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WHAT OUR LATEST EPISODE IS ABOUT:
Modern Day Accounting: How to Stand Out and Achieve Utmost Efficiency
Our fantastic guest – Kyelie Baxter – an award winning accounting professional from IQ Accountants who became a partner at a younger age than most – is finally here! In this episode, she passes on her knowledge, experience, and the secrets to standing out in this competitive industry. She also provides useful advice on how we can cope with the overwhelming changes in the industry and more importantly, how to embrace technology.
Join us and take this opportunity to learn more about Kyelie and some of the innovating things she is doing through her commitment to the industry, her firm and her clients. We discussed topics such as:
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This webinar is here to unpack what crypto is all about (not just for criminals or a fad – blockchain is here to stay) – something accountants need to get a handle on as many of their clients will be holding it, but with little guidance and a lot of confusion.
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In this day and age of technology, what does the future hold for the accounting industry? John Waterworth – the managing director of Valenta Australia sits down with us to help us understand more about what robotics for Accounting Firms especially during a time of critical staff shortage.
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Struggling to figure out how to add more value to your clients? Retain your staff better? Increase profitability? Our guest today Lynda Steffens from The Small Business Project might just have the solution for you. No it’s not tax returns or cash flows or any kind of fancy dashboards you usually expect when you hear advisory – but a revolutionary way of approaching and implementing advisory as a service in your business.
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Brett Kelly , CEO of one of the fastest growing accounting firms in Australia, is back by popular demand, rated as one of the top podcasts we recorded, we’re glad to have him back for a meaningful conversation that will have you hooked and wanting more.
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We’ve heard many stories and advice about leadership, but our guest Steve Meyn – a 30+ year partner of PKF Lawler, helps us uncover what it really takes to get to partnership and what it takes to stay there and lead from the front in this ever changing industry.
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Our guest, the remarkable Kylie Parker from Lotus Accountants imparts her knowledge and experience as an accountant, a partner, a business founder and a woman on all aspects of her career and personal life. If you are curious on how she built her firm without any marketing within this unique niche, then you won’t want to miss this episode.
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The self proclaimed ‘millennial accountant’ – our guest, Michelle Knight from Little Miss Bookkeeping shares everything there is to know about growing your own business, following your heart and using social media to drive leads and lifestyle!
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As part of our international expansion we’re pleased to have our first American guest Gary Shamis from Winding River Consulting sharing all there is to know about how to effectively lead a business in the modern era where baby boomers are running firms populated by millenials.
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Most people nowadays use social media to promote their business in the most fun and creative ways, and our guest for today is not one to miss out on the opportunity! Meet Natalie, the accountant who gets her clients from Tiktok!
Keep listening as Natalie Lennon from Two Sides Accounting shares her ups and downs of running a fast growing business during a pandemic.
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Have you ever heard of an accountant who gets his clients from the gym? Our guest today, Reuben Bergola from New Wave Business Solutions surely has unique ways in scaling up his business. In this episode, he shares his journey, vision and tips on how he managed to start young and organically grow to a multi-million dollar accounting firm in a short span of time.
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First of all – you have to check out BlueRock’s website – it’s out of this world (click on the link below)! This ‘picture’ will paint a thousand words about our guest Peter Lalor from BlueRock who shares his incredible vision and the journey towards materialising it.
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From working for the top accounting software businesses to starting the Australian operation for Xero, with his wife on their kitchen table, our special guest Wayne Schmidt from PracticeEQ tells it how it is.
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In this episode, we speak with Baidy Laffan of Yellow Canary, a leader who despite her young age, has been able to achieve so much by following the unconventional path to success.
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The ever enterprising Greg Hayes of Hayes Knight , a familiar face in the industry, leading one of the top mid-tier accounting firms in Australia, discusses the fundamental challenges facing the baby boomer accounting firms and what they need to do to adapt.
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Starting out as a Graduate Accountant and eventually paving his way and co-founding his very own high tech accounting practice, our guest, Patrick Sargent, CEO of Pop Business gives us more than a sneak peak of what his journey has been about, how he focused on systems, growth and scaling the business. His business aims to disrupt the traditional accounting model.
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The ‘Franchise Accountant’ – Peter Knight, shares his journey and lays down the blueprint on how to build up your practice from square one and how to maintain outstanding client relationships in the long run and let go of the bad ones.
Join us in this worthwhile episode with the influential Peter Knight of Franchise Accounting and Tax as he shares more about his journey.
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Technology and innovation is undeniably changing our lives, David Smith is passionate about creating new opportunities for Accountants and the Accounting industry, reveals how we can take advantage of it and the secrets to building a highly efficient and profitable accounting firm.
In this podcast with David Smith from Smithink we discussed everything from innovation, networking, finding passion in your work and many more topics.
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We were lucky enough to have Shaye as our guest on the Accountants Exposed Podcast as she reveals her journey from wanting to be a lawyer to being one of the most influential women in accounting. Join in on our enjoyable and illuminating podcast with Shaye Thyer, Head of Mindbridge as she shares her journey.
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On this second part of our podcast with Michael Carter, Founder and CEO of Practice Paradox provides us with a more in-depth understanding of strategies and tactics with regards to marketing and scaling advisory services, his perspective on leadership, and what and how to offer additional help to your clients.
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A marketing pro, innovator and a problem solver, Michael Carter, Founder and CEO of Practice Paradox gives us his insights – both personal and business wise – on how a practice can achieve the utmost growth and apply strategic thinking to your marketing.
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Managing a Global firm that is currently active in 5 countries with over 650 clients and growing, Nick Sinclair, Founder of TOA Global reveals the secrets on how to provide an effective leadership while still working closely with your peers and his insights on the reality of the outsourcing industry.
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From realizing his desire to be an advisor at an early age to successfully running his own accounting and financial planning firm and then working enormous hours to create the sensational growth of TOA Global – a business that emerged from a service he needed himself and scaled it globally to nearly 2000 staff.
We catch up with Nick Sinclair, Founder of TOA Global as he shares his journey.
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He started as a Cadet in a Big 4 firm and within 6 years, he established his own practice at an early age of 26. Andrew Van De Beek, Founder and Head of Purpose of Illumin8 has a knack of attracting the right people giving him the opportunity, along with his own skills to create something unlike any other accounting firm we’ve heard of.
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From realizing his desire to be an advisor at an early age to successfully running his own accounting and financial planning firm and then working enormous hours to create the sensational growth of TOA Global – a business that emerged from a service he needed himself and scaled it globally to nearly 2000 staff.
We catch up with Nick Sinclair, Founder of TOA Global as he shares his journey.
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He started as a Cadet in a Big 4 firm and within 6 years, he established his own practice at an early age of 26. Andrew Van De Beek, Founder and Head of Purpose of Illumin8 has a knack of attracting the right people giving him the opportunity, along with his own skills to create something unlike any other accounting firm we’ve heard of.
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From the traditional trajectory of starting a cadetship in an Accounting firm close to his hometown to becoming a partner at an early age of 30 then founding and directing his own fast growing national practice with a very own unique model, John Knight, Founder and Director of BusinessDepot is here to guide us on how to successfully manage your own firm.
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From starting his side hustles such as the WWF wrestling business as a 13 year old to becoming an accountant in a reputable Adelaide firm and then starting his own practice with his best friend in his early 20s to creating an innovative platform for sole practitioners in accounting to work for clients across the globe. We catch up with Chris Hooper, Founder and CEO of Accodex
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From humble beginnings in country NSW starting her career as a cadet in Audit to becoming a CFO and Financial Controller at some well know movie production businesses in her early 20’s and now running an award winning and technologically advanced CFO Advisory Firm, Sarah Lawrance, Founder & Chief Dreamer at Hot Toast joins us to share her success and ideas.
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We catch up with Brad Eisenhuth and Aidan Parsons to discuss their successful journey. They have partnered with the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand to provide leaders in public practice the opportunity to take part in a hands-on, highly practical program which can successfully transition your practice into a sustainable and impactful Business Advisory practice.
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Let’s catch up with Aly Garrett, Founder of All In Advisory to understand how successfully using technology and outsourcing helped an Award Winning Accounting Practitioner to quickly scale her firm with only a few staff on the ground while balancing the demands of family and running a practice during COVID.
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From being told that she won’t get far in her career because she is a female to becoming a Director at Deloitte and now running an award winning and technologically advanced boutique accounting firm, Aly Garrett, Founder of All In Advisory shares it all!
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Today we catch up with Brett Kelly to discuss his journey from an unemployed 22 year old to now running one of the largest accounting firms in Australia.
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Running a firm is hard enough. Being a Managing Partner at a young age and building a firm into the largest tax and advisory practice on the Gold Coast is even harder (and it hasn’t all been smooth sailing)! Today we catch up with Aaron Lavell to discuss his journey from a young accountant at EY to dominating the accounting space and the challenges that went along with that.
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COVID has had a tremendous impact on accounting firm and practitioners over the last couple of months. Today we talk with the Directors of DMY – Mark Emney and Daniel Jones.
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On this episode, we talk about all the things accountants could be doing better and where they’re going wrong. Mistakes that are costing them huge potential increases in revenue, profits and lifestyle.
Now, Rob Nixon is not an accountant. Yet he has forged a niche to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on how accounting firms can achieve peak performance and his clients on average see profit increases of 98.4% from revenue increases of only 20.8% while working fewer hours with simple tweaks in workflow and technology.
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