In the past few years, the outsourced accounting industry has kept bringing a lot of values to Australian accounting firms. More and more accounting firms have begun to outsource much more complex jobs not only bookkeeping or data entry, but also tax return, SMSFs, etc. What are the major factors that have driven the high demands of outsourced services in …
Walls closing in
Accenture recently announced a shedding of significant staff, where the last shedding was almost 17 years ago. What’s interesting about this is that a week ago the firm Deloitte announced it is set to dissolve one of its six business units, Deloitte Private, an advisory arm aimed at small and medium enterprises and high net-worth individuals, and move its partners, …
Have we hit peak cloud ?
Last week I had the chance to speak to an accountant this side of the Nullarbor. A small country town (as you’d expect), for some undisclosed reason he’d move into this two firm town and bought the practice from the previous owner. He did say “if I’d known now what I knew then…” (or something to that effect), but his …
Sometimes you just have to fire a client
Last week we had to let go one of our larger clients, who has been a client for almost 10 years. The issue involved several issues, the main one being we were losing money due to scope creep on the services and an unwillingness to renegotiate based on increased scope of services. Letting clients go is a skill we don’t …
