Practice Development News
Changing the way you do business
October 2007
In this issue

 
  • The working model for demanding clients is On Demand
  • Online Collaboration with QuickBooks Pro
  • Habitat for Humanity gets it together with e-Accounting
  • e-Accounting is everywhere!
     
  • Visit us at the Rio in Las Vegas!
     


  You are the trusted advisor
 
The accounting professional has always been seen as a business advisor - a trusted partner that understands the conditions that impact business performance. This advisor not only reports on the business performance, but may make recommendations or judgments on certain situations or processes that are key to the business model. Leveraging your direct participation in your clients' financial systems can be a very successful component of practice building - mining out other opportunities that may exist in current client engagements.

In some cases, your clients will want to process their own bookkeeping in-house. Rather than taking a hands- off approach to these clients, engage them by providing training or consulting services to support their in-house bookkeeping.

If your firm provides real-time guidance and reviews, the quality of the financial information is far better and requires less work to adjust and report. Ultimately, saving your client time and money will reward your practice with more opportunity to engage the client in other efforts.



 
Get your bunny slippers!
 
e-Accounting is all about the bunny slippers. You know - sit back, relax, put on your bunny slippers and log in. Get your work done where and when it's right for you.

Just like last year, we'll be giving away a few pairs of these stylish and comfy slippers at the Sleeter Group Accounting Software Consulting Conference. Visit our booth and drop a business card in the bowl. Maybe you'll be the lucky winner this year!



 

 
From Wikipedia: "On-Demand refers to a service or feature which addresses the user's need for instant gratification and immediacy of use. In most cases the value proposition for an on-demand service is wrapped up in the fact that the user or consumer of the service avoids a significant up-front financial investment and instead participates in a "pay as you go" plan - a model which makes on-demand services frequently more affordable for users.

 
Today's technology solutions allow you to have this type of flexibility and "instant gratification", while delivering the reliability, security and performance your business and your clients' businesses demand. By using technology to improve how you, your team members, and your clients work together, you can introduce new efficiencies into your existing business model. By using technology to your strategic advantage, you can change the way you do business and build new and more value into your services.

 
If you haven't yet involved your practice with online and Internet-based application services, you should move now to find out how they can streamline your existing processes, or even transform your practice into a firm which is ready to offer the type of "on demand" services and solutions business owners are looking for. The market has created the demand. Will you be ready to meet it?

 


 

 


 

 


 



 
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