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Award-winning accountants share their best tips!
Wouldn’t you love to know the secrets of award-winning accountants? Well, now you can! We’re making available this special issue of The AVN Navigator so you can learn from some of the best in the business. The winners of the 2024 AVN Most Inspiring Accountant awards share their experiences and their tips for beating the…
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You Never Know What Someone’s Going Through This Festive Season
The festive season is starting, and it’s all glitter, carols and mince pies… or is it? AVN’s Kerry Riley asks you to be kind this year. While many of us are soaking up the festive magic, others might be quietly battling something that isn’t so sparkly. Let’s talk about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) – a…
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Do clients really want business growth services?
It’s something we’ve been advocating at AVN for many years. While some accountants have adopted the idea enthusiastically, many more have stuck to compliance only work. Their reasoning being that their clients aren’t interested or that they don’t have the right skills (or both). In our experience (and we’ve worked with over 5000 accountants), the…
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AVN Most Inspiring Accountant Award 2024
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 AVN Most Inspiring Accountant Award is Peter Ellington of Triple Bottom Line Accounting (TBLA). Peter and his team had already scooped both the Consistently High Standards and High Profile Practice award categories. They now take the top prize in this year’s AVN Inspiring Accountants…
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2024 AVN Most Inspiring Accountant Awards – winners announced!
The 2024 AVN Most Inspiring Accountant Awards – category winners announced! As always, picking the winners was a tough decision as the standard was incredibly high. But reading through all the award entries was a truly uplifting experience. All the firms that entered showed fantastic commitment to their clients, their team and the growth and…
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What’s keeping accountants awake at night?
By Shane Lukas, AVN Managing Director At AVN we talk to accountants every day. We listen to the challenges you’re facing and the issues that cause you stress, worry and yes, sleepless nights. Whether it’s lack of time, pricing, confidence, overall strategy or something else, we’ve got a good idea of what’s causing the most…
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Why you procrastinate – 7 reasons
Why you procrastinate is down to several reasons By Shane Lukas, Managing Director, AVN We human beings are a lot less rational than we like to think we are. And we’re very good at justifying our irrational actions – or inactions – to ourselves. How many times have you told yourself you’re saving money because…
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Skills shortage – will KPMG layoffs help you?
By Jenny Lukas, AVN Director and Practice Growth Expert What does the news that KPMG is cutting 200 jobs in the UK mean for the accountancy skills shortage? It’s not the only one to make redundancies. In the last 18 months, across all of the Big 4, more than 9,000 employees have been let go…
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Time to reset?
By Shane Lukas, Managing Director, AVN So the UK is having a general election (in case you hadn’t noticed). Which of course means an absolute deluge of news, comment, claims and counter-claims. I feel exhausted already and there’s another 4 weeks to go! Whoever you vote for and whatever the result, this constitutes a reset.…
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Is Working Harder Always the Answer?
By Shane Lukas, Managing Director, AVN It’s fair to say that for most of us (except for a very lucky few), success doesn’t come without hard work. But when does hard work actually hinder your progress, rather than moving you forwards? Working harder isn’t always the answer. As Einstein wisely pointed out, doing the same…
