This is cool: BDO Stoy Hayward’s Managing Partner Jeremy Newman has a blog. It’s no surprise he was voted Accoun­tancy Age’s Person­ality of the Year — this guy is switched on. I think it goes without saying — and it’s a constant theme for my fellow accountant bloggers — that we need more folks at […]

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There’s a particular blog that only discusses the idea that accounting firms, and indeed all profes­sional services firms, should “trash the timesheet” and implement “value pricing.” The basic concept is sound: Timesheets treat the chargeable hour as the measure of the firm’s services’ value, which distorts its true value to the client and further commoditizes […]

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David Rachford has floated the novel (to say the least) idea of marketing a public accounting firm using MySpace.com. For the last couple weeks — I’ve been wondering — With MySpace.com becoming the most popular website in the world — does that matter to me? (I don’t have a myspace account — thank you) but […]

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I celebrated the end of accoun­tants’ busy season last night with our firm’s annual “tax party”, which was held at a local watering hole and we had an entire section reserved for us. Free drinks and free food, it was a heck of a night. Great way to celebrate a job well done from January […]

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