Humanise The Numbers - for ambitious accountants in practice

How do you reorganise a team of 50 accounts, production people so that they become more focused, build knowledge and skill in a faster, better way and feel a greater sense of 'connectedness' across the firm. In this podcast discussion with Jason Appel of BKL, a large North London firm, Jason shares insights on the culture of their firm and how they've reorganized this large team of...

How do you, as a firm end up with a culture where everyone within the firm holds everyone else to account for the standards of the work they do and the way they behave.? It's not just a top down accountability. It's top down, bottom up, side to side accountability because everyone has that drive and enthusiasm and verve for achieving performance standards and behavioral standards that ev...

What do you have to do in your firm to ensure that what you invest in the strategic thinking, the strategic hard work pays off for you as a business owner, your team and your clients as well? Join me on this Humanise The Numbers podcast discussion with Emily and Stephen. And you'll hear them describe the merit, the value, the payoff associated with clarity around strategy for them. Both of th...

Where's the value in your firm around pulling together absolute clarity around the behavioral standards, values, and beliefs, that you want to live by in your accountancy firm? Is the hard thinking, hard work going to pay off for you and your firm? Well, on this Humanise The Numbers podcast discussion with Phool and Cheryl, owners and leaders of two different accounting firms, they share thei...

This is podcast 3 of 5 of the ACCA Strategy Series Where's the value in having a crystal clear sense of purpose for your accountancy firm? On this Humanise The Numbers podcast discussion, you're going to hear from James Lizars and Steph Rickaby, two sole owners of two modest size accounting firms that think big  about their core purpose. And you'll hear Paul Shrimpling ask them, whe...

Is it worth the time, the effort, the energy in talking strategy in an accounting firm? Well, this was a question posed to me by ACCA. So, on this Humanise The Numbers podcast you'll hear Douglas Aitken, a colleague of mine, and I talk about the core elements of strategy and how those core elements can deliver a true return on investment for you and your firm. This is podcast 1 of 5 in the AC...

How do you define in your firm the concept of real time accounting? And is it really meaningful? In this Humanise The Numbers discussion with Stefan Barrett of Bee Motion an accountancy firm in Stockport, you'll hear Stefan share his insights around what real-time accounting means to him and how he makes it valuable to his clients. When on this episode page, please scroll down for the contact...

Where's the value in an accountant, having a strategy conversation with a client and then accountability conversations with clients? Well, in this Humanise The Numbers podcast discussion with Hugh Steadman of C&H Steadman in Hemel Hempstead, you'll hear Hugh describe his views on how talking the historical reports from annual accounts is so last year and actually talking about the fu...

What must it be like for the leadership team of an accountancy firm to be not a hundred percent confident, but seriously confident about the future stability of their firm. You're about to hear from Suda Ratnam of 70 person, 11 partner firm Raffingers on the outskirts of London, share what they as a firm are doing to humanise the numbers in their firm based on their mentoring program for thei...

What do you think it would be like to grow an accountancy firm from 30 people strong to 200 people strong 4 offices, 18 partners, and still retain the feel and culture of the family firm you were 30 years ago when there was 30 people in the firm. Nathan Keeley from Carpenter Box down in Sussex, joins me on this HumaniseTheNumbers. Online podcast and shares in quite intimate detail, a number of the...

What one thing is the key to the future success of your accounting firm? Don't you think actually it makes sense to get an outsider's perspective? To answer that question, an outsider who absolutely loves the profession and has spent the last six years working with the profession I'm  joined by Zoe Lacey Cooper, the director head of events at Accountex the largest UK exhibition for...

What would it be like knowing with absolute confidence in absolute certainty where you're taking your firm? What the vision of your firm is? The goals that you've set for yourself. Knowing with concrete certainty that you're going to get there. In this discussion with Jo Drinkwater of Grant McKnight in the West Midlands, you'll see, hear, even feel Jo's confidence and cert...

How exactly do you build a stronger connection with each and every one of your team so that each and every one of them are more productive, generate a higher standard of work and ultimately deliver greater bottom line profits to you and your firm?  On this HumaniseTheNumbers podcast discussion with Wayne Hockley from Anthony Russell, you'll hear Wayne describe in detail how they've moved...

How come some accountants are really good at connecting with their business owner clients and other accountants are less good, less effective at building that personal connection with that business owner clients.  On this podcast interview, you'll hear Luke Smith of Purpose -  this is part two of a two-part discussion I had with Luke recently.  Myself and a bunch of other accountants actually...

How do you explain to clients the value behind you charging them in excess of 2% of the turnover of their business?  And how do you explain that a million pound turnover business can and should, and willingly will pay you £20,000  or more per annum for the work that you do with them. Well, on this podcast interview with Luke Smith of his firm Purpose, you'll hear Luke describe in detail what...

On  this Humanise The Numbers podcast interview I’m talking to Coral Tolley-Fletcher and Jonathan Vowles of JVCA - based in Cranfield -and I have a sneaking suspicion I ambushed Coral and Jonathan a little around their views of the value that they and their firm deliver to their clients.  And we have what I believe is a valuable conversation about the two types of value, the two aspects of value o...

How would one of your favorite business owner clients feel if they were approached by another accountancy firm that was genuinely wholeheartedly committed to building a better future for them and their business. I've just interviewed that accountancy firm they're called Wood and Disney. I've interviewed Brendon Howlett one of the owner directors of Wood and Disney.  And he shared wh...

Have you ever wondered how to get more production out of your production team? What I mean by that is have you ever wondered how to better help your production team turn out more sets of accounts, more VAT returns, more management accounts in any given time, even if they're working remotely part of the time, or maybe even if they're working remotely all of the time. In this podcast inter...

In this podcast you'll hear how Mark and his team take seriously, deadly seriously, the five behavioral values they hold true in their firm. It's impressive for one core reason. Mark and his team have worked remotely for years. It's not just something that they've created over the recent months thanks to the pandemic. They worked remotely for a long time. They've got this...

Because both Will and Peter are leading high-growth digital accountancy practices it's enlightening to listen to what they have to say! In this discussion Peter and Will share their insights, key skills and structures that support the growth of their firms, the development of their people and the very strong relationships they have with their clients. The discussion starts on the topic of boo...