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the trouble with debt

The Trouble With Debt

The three ways accountants can get in trouble with debt financing their practice are: Using short term debt to make long term investments. Doing ...
Money back gaurantee

Service Guarantee

The 18th century entrepreneur Josiah Wedgewood pioneered the satisfaction-or-money-back guarantee as a marketing strategy on the entire range of his pottery products. He took ...
new services

Introducing New Services to Existing Clients

This strategy is about creating new services that you can provide to your existing client base.  It is similar to the low hanging fruit ...
strategic pricing

Strategic pricing

Pricing is the process whereby a business sets the price at which it will sell its products and services. In setting prices, the business ...
KPI

Accounting Practices KPI’s

An accounting practice’s key performance indicators (KPIs) are the set of quantifiable measures that are used to gauge or compare performance in terms of ...
Failure to change

Practice Sin 4 – Failing to Change  

As the business environment changes, practice owners must change. The ‘old’ ways of doing things must be changed when technology makes the new ways ...
Sturgeon's 90 percent

Sturgeon’s Law – 90% of Accountants

Sturgeon's revelation - commonly referred to as Sturgeon's Law, is an adage commonly cited as ‘ninety percent of everything is crap’. It is derived ...
strategic planning

Importance of Strategic Planning

A business strategic plan details the methods by which a business sets out to achieve its objectives. Typically a business strategy will cover a ...
purple cow in field

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 ...
cost leadership accounting

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 ...