Regardless of whether you’ve planned starting your practice for months or you’ve started at short notice, it’s highly likely that the dilemma and uncertainty over where your next clients will come from will be a constant cause of anxiety until you have enough to make sure bills are paid. Where you find your clients will very much depend on your approach – do you want to work with anyone, what… Read more
There will be a period as your practice grows, that you have spare capacity. You can be very responsive to client’s request, regardless of how urgent they are. You will be happy to accept clients with any type of records – paper, spreadsheet, desktop software, cloud software. Maybe even brown paper bag jobs! No bother, you’re keen, hungry and you need the work. But be careful. If you don’t get… Read more
Recognising that your accountancy practice isn’t working the way you want is the first step. At this point it’s natural to feel a sense of overwhelming anxiety and think “where do I start?!” It can feel like there’s so much to do and that it all needs to be done at the same time. This happened to me a few years ago. My practice had increased fee income by 30%… Read more