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Are your employees driving you nuts?
By Joanne Wharam, AVN Practice Growth Expert. One of the key frustrations I hear from business owners is that managing their people at times drives them nuts. Whilst this is to some extent inevitable, because people are all different and more than that they are thinking and feeling, there are some common frustrations that can…
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It’s International Accountants Day – let’s celebrate!
10th November is International Accountants Day Whether you’re an accountant yourself, a business owner or neither one of these, you should be giving a big high five to the accountancy profession today. While they may have an image of being unsociable, process-obsessed introverts, the reality is very different. Here are three good reasons to celebrate:…
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10 tips for a stress-free tax season
By Practice Growth Experts Emma Slack and Alan Woods Act now to make tax season a breeze There’s nothing inevitable about a hellish tax season. There’s plenty you can do now to reduce workloads and relieve stress so January isn’t a nightmare. These are our top 10 tips to stay sane: 1 Remember, you run…
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3 things stopping you moving your accountancy practice forward
Most accountants want their practice to be more successful, productive, profitable, and efficient. But somehow nothing seems to change. So what’s stopping you moving your accountancy practice forward? After all, there are thousands of tools, software programmes, consultants and training sessions available to help you (and I should know – I’ve created loads of them…
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2021 AVN Awards – the winners
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 AVN Awards. These firms have shown absolute commitment to making progress, despite the many challenges of the last 18 months. They have demonstrated leadership, teamwork, imagination and vision plus total dedication to doing the right things for their clients. The winners are… Business Clarity…
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Holly Booker
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Are you just an accountant to your clients?
Many accountants believe that business advisory work is the way ahead for the profession. Compliance work is increasingly less valued by business owners and brings in lower and lower returns. So business advisory has become a kind of holy grail. And those forward thinking accountants are right. Your skills with numbers can make a big…
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Create an accountancy practice that doesn’t rely on you
What would happen to your accountancy practice if you weren’t there? One of the lessons we’ve all had to learn over the last 18 months is that we never know what’s coming around the corner. Whatever we thought we knew about being prepared was blown apart by the speed and scale of the Covid pandemic.…
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How to recruit the right people
It’s time to change the way you recruit new employees for your accountancy practice. The world has changed, people’s expectations have changed, and the old CV-based approach was never very effective anyway. But how do you know what works to recruit the right people? On a recent Accountants Helping Accountants webinar, Kim Farrell and Jimmy…
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You need to show up if you want to win
By Jenny Lukas, AVN Someone once said to me ‘you aren’t going to win if you don’t show up.’ It’s stayed with me ever since. You can interpret that in several ways of course. Below I talk about not showing up physically but also not showing up emotionally. And that’s what I want to focus…
