by Dale Crosby | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog, Communication Skills, Technology
A recent online post by Lee Reams [click here] asked ‘Will artificial intelligence replace the accountants of tomorrow?’ The article outlined the usual arguments for embracing the benefits of technology in creating more efficiency in the workplace. Lee...
by Dale Crosby | Oct 23, 2016 | Blog, Business Advisory Services, Business Growth, Communication Skills
Changes in the ways that accounting firms collect, transform and report data provides a real opportunity to focus on predictive analytics to drive the advisory role with clients. Predictive analytics is the use of data, statistical algorithms and machine learning...
by Dale Crosby | Oct 20, 2016 | Blog, Business Advisory Services, Client Management, Communication Skills, Skills development
Secrets of Successful Business Coaches Many accountants say that they struggle to move from the technical to advisory space in working with business clients. Often, it’s simply lack of confidence that prevents accountants from having deeper and more relevant strategic...
by Dale Crosby | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog, Business Advisory Services, Communication Skills, Skills development
Your accounting background should have prepared you perfectly for analysis, right? Analysing something is all about taking a bunch of information and making sense of it in a way that is relevant to the situation, and then crafting a story. With experience,...
by Dale Crosby | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog, Business Growth, Skills development
What sort of accounting firm do you think will own the future? One that provides a broad range of accounting and advisory services or one that specialises in a particular service? One that knows what type of client it wants to attract or one that will embrace anyone...
by Dale Crosby | Sep 23, 2016 | Blog, Business Growth, Practice Management
The 2015 ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’ Benchmark Report of the Australian Accounting Profession highlighted some startling results: Some of the key findings included: A fall of 8.9% in average revenue per partner A fall in average client fee of 8.0% A decline in...
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