Humanise The Numbers - for ambitious accountants in practice
Welcome to the 'Humanise The Numbers' podcast series. Here you'll find a whole series of interviews with the leaders of accounting firms who are building (or have already built) a firm of the future now! You'll hear key insights, key skills and key habits that underpin the success of these firms. Insights, skills and habits that can underpin your firm's future success too. It seems that when an accountancy firm connects their team and their clients to the numbers that really matter to them they transform the results for everyone. This is accelerated when the humanity of the way they work shines through too. That's why we're talking about ambitious accountants humanising the numbers.Here's what a director of a multi-partner multi-national firm said recently ."What I like about your podcasts is that they are real. They are not scripted and I appreciate the fact that your interviewees admit they don’t have all the answers but are willing to let you put that fact out on a podcast. It is what is going on at the front lines of great small accounting practices. I have now listened to about half of them, I intend listening to them all as each one just has a nugget that I am writing down to see if I can use in our practice at some stage."
Episodes
133 episodes
Richard Spofforth and Jennifer Williamson of Kreston Reeves
When you're fortunate enough to spend an hour or so in a deep discussion with two members of the leadership team of a 600-person firm, a team that have profoundly and consistently improved their firm's performance over the years, it's definitel...
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1:06:32
Rhys Madoc - Chief Executive Officer at UHY International
It's a rare privilege to sit down with the leader of a top 20, global firm and chew the fat about the way the industry, the profession, is changing. So it's worthwhile listening to this discussion with Rhys Madoc, CEO of UHY Interna...
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56:06
Billie Mcloughlin of 2020 Innovation Training Ltd
It's just brilliant to have a chance to speak to an accountant who has worked in practice – right at the centre of adopting technology – who then moves on to being a provider to the accountancy profession. But rather than being a provider of so...
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1:04:49
Richard Brewin and Richard Bertin of All in Place
In business, one thing that's absolutely certain is that a client’s perception of your firm is connected to their expectation of what you'll deliver to them, for them, with them. In this podcast discussion with the two Richards, Ric...
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1:07:43
Transforming Numbers into Relationships
Dive into this fascinating episode where we explore how listening serves as a cornerstone in transforming client relationships within the accounting field. Our discussion highlights the extensive barriers created by ego and preconceived notions...
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1:03:08
Hayley Plimley, Director of Marketing & Communications at DJH
It's clear that, if you want to grow your accountancy firm, you need to master the art (or indeed science) of marketing and communications. On this Humanise the Numbers podcast discussion with Hayley Plimley, Marketing and Communica...
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1:00:53
Dawn Marriott - Hg Serial Chair
If you - as a leader of your team, your department, your firm, even - want to build a profoundly successful business, you'll want data at your fingertips. You'll want the data that enables you to make the best decisions and that will enable you...
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54:50
Philippa White, Founder & CEO TIE Leadership, author and speaker
Stop thinking that return on investment is what drives the financial performance of your business, and start thinking that return on humanity is the ultimate starting point, the foundation of the success of your accounting firm.&n...
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1:12:34
Jolawn Victor, Chief Growth Officer at Go Cardless
It’s sometimes easy to become distracted with the bells and whistles, the proactivity and the value-add of the way you serve and work with your clients and, as a consequence, you can lose the need, the essential need, of delivering brilliantly ...
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1:02:43
Tracy Irwin, The Time Freedom Alchemist
I recently had the great privilege to spend an hour with a business leader who had sold their business just a few days before, after 22 years. That business started in their bedroom, and they built it up over time to just short of a...
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1:05:36
Kat Wellum-Kent, CFO of Fractional Finance and Speaker
What must it feel like to leave a promising, high-flying career with a leading firm and start up your own firm – to hand your notice in and, six months later, kick-start your accountancy firm with one client?Well, that's exactly what Kat...
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1:15:31
Andrew Botham, Investor and advisor - growth stage businesses
There’s something very remarkable about the work accountants can do to transform the lives of their business owner clients, transform the results of their business, and feel a sense of pride, satisfaction and passion for the work they do. ...
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1:03:41
James Butterworth, VIP Commercial Manager and Senior Tax Consultant, Croner-i
When your clients feel at home, they tend to want to stay at home. That's a statement by James Butterworth, a tech and advisory specialist from the VIP team at Croner-i.In this podcast discussion, I was surprised by how this conversation...
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1:00:28
Stuart Hurst, Founder of Cloud 10 Accounting
When you dive into a deep conversation with a person who has worked in a village accountancy practice, someone who has also been part of a national firm and who has worked within an organisation to establish a new office, improving the fees by ...
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1:05:35
Aaron Harris, Global Chief Technology Officer for Sage
It's not every day you get the opportunity to interview the Global Chief Technology Officer of one of the landmark suppliers to the accounting profession. In this podcast discussion with Aaron Harris from Sage, we explored a f...
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1:03:35
Philippa Haynes, marketing expert and podcast host
It's not often you get the chance to chew the fat with someone who's worked with Ford, with Tata, with Levi’s, as well as with numerous other high-end, well-known, well-recognised international brands, and be able to talk to them about what ‘br...
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1:11:13
Rebecca Mihalic, Director at businessDEPOT Sydney, Head Of Accounting (APAC) at Ignition
When you listen in to a conversation with a leader of an accounting business with over 100 people, and you hear how seriously they take investment in their team now so that it delivers a return in 12, 18, 24 or even 36 months, it's well ...
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1:10:11
Craig McKell, Asia Pacific GM at AdvanceTrack
It's simply brilliant when you can spend some time with a chartered accountant, one who spent 17 years with EY down in Australia before becoming an owner-managed business buying accountancy services. Craig believes that an accountan...
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1:04:56
Andrew Van De Beek, advisor, speaker, podcast host - Leadership series
It's not every day you get to interview an accountant who's also a retailer and a podcaster, and in this discussion with Andrew Van De Beek from Australia – Andrew runs a twenty-person accountancy business in Victoria – the discussion turns alm...
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1:06:24
Nicky Clough, Director at Insight Training
When someone says to me that the numbers are the outputs, and it's the team, it's the humans, that are the inputs, you can imagine I'm all ears. In this podcast discussion with Nicky Clough of Insight Training, you'll hear Nicky unp...
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1:05:02
Nicki Savill, Partner and Head of Outsourcing at Moore Kingston Smith
If your firm is making good use of technology, and embracing new technology as well, if you are building the knowledge and skill of your team and building deeper relationships with your clients, you'll know that you’re on track for the ambitiou...
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1:08:36
Neil Parsons, Managing Director UK&I, Wolters Kluwer - Leadership Series
Sometimes the work we do is a real privilege, especially when we are able to have a deep discussion about what it means to humanise the numbers with someone who's qualified as a chartered accountant, has loved his time in practice, put his hand...
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58:10
Mike Dean of Whisper Claims
You’d probably agree that, if you get to a place where you have a strong collaborative relationship with a client and you're doing what you can to educate them and to protect the best interests of their business, you're going to be building a d...
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1:02:43
Andrew Guy and Dave Clough of FD Inteligence
Have you ever wondered how you can build greater capacity into your firm so that you free up your people to do more of the higher-value work? In this podcast discussion with Dave and Andy from FD Intelligence, we unpack the value, t...
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1:04:36
Jessica Pillow, Founder of Pillow May Accountancy
Do you know that feeling you get when you meet someone who's excited about, and who clearly loves, what they're doing, someone who is completely engaged as a leader in running their accounting firm? That joy and enthusiasm is infectious! <...
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