by Rob Pillans | Mar 18, 2021 | Articles
Putting my accounting firm consultant hat on for a moment, here are four ideas to build a better firm. The right people I’ve put this first for a very good reason. You can have all the latest technology but in my view the success of your business still comes back to...
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
Some of you will be familiar a commonly used tool called DiSC. Individuals can complete an online questionnaire and the tool measures an individual’s preferences and tendencies based on the DiSC model. A personalised report is delivered which helps provide insights to...
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 | Sep 24, 2019 | Articles, Payroll
I was prompted to think more about this by a report that a few weeks out from the deadline for the adoption of Single Touch Payroll 50% of businesses are yet to register! Some firms have been providing payroll services to clients for many years. Some have concluded it...
