June’s reading list brings together the practical decisions behind healthier firms and better-run businesses. Founder remuneration, workflow bottlenecks, clearer financial conversations and secure offboarding sit alongside case studies on connected systems, manufacturing data and emerging AI capability.

#1 How Much Can You Pay Yourself as a Founder or CEO? | (SBO Blog)

Too little remuneration can make the founder role unsustainable; too much can weaken the company’s cash position. SBO provides a practical framework for balancing salary, dividends, working capital and the changing financial demands of each growth stage.

#2 How an Award-Winning 255-Person CPA Firm Streamlined Collaboration Across Multiple Locations – and Built a Foundation for AI-Driven Client Value | (Workiro Customer Story)

KSDT CPA’s 255-person team had outgrown fragmented communication and document handling. This customer story follows the firm’s move towards a more connected workflow, bringing tasks, files, messages and electronic signatures into one operational environment.

#3 Why Bookkeeping Belongs at the Centre of the Modern Firm | (XBert Blog)

Treat bookkeeping as a strategic service, and the rest of the advisory relationship becomes stronger. XBert makes the case for placing accurate, continuous financial data at the centre of client delivery, service design and future growth.

#4 How Small Firm Owners Become Their Own Bottleneck (and What Their Timesheets Reveal) | (MinuteDock Academy)

Timesheets can reveal more than billable activity. They can expose owners who remain involved in every approval, decision and client query, limiting team capacity and slowing the firm despite appearing exceptionally busy.

#5 How to Explain Financial Reports to Clients More Effectively | (Fathom Blog)

Good reporting is about helping clients understand what changed, why it matters and what action to take next. Fathom shares techniques for turning financial results into clearer business conversations.

#6 Manufacturing Accounting Software Explained | (Fishbowl Blog)

Production data and financial data cannot operate in separate worlds. Fishbowl outlines how job costing, inventory valuation, work in progress and automated cost of goods sold can create cleaner records and more dependable reporting.

#7 LVX Global Case Study | (WorkGuru Case Study)

As LVX Global expanded across lighting, fire safety and smart-building services, disconnected processes became harder to manage. WorkGuru helped bring quoting, purchasing, scheduling and invoicing together, with Xero supporting a smoother flow into the accounts.

#8 We Need to Talk About the AI Skills Gap in Accounting | (Glasscubes Blog)

Buying AI tools is the easy part. Building the confidence and practical knowledge to use them well is harder. Glasscubes examines why management capability, internal training and hands-on experimentation will shape the profession’s actual rate of adoption.

#9 Announcing Our Investment in Forage | (Intuit Blog)

Forage is tackling a specialised payments problem: helping merchants accept SNAP and EBT transactions online through a developer-friendly API. Intuit’s investment highlights the wider opportunity to modernise infrastructure for restricted-spend payment categories.

#10 Why Accounting Firms Need One-Click Offboarding | (Practice Protect Blog)

A departing employee can leave behind access across dozens of apps, portals and shared accounts. Practice Protect argues for a centralised offboarding process that removes permissions quickly, records the action and reduces the burden of proving compliance.

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