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
125 episodes
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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1:04:28
Vangelis Kyriazis, Co-founder and CEO at Syft Analytics
How do you take the customer’s viewpoint of your accounting firm’s service offering from a 'would-like' to a 'must-have' perspective, as when you get to 'must-have' they're more likely to buy more and to pay more because the perceived value is ...
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1:02:02
Mark Walker, CEO of VFD Pro
The key question – how do you and your firm make a difference? – makes a difference in the conversations you have with your current team members when it comes to connecting them up with the real meaning behind what you're doing. Mak...
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1:04:32
Reza Hooda, firm owner, coach, mentor and author
If you or a loved one is unfortunate enough to need a medical or surgical procedure, chances are you'd prefer, for example, to have a kidney transplant specialist, if you needed a kidney transplant, rather than consulting with a general practit...
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1:03:14
Steve Pipe, speaker and author - Advisors to the Profession series
As we approached our 100th edition of the Humanise The Numbers podcast, we found choosing someone to invite as the guest a bit challenging. But then we thought, what if we could make a global impact by having the right standard of guest, one th...
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1:02:34
Subarna Banerjee, Managing Partner at UHY Hacker Young LLP and Chairman of UHY International, Leadership Development series
It's easy for us to assume you want a more successful firm. You also probably want a more enjoyable place to work. I guess the big question is, which comes first – a more enjoyable firm or a more successful, more profitable firm? On...
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59:50
Ashley Leeds, coach, trainer, mentor and author - Advisors to the Profession series
When you start to unpack the value and the importance of your team being connected with the vision and the future goals of your business, you know you're in a position to acquire some insight and to deliver actions and decisions that will suppo...
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57:39
Paul Richmond of theGrogroup, speaker, consultant and coach - Advisors to the profession Series
What happens when you put two business leaders, both of whom serve the leadership and management teams of accounting firms, into a podcast discussion? Well, you end up with a bit of a fireside chat, a very candid fireside chat, that unpacks a n...
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1:14:49
Conrad Ford and Sophie Hossack of Allica Bank - Advisors to the Profession series
It's not surprising that I'd be so excited about welcoming two of the leaders of the fastest growing tech company in the UK and, according to Deloitte's, the third fastest growing tech company of all time, Allica Bank. On this Human...
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