I’ve been busy this week judging accountancy awards. I always love doing this as I like to learn what the best businesses are doing. But some entries are easier to…
How to get the most out of your team
Personality profiling is often criticised as it is not an exact science. However, as long as you understand the limitations, it can be very helpful. We use DiSC profiling but…
When technology fails …
… you need the humans around to treat other humans like humans! – Rishi Ruparella, Airwallex At Minerva Accountants we use as much tech as practical to automate the back…
How to increase your earnings
At the Business Book Awards last week the founder, Lucy McCarraher shared the fact that business leaders who read more than 7 books per year earn 2.3 times more than…
Know your client
Lots of client meetings this week. Yes, we need to know our clients for AML but chatting to them usually results in extra work. Sometimes it’s a quick query that…
Are you multi-tasking or attention switching?
We used to be proud to multi-task. And then we were told it was wrong as we were attention switching which was less efficient rather than more. But sometimes it…
Would you buy a discounted parachute?
It’s a question that Brad Burton asked which got me thinking. (So I hope it will get you thinking too) Why do we assume that we need to be cheap…
Getting the most out of conferences
There are all sorts of conferences and you may attend for different reasons but you need to prioritise what you want to get out of an event in order to…
Less is more
Management accounts. What should they include? It depends very much on the users, their goals and their understanding of finance. Most management accounts that I have seen over the years…
Your business, your goals
When I talk to accountants about how to have a ‘better’ tax return season my assumption is that they want to avoid having to do all the work in a…