Create a Path for Your Employees: Why Milestones Matter More than Goals

Milestones Create Opportunities for Check-Ins Every company has goals for their fiscal and calendar years. Improving processes, getting more clients, and reducing wasteful expenses are goals for every business. SMART or actionable goals are even better: the more direct and simple an action is, the more likely it is to be adopted or put into regular practice. But some goals are just too big to stand alone. Increasing sales by fifteen percent this quarter feels impossible. Finishing the annual audit a month in advance when the deadline is eleven months away doesn’t seem like something you need to start on
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What Should Your Accounting Firm Outsource?

Streamlining by Outsourcing Key Tasks Outsourcing has been a politically hot topic for decades, and the negative connotations are fairly entrenched. But the Internet and the countless creation of new services it has allowed for give accounting firms too many advantages to dismiss them out of hand. If you want to focus on streamlining your business, consider outsourcing these two elements to third-party service providers: Who is protecting your business network? Hacks and data leaks are in the news every week, and it’s not just large corporations who are targeted. Whether you run your business out of your home office
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5 Pointers to Grow Your Practice by Networking Effectively

Networking Effectively To Grow Your Business You grow your client base in a lot of ways; networking is one of the most common and least expensive. But as with the elevator pitch, which we discussed in an earlier blog, there is the effective way and the way most people do it. Effective networking brings in new business for a number of reasons; one of them is because when you network effectively you stand out from the crowd, and that is always good in any crowded marketplace. The other is because you actually do it well, you are welcomed and seen as a valuable source
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3 Tips to Deconstruct Your Business Practices in the New Year

Deconstruct Business Practices to Help Grow Your Business You’re probably aiming high for the coming year. You might want to grow your business exponentially, increasing revenue, marketing and net profits as much as possible. There’s a lot of enthusiasm.  But have you thought things through enough? Here are a few ideas on how you can deconstruct business practices bit by bit and eliminate all those little things that get in the way:  When was the last time you did something new in your business? A lot of accountants think they just need to do more of what they’re doing right
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