AMintheAM: Recent Episodes
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Grab a coffee and a croissant and tune in to our podcast, AMintheAM - where familiar faces from across the industry sit down with AccountancyManager for a mid-morning chat. We're shining a light on the issues facing accountants and bookkeepers right now. Pastries optional and totally acceptable at any time of day.
On the AMintheAM podcast this week is Sarah Douglas from HouseTree Business. Sarah is well known within the bookkeeping community for taking the time to share advice and guidance with other members and her clients.
During this podcast, Sarah discusses her approach to selecting and implementing software within her clients' businesses, her relationship with the ICB 'family' and reasons to be positive about 2021.
In this week's episode of the AMintheAM podcast Jonathan Stobart sits down with Geraldine Carter of She Thinks Big Coaching. As a business coach for accountants Geraldine draws on her experiences as a business owner to advise her clients. During this session, Geraldine discusses the drawbacks of hourly billing, how niching can enable you to be a specialist and the challenges of the accountants' business model.
AM's Jonathan Stobart sits down with Vipul Sheth to talk about his career and business, AdvanceTrack Outsourcing.
Having seen first hand the positive impact the right advice and client service can have on business owners, Vipul was inspired to create more time for accountants, enabling them to deliver a better client service.
Vipul's team offer outsourcing solutions for accountants and deliver personal service in accordance with the company values Vipul and his team embrace.
Lucy Cohen is the Co-Founder of Mazuma Accountants, the UK's leading online accountants for small and micro businesses. Lucy joined AM's Jonathan Stobart and discussed how her drive for efficiency has shaped her firm and client service. The conversation also covered how Covid-related advice is delivered to clients on a monthly retainer, and whether or not the Self Assessment deadline should be delayed.
Aynsley Damery, CEO of Clarity, joined AccountancyManager's Jonathan Stobart to dive into Aynsley's background as a practicing accountant, and journey to software company CEO. Aynsley ran an accountancy firm that promoted advisory services, before co-founding Clarity. Aynsley and Jonathan talked about the pressures of running a firm and a business, and the role of marketing and branding.
In this episode of the AMintheAM podcast, Reza Hooda joins us to talk about his career to date, the lessons learnt along the way and how this has developed into a mentoring program for accountants. Reza runs his own practice, Walji and Co, as well as providing coaching to accountants. He gives accountants the support, direction and accountability they need to transform the profits of their firms.
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Never one to turn down the opportunity to talk about marketing, our marketing manager Jonathan Stobart sits down with Mike Crook from PracticeWeb. During this conversation, Mike and Jonathan discuss marketing, branding, company culture and how to justify a return on investment on your marketing activity.
Daniel Richards is the Business Development Director at MyFirmsApp; the first company to develop an mobile app for accountants and bookkeepers. The OneApp mobile communication platform is designed exclusively for accountants in practice to bring them closer to the people that matter, 24/7.
Connecting with clients in this new digital age is a challenge for many firms and interactive communication tools are now seen as essential aids. The OneApp mobile communications platform is a customisable digital communication channel that’s cost effective and easy to implement and it creates that essential personal digital bridge between accountants and their clients.
New ways of working that are reliant on digital communication are now the norm and clients increasingly expect their accountants to meet them where they spend most of their time - on the home screens of their mobile devices.
Daniel has been with MyFirmsApp since its formation in 2012 and has overseen its growth from a small software start-up to now working with over 1200 accountancy firms globally. He is a renowned speaker and thought-leader and a leading expert on mobile and App technology.
AccountancyManager's CEO James was joined by cloud accounting and technology specialist Matt Flanagan of Appacus, for a mid-morning dive into remote working, the challenges accountants are facing, and the digitisation of accountancy firms.