Category: AVN Insights

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 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…

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…

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…

By Jenny Lukas, AVN Practice Growth Expert Why I don’t like the word ‘staff’ In a small business it’s crucial that everyone, from the business owner to the newest recruit, works together well. That’s something I’ve learned after 23 years of working with accountancy practices – and working in a small business myself. If they…

By Shane Lukas, MD AVN, author, speaker, coach It’s one of the questions I hear all the time from accountancy practice owners. They want to grow their business but they just can’t get their team to take on more responsibility. The truth is, very often the problem doesn’t lie with the team – it lies…

By Kerry Riley, Wellness and AVN Practice Growth Expert   As humans we are constantly bombarded with messages that we aren’t good enough. We always need to work harder, work faster, do more, be more, be slimmer, be taller, be prettier. And as accountants, there always seems to be someone more successful than you. When…

… and how to avoid the post-holiday blues! By Kerry Riley, AVN Practice Growth Expert   When I think about the 6 weeks summer holiday my palms start to sweat and my stomach goes into knots. How am I going to juggle work and the school summer holiday??? If you’re like me and suddenly have…

Guest post by Philip Webb, Investors In Community. Political leaders are currently pushing the message of “Levelling Up”, our economy. For too long, they say, the divide between the South of England, and the rest of the UK has deteriorated and widened. Quite right too, that the distribution of infrastructure and government spending needs to…

By Susan Clegg, AVN Team A compelling USP (Unique Selling Proposition) helps to position your accountancy practice in the right way within your target market. By focusing on the areas you want to focus on, your USPs help to attract the kind of clients you want to work with and develop a strong brand identity…