by Rob Pillans | May 25, 2023 | Articles, Business Strategy
As an accounting firm coach, consultant, mentor and facilitator one of the things I get asked to do is facilitate planning days for firms. Each firm has their own name for these events and goes about it in their own way but there are a number of common elements that I...
by Rob Pillans | Jul 21, 2020 | Articles, Business Strategy
The title of this article was the title of a webinar recently hosted by CAANZ, in which father and son Richard and Daniel Susskind shared some insights from their research on the future of the professions and more recently, the impact that COVID-19 is having....
by Rob Pillans | May 25, 2020 | Articles, Business Strategy
As an accounting firm coach and consultant who gets to see under the bonnet of a lot of accounting firms, I remain convinced that the profession has an endemic undervaluing of systemised, standardised and documented ways of getting things done, which are consistently...
by Rob Pillans | Apr 23, 2020 | Articles, Business Strategy, Strategy
Now is the time for accountants to shine…… and for a light to be shone on the important role accountants play in the economy. When I was a young Chartered Accountant at Price Waterhouse I worked in the UK for a “busy season”. I was struck at the time by how highly...
by Rob Pillans | Oct 29, 2019 | Accounting Firm Management, Articles, Business Strategy
I was listening to a podcast from the USA which was an interview of the founder of a successful small firm in the USA. One of the things this firm does is weekly billing for its virtual CFO service clients. This is the first time I have heard of weekly billing but as...
by Rob Pillans | Jul 22, 2019 | Articles, Business Strategy
I attended the AICPA Engage conference in Las Vegas from Monday 10 June to Thursday 13 June. The conference offered hundreds of sessions across technical and non-technical topics and was attended by about 4,000 accountants, mostly from the USA. I attended two sessions...
