Are Your Remote Bookkeeping Costs Setting You Back Annually?
BOSS is one of the oldest remote bookkeeping companies in Australia today and can offer businesses a service where bookkeepers follow our client’s own procedures and have direct contact with bookkeepers via skype and email. All jobs can be performed on a fixed fee basis keeping monthly costs down for businesses where bookkeeping is concerned.
5 Tips for Building Your Dream Client List
A-list clients are the dream. However, it can be a bit of a trick to know for sure that you’re not signing on with D-listers in A-listers’ clothing. You might have to go through quite a bit of misery before you come to realise that a new client was not what you were hoping. That’s why we’d like to suggest that you integrate a system for partnering with new clients. Let’s take a look at some points you might consider going through when you’re checking out whether or not you want to work with a new client.
Bad Hires Are Your Mistake
By using a personality test alongside the usual resumes and interviews you’ll end up with a much clearer picture of how a potential hire will fit into your firm. Now you’ll know not only what you’re hiring (the skill-set and experience) but whom you’re hiring, allowing you to build a more versatile team.
Quick Tips to Help You Become a Better Leader
As you grow your firm’s team you’re going to discover that being an accounting wizard does not translate into being a top tier leader. The weaker your leadership skills, the more you’re going to have to make up for the lackluster performance turned in by your team. That defeats the whole purpose of bringing in new people in the first place. Happily, leadership qualities can be grown, just like your accounting skillset. Here are some leadership tips to keep in mind as you bring new people in under you.
Affordable Employee Perks for Small Firms
The ultimate point is that there’s no need to break the bank in order to offer cool perks. Like anything else in building a business, choosing the best perks is an experiment. Don’t be afraid to tweak and tinker your offered perks until you hit on a combination that has your employees praising your name on their Facebook account.
15 Quick Tweaks to Boost Your Leadership Skills
Poor leadership is a death by a thousand cuts. This week we’re going to jump right into a variety of actions you may or may not be taking that are diminishing your leadership role in your firm. That diminished role can be costing you productivity, time, and even employees who think their efforts might best be spent helping to build a competing firm.
Have You Still Not Gone Paperless?
Looking to boost your firm’s efficiency? It’s time to go paperless. There are programs and apps out there now to cover just about any need you have, from file workflows to interoffice communications. The big question though is why make the change at all? Here are 12 solid reasons why you should join your competition in the digital age.
Get Good at Growth
We talk about growth a lot in our emails to you. It’s why BOSS exists – to help Australian and New Zealand firms attain growth. That’s why it’s important to us that we’re all on the same page about what “growth” really is.
Are You a Bad Boss?
The American National Bureau of Economic Research did a study looking into the bottom-line impact of bad bosses. The numbers are pretty scary, but you’re fairly certain you’re not a bad boss. You think your team likes you. You don’t think that your leadership is costing your firm productivity. Right? Well, if you’re not 100% sure here are some pointers you can look out for in your routine to see if you’re a bad boss.