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Video: How to Productize Your Services With Ryan Lazanis from Future Firm

Ryan Lazanis, the founder of Future Firm, understands the difficulty of scaling professional services. He believes the solution is productization: turning one-off sessions into something that is routine and repeatable.

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Preyanka Gothanayagi - Content Specialist

Advisory Success

5 min read

How to Recruit and Retain an A-Team

Recruiting has traditionally always been difficult in the accounting industry, and the situation has worsened since the beginning of the pandemic. So how do you build and keep an A-Team?

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Advisory Success

2 min read

Why We Undervalue Our Time: The Sunk Cost Fallacy

Despite the advantages of using technology to automate time-consuming drudgery, I’ve found that many people are reluctant to make a change. I believe this is because people often underestimate the value of their own time.

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Advisory Success

4 min read

How to deliver Virtual CFO services to clients

Virtual CFO services are a huge value add for clients, and a revenue booster for the firms that offer them. Dale Crosby, a Director at High Tech Soft Touch Advisors, knows this better than most

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Preyanka Gothanayagi - Content Specialist

2 min read

WINNERS: Australian Accounting Awards 2021

Congratulations to all our winning subscribers! 🎉 The Australian Accounting Awards recognise the best and brightest in the Australian accounting industry.

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Preyanka Gothanayagi - Content Specialist

Advisory Success

6 min read

Strategies to Expand Your Advisory Footprint

There is huge scope for accountants to step up and do more work of passion and purpose, while boosting their own revenue. And yet, many firms are hesitant to take the plunge.

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Preyanka Gothanayagi - Content Specialist

Advisory Success

4 min read

How to Grow and Scale Advisory During a Pandemic With Spotlight

Despite starting their firm in August of 2020, Strata Cloud Accountants managed to grow their client base from three to 52, in just seven months. Here's how they did it.

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Preyanka Gothanayagi - Content Specialist

4 min read

Powered by Spotlight: Martin Aitchison and Zenaida Bharucha from Stepping Stone

Singapore-headquartered accounting firm Stepping Stone is a digital-first practice, partnering with clients’ internal teams to implement software like Xero and Spotlight Reporting.

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Preyanka Gothanayagi - Content Specialist

Advisory Success

5 min read

The Business Advisory Iceberg: How much revenue is under the surface?

The gap between supply and demand for advisory services has shrunk in recent years, but it’s still well felt by SMEs, and under capatilised on by accounting firms.

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Advisory Success

3 min read

Advisory Services and Spotlight Reporting: Some Misconceptions

I have spoken to so many firms over the years - listening to what works well, and what doesn’t. With that in mind, I thought I'd put down some notes about some of the common misconceptions I’ve observed over the years.

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7 min read

My top 7 favourite (and sometimes overlooked) features in Spotlight Reporting

Since I’ve been working at Spotlight for a number of years now, I thought it was well overdue to share some of our clients' favourite, and sometimes even overlooked features.

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Advisory Success

6 min read

6 Steps to Maximising Your Accounting Tech-Stack

Business Fitness's "Good, Bad, and Ugly" Technology Poll of 2020 revealed the number one issue accounting firms have with their tech-stack: lack of utilisation.

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Preyanka Gothanayagi - Content Specialist