The Future of The Accounting Profession | Kenji Kuramoto
‘The Future of The Accounting Profession’ panel discussion as part of the AcuityCon conference for the Acuity Financial Experts team.
Has a black swan event changed this Evangelists views on niching? | David Leary
Today I’m speaking with David Leary, Director of Accounting and Bookkeeping Evangelism of Melio Payments. In this episode, we talk about niching, business, and much more.
Building a multi-disciplinary professional services business | John Knight
'Mongolia was about me taking myself out of my comfort zone. That was about me stretching myself to think differently. That was about having a bit of a breather, and climbing a mountain in Mongolia is one way to get a bit of a different perspective on the world. It took me out of ...
Bridging the People Advisory gap | Will Lopez
Today I’m speaking with Will Lopez, Head of Accountant Community of Gusto, and he is back to the podcast with a new initiative.
At 14 Years Old Meet, the Youngest Xero Certified Advisor in the World!
This is a bonus episode of Cloud Stories recorded for the beginning of the Australian Financial Year. Ollie Beale, Apprentice at Bookkeeping4U joined as a special guest of the Afternoon Community Supporting Community chat. This episode is date specific, so you may want to skip ahead to the 21 minutes mark if you just ...
Accounting World Domination | Liz Mason
I have the best people. I have nothing without my team. I have good ideas and I have vision, and I do have creativity and innovation, but I don’t have the ability to do it all and nobody can. And so I focus very heavily … Have you read the book Traction? It’s a ...
How a modern future-focused firm scopes, selects and implements best of breed cloud solutions | Lee Duffield
I'm really fussy about the way salespeople contact me. If they start spamming me and if I think they've got my details illegally, I'm not happy at all. I would rather... like I know what I want and I'll reach out to them. And then it's around a demo and a clear plan of ...
Living up to the critical role of “Recession-Proof Accountant” | Will Lopez
The two terms that came out of the Great Recession here in the US were 'Flat is Up', and the 'Accountant Recession' or the 'Recession-proof Accountant'. Flat is Up meant that accounting firms during that period were able to achieve flat growth year over year even though their workforce was eliminated by 40%. They ...
How to create a scalable modern firm that can sell | Ryan Lazanis
"I mandated across the firm what type of clients we would work with, the personalities of those clients, the technology that was used, and the core service offering. So, that allowed us to standardise pretty much everything. I think that's the secret." Ryan Lazanis Today I’m speaking with Ryan Lazanis Founder of Future Firm ...
Playing the cloud game: how a computer game designer turned accountant built an app to transition his practice to the cloud | Paul Murray
Xero have been the first to say we're going to create a ecosystem and we're going to have an open API and you're going to be able to do all this cool stuff. But historically, that was never the case. Everyone lived in their silos. So for us now to all start talking together ...