chord with me. When I first started work, there were no mobile phones…

  • 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…