Ding ding. As humans, we love a good old fashioned tear up now and again, hey? Nowadays, that’s usually when on the screen of your smart phone…where even the dweebiest amongst us can turn into a ten pint, keyboard warrior style Tyson Fury on a bender, ready for an emoji bear knuckle fight after the […]
If you are a fully digital accountancy business, then sure, it’s easy to pick up lower bracket clients, right? They buy into “digital” straight away; they are easily referred to you from other similar clients; hell, even Quickbooks and Xero throw them at you! But, if you wanna start playing “big” and really want to […]
Our vision as a business is to universally change the way tax advice is delivered. So, this half term, I decided to start at home. Read my tongue in cheek article on the top 7 reasons why you should teach your kids, about tax. REASON 1 – Ensures YOU eat the good stuff From the […]
There’s a LOT to do before you start pack your suitcases and sip cocktails in the sun. The countdown for Summer is the time for ‘doing’. Between Easter and Summer, accountants will be attending events and hammering their projects – it’s open season and we want Diagnostax to be an attribute to this period. To […]
How the hell did you end up being a business owner of an accountancy business? You could have stayed in that cushy job in a larger accountancy firm. You could have stayed in industry, not returned or moved into practice for the first time. You could have…well, just not started that “thing” that then seemed […]
I’ve sat, observed, been educated, listened, spoken, made lots of mistakes, had lots of bloody fun and now this is my personal, very tongue in cheek, top ten run down of the load of b#!locks buzzwords of the accountancy profession. If you can think of any that I’ve missed, feel free to add your own […]
The Tech Stack. According to the ICAEW it is, “a term increasingly heard and refers to all the software products and tools in the modern practice and introduced to businesses.” This seems perfectly logical. However, how do you know you are selecting the right technology? All you need to do is take one look at […]
Last month, I wrote a post about going to the dentist – this is the gist of it… I’m an idiot. As I walked out of the dentists on my last visit, I realised it. (I also realise it’s already been obvious everyone else… but it’s taken me a while 😁) Dental check-ups are like […]
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ll be no stranger to the spiralling number of apps available for accountants today to build up their tech stack. I’m also guessing you’re more than likely suffering SOS (Software Overload Syndrome or perhaps even Shiny Object Syndrome – read on you’ll see). Well, there’s a new breed […]
Rich Sykes is the Founder of Cloud CFO, a new breed of solopreneur accountant entering the market who want something different. Read on, to find out how and why, Rich ended up running his own accountancy business… The start of the journey It all started when I got a distress call from an old friend who’d […]
