Category: accounting
Focus Strategies for the Accounting Industry
Two focus strategies for the accounting industry include narrow service line and customer segmentation. The narrow service line involves practices providing a very narrow ...
Accounting Practices Stuck in the Middle
According to Michael Porter the worst strategic error is to be stuck in the middle, or to try simultaneously to pursue all the strategies ...
A Purple Cow Practice
‘Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable’ is a 2003 book by Seth Godin. The book advocates that companies produce remarkable products and ...
The Cost Leadership Model is not Profitable
The overall cost leadership model is not a profitable strategy for accounting practices for four reasons: Practices with no staff where the principals do ...
Differentiating Your Accounting Practice
Differentiation is the process of distinguishing a product or service from others, to make it more attractive to a particular target market. The concept ...
Cons with Establishing a Financial Planning Division
The problems practices encounter once they have established their own financial planning practice include: The accountant’s personality. Most accountants are not sales people and ...
Pros and Cons of Establishing a Finance Broking Division
According to the industry body, the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia, in 2015 the total new home lending attributed to mortgage brokers was ...
How Should I Structure My New Business
When clients come in to see me about starting a new business they have many different questions depending on the type and size of ...
Growth Pathways for Compliance Based Practices
Compliance based accounting practices that want to grow their practice revenue and be financially rewarded should: Firstly, recognise that the world has changed and ...
Digital Disruption in Compliance Practices
Unfortunately for compliance based practices, the technology and digital disruption affecting many industries is starting to impact on the compliance accounting practice. Compliance fees ...