Tips for Accounting in The Cloud
Cloud computing is one of the fastest growing areas of IT across the globe: it was the main investment area for IT departments in 2013 and 2014 and is forecast to continue as a priority in 2015. Accounting is one profession that is taking the move to the Cloud seriously. There is lots of scope for accounting firms to move their operations to the Cloud, and many practices, both large and small are taking this option. Let’s start looking at the benefits of the cloud….
Outsourced Accounting With a Small Practice (Case Study)
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5 Quick Tips for Upping Your Website Conversion Game
Surveys show that 85% of people are hitting the internet when they search for local businesses. The conclusion is obvious – you’re going to want your firm’s website to be in tip top shape in order to turn visitors into conversions. Let’s take a look at 5 quick tips that will help turn your website into a conversion machine.
Is outsourcing necessary to take on a stronger advisory focus? – Guest Post by Dale Crosby
What can the leaders of progressive firms do to convert the additional capacity created by the efficient outsourcing of compliance and administrative work into a stronger advisory focus?
3 Big Ways to Save Yourself Time
A lot of the time-management tips out there deal with eliminating waste in your daily procedures. But these tips miss out on the biggest time-saving question there is – should you be doing those tasks at all? The real key to running your business at full speed isn’t getting through every single job at breakneck speed – instead your focus should be on figuring out which jobs you should be doing, and those that you should be cutting from your personal schedule.
Tips for Selecting & Thinning Out Clients to Boost the Success of Your Business
A savvy business owner knows which business connections are worth his time and energy and which ones are not. Culling your client list is an important business strategy. It is not personal. It is about their value to your business.
Tips for Attracting High-end Clients
If your firm is still in its infant stages, how do you attract these big-time clients? Let’s use this article to flip things around a bit and look at accounting firms through the eyes of an A-lister on the prowl for an accountant and/or business advisor.
Are You Making These 7 Accounting Leadership Errors?
It’s absolutely true that missteps, mistakes, blunders, and outright errors can lead to wonderful insights. But there is no law that says that you have to be the one making these mistakes – you’re free to learn from the mistakes of others. We’ve worked with more than our fair share of firm owners, CEOs, and management execs and we’ve managed to compile a list of some of the more common errors we see all the time.
Tired of Painful HR Issues With In-House Staff? BOSS’ Online Bookkeeping Service Rids the Worry
A lot of companies have had enough with the whole recruitment process and are looking for ways to simplify or completely remove every stage involved with HR and its many ongoing requirements. BOSS is seeing a big move towards online bookkeeping services amongst every size of businesses. This week Seek announced they would be giving employers the opportunity to mask the names of candidates as they search through their site.
How to Create an Email Subject Line That People Will Want to Open
It was reported by the Radicati Group (a technology market research firm) that 1.9 billion non-spam emails are sent every single day and by 2019 the average business user will receive 96 emails per day! So fighting your way through a deluge of emails for a chance to be opened is becoming a tough business in itself.
Not Growing Fast Enough? You Might Need To Clarify Your Strategy
One of the mistakes we see new firm owners make time and again is that they see the start of their firm as an end. This is not true. Throwing open the proverbial doors of your firm is only one step in many in building a business that pays you your true value. For this to work, you’re going to need a concrete game-plan.
How to Get Staff to Embrace Outsourced Accounting
The accountancy profession is going through a massive change as technology and the move to outsource accounting is enabling firms to provide a better advisory service, control costs better and have a flexible core compliance workforce. The change is inevitable for all firms but managing the change well is of the upmost importance.
How to Properly Take Your Firm’s Temperature
It’s a fairly obvious thing to do – in order to figure out if your firm is blossoming or withering you set up a measuring stick and make a notch each financial quarter. What is perhaps not quite so obvious is what those notches should represent. An auto-shop can have the most efficient tools in the world, but the garage itself isn’t going to prosper if there aren’t happy clients wanting them to be used. So, in terms of your firm’s health, what should you be measuring instead?
Expertise is Marketing
You have great employees. You’re outsourcing. You’re a wizard at accounting itself. And none of it matters because you have no clients. That being said, what do you do if you’re a brand new start-up and you just straight up don’t have the money? It’s time to get the word out that you’re the expert accountant when it comes to something. Anything at all.
Should You Be Charging More?
There’s a common chain of events that plagues struggling accounting firms. To stay competitive there’s only one thing you can really do – lower your prices. And all the while you’re scrambling to grab up even more low-value clients which in itself costs more time, and of course it also means you’re continuously adding to your workload just to break even.
Is Your Quality of Service High Enough?
The problem is that many accountants don’t really feel like they’re in a service industry. Instead, their position is accounting is an essential business and, being essential, it will automatically have clients. This leads to grist-mill firms that revolve around compliance work.
5 Reasons to Use Remote Bookkeeping & Accounting Services
A good outsourcing provider will have all the remote bookkeeping work reviewed before it goes back to the client. This takes out the frustrations of having to oversee work that their remote employees are doing. If you’re looking for a service that ticks all the boxes in this article as well as offer you a lot more, have a look at our newest Freedom Service offer that removes all the worries for accounting firms saving you time, money and major headaches of employing in-house staff.
5 Tips to Look For In Your Remote Bookkeeping Provider
If you’ve made the decision to move forward with using an outsourcing provider as an addition to your in-house staff, (or for those that want to use an outsourcing provider for all their accounting/ bookkeeping needs (rather than hire any in-house at all), then as far as hiring a remote bookkeeper is concerned, there are some things you now need to consider to make sure your provider ticks all the boxes for your business needs.
