Resources

Future shifts in the accounting industry

In this podcast, Chris Hooper the CEO of Accodex shares insights with hosts Richard Francis (CEO of Spotlight Reporting) and MC Carter (Director and Founder of Practice Paradox) on the future of accounting, and the democratisation of business intelligence.

Using the cloud to enable advisory

In this podcast, Shaye Thyer from BDO Australia shares insights into how business advisory is changing and expanding the role of accountants creating exciting opportunities and new challenges. The conversation also explores how accountants can develop their skills to embrace the shift to advisory.

Strategic planning for small businesses

In this podcast, Matt Sharwood (Director of Advise Accountants) demonstrates how his time out from the accounting industry to get into business helped him understand what businesses really needed from their accountants. If you're looking to make advisory a success then this is the podcast for you!

Making forward facing accounting the new norm

In this podcast, we chat with Prue McStay, Director of Astute Mode. She reveals the challenges and benefits of building a firm that focuses on forward facing Advisory services instead of retroactive compliance work.

Introductory Reporting

1. Spotlight overview
2. Creating an organisation
3. Importing data
4. Easy customisation options
5. Sharing your report

Advanced Reporting

1. Customise your data
2. Set up KPI's / targets
3. Create your custom charts
4. Saving report templates
5. Create a consolidated report

Introductory Forecasting

1. Set up a new organisation
2. Using the Task Manager
3. Importing data
4. Flexing budgets
5. P&L forecast rules

Advanced Forecasting

1. Update actuals in a forecast
2. Balance sheet forecast rules
3. Cash adjustments
4. Create 'what-if' scenarios
5. Presenting reports

New Features Review in Spotlight Forecasting

Our recently released Loan Amortisation Rule and Dynamic Rules in Spotlight Forecasting are real time savers for accountants. They reduce the creation time of a forecast by around 30 mins! Join us for this live webinar which will take you through these new features.

Spotlight Suite Overview (UK)

In this webinar, we will go over the main products in the Spotlight suite and explore how our award-winning No. 1 advisory tools can save you time, effort and can open up additional revenue streams. Start time: 10.00am BST • 11.00am SAST

Spotlight Starter Overview

Discover how Spotlight products work alongside each other to enable accountants to provide value-add advisory services. In this webinar, we'll go through Spotlight's main tools and show how they can be applied to your client base. 11am NZST • 9am AEST • 4pm PDT

Spotlight Super VCFO Overview (UK)

Looking to become a trusted advisor to your clients? Learn how to with our range of Spotlight products. Join us for this live demo that will give you insight into how our Super VCFO package will enable your firm to deploy value-add advisory services across your client base. 10.30am BST