Blogs catching on for BDO in the UK

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 atContinue reading “Blogs catching on for BDO in the UK”

Now that’s a niche

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 commoditizesContinue reading “Now that’s a niche”

Using MySpace to market professional accounting services

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) butContinue reading “Using MySpace to market professional accounting services”

Busy season comes to an end!

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 JanuaryContinue reading “Busy season comes to an end!”