Generalist or Specialist – Who Owns the Future?

Generalist or Specialist – Who Owns the Future?

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...
Reality Check for Accounting Firms

Reality Check for Accounting Firms

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...
High Tech with a Soft Touch

High Tech with a Soft Touch

The so-called ‘digital disruption’ is leading to significant changes in the way that the leaders of accounting firms manage their work, their people and their clients. Cloud accounting, bank feeds, client portals, standard business reporting and eLearning platforms...
3 Tips on how to keep Millennials engaged at work

3 Tips on how to keep Millennials engaged at work

A lot has changed about the workforce in the last decade or so. Businesses have reached a point where they no longer place the greatest focus on attracting and retaining customers but on finding and holding the right employees. The Millennials, born from 1980 to 2000...
UPSKILLING YOUR TEAM IN AN ERA OF AUTOMATION

UPSKILLING YOUR TEAM IN AN ERA OF AUTOMATION

There’s no doubt that technology is having a significant impact on the way that financial data is collected, processed, analysed and delivered to clients. And it’s clear that roles and responsibilities are changing as firms understand how technology can be used to...
5 skills for the post-automation workforce

5 skills for the post-automation workforce

Automation is upon us whether we like it or not. The world is constantly striving for progress and these days it’s all going digital – and I do mean all. If today it’s safe to say that there is an internet of people, very soon it will be an internet of things with the...

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