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
163 episodes
Dominic Ashley-Timms, Speaker, CEO and Author of The Answer is a Question
One of the most influential and, I think, most important books I've read in recent times is The Answer is a Question, by Dominic Ashley-Timms. It’s important because it lays out a clear pathway to transforming the quality of conversati...
Martin Wardle of TH Ward
What persuaded Martin Wardle to give up a partnership in one of the fastest growing firms in the Northeast to start his own business, not in general accountancy, but as a specialist tax boutique focusing only on tax returns. What we...
Derek Granger of Aris Growth
Given the current pace of technology, how can you know how it will impact your firm?Well, you obviously can't know for sure, but isn't it good to get an insider's viewpoint on how technology will change things? In this podcas...
Luke Farren of The Modern Firm
When we discuss technology in relation to accounting, it seems that there has been a rapid pace of change with technology for years now, and it's only accelerating. And with the advancements in artificial intelligence, perhaps the speed of chan...
Gareth Burton of Assure UK
When someone with an engineering background moves into accountancy, what skills do they bring along with them? What struck me in this podcast with Gareth Burton of Assure UK was Gareth's curiosity about the way that accountancy is c...
Phil Hobden, Head of Business Development at Sage
How do you ensure that you are continually delivering value to clients, so that they never question the fees that you charge, especially in this volatile, uncertain world in which we're living? In this podcast with Phil Hobden of Sa...
Paul Miller, founder of Cornish Accounting Solutions
As an accountant, do you think of yourself first and foremost as a storyteller? Probably not. And I've not met many who do. But in this podcast episode with Paul Miller of Cornish Accounting Solutions, that's exactly what I found. P...
Jonathan Gaunt of FD Works
Occasionally, you have the privilege of having a deep conversation with someone who's well-versed in the profession, has worked in industry, has set up multiple businesses, who runs his own accountancy practice and, at the same time, is doing e...
Donna Field, Founder and Director of Autumn HR
When adversity strikes, how do you react? In this podcast with Donna Field of Autumn HR, we discuss how she faced adversity in the form of a business, one in which she was emotionally and financially invested, disappearing overnight...
Steve Price of BWP Inspire
What does leading your ambitious accounting firm with purpose actually entail? In this podcast with Steve Price of BWP Inspire, Steve shares how they arrived at their core purpose, as well as how they've rolled it out and how they lead with pur...
Caroline Carter of Carter Clear Accounting
Think about the traditional route most accountants follow before going into practice. In this podcast, I explore the route taken by Caroline Carter, of Carter Clear Accounting. You'll find Caroline's route anything but traditional.&...
Noel Guilford, Founder and CEO of Guilford Accounting
How do you get your clients to take monthly information from you, and not only to take that monthly information, but to sit down with you and go through it so that they can fully understand their numbers? In this podcast with Noel G...
Alasdair McGill, Managing Director of Ashton McGill
When you have a background in the big four accounting firms, a background in design thinking and a background with a deep desire to be curious and ask lots of great questions... …how does that all come together when you set up...
Miranda Kendall, MD of Spotlight Reporting
When your background is in the corporate world and in the world of startups, how do you harness that experience when it comes to trying to sell a product to accountants that you know that they want, while sometimes dealing with resistance from ...
Graeme Tennick, Chief Impact Officer at Tennick Accountants
How many firms do you know that have a Chief Impact Officer? Yep, me neither. So, you may want to join this podcast with myself and Graeme Tennick, of Tennick Accountants, as Graeme talks about his role and about how and why it came into being....
Laura Taylor, Founder of Bright Flamingo
What's it like to start an accounting firm with £200, to grow it quickly over a period of five years, and then to decide to exit? And from the start of that exit conversation to completion, for it to take only 25 days? We'll cover a...
Elinor Perry, Managing Director of Pentlands Accountants
A pressing question that every firm, every leader, every manager, should ask themselves is: how do you build long-standing trust with your clients and with your team? In this podcast with Elinor Perry of Pentlands, you'll hear...
Alan Farrelly, Managing Director at UHY Farrelly Dawe White Limited
How must it feel to found and to grow, over a period of almost 40 years, a busy, vibrant firm, from humble beginnings to over a hundred people?In this podcast with Alan Farrelly of UHY Farrelly Dawe White, based in Ireland, you'll find o...
John F Thompson - CEO Wisdom in Practice
There is a thing that’s been talked about in the profession for decades, something which has never really got traction in every firm in a leveraged way. It works in some firms in a small way and in a very few firms in a big way. It’s that thing...
Russell Watkins - Lean Transformation Expert & Co-founder @ SempaiGuide
When you're trying to unlock the potential that you know exists within your team, within your client bank, within your firm as a whole, it can feel frustrating that you just can't seem to get to it, you can't unlock it. In this podc...
Sherelyn Cowles, Chief Business Development Officer at Gooding Accounts
We know that recruiting great people and keeping them is a huge challenge for your accounting firm, so how do you stand out from the crowd? In this podcast with Sherelyn Cowles, Chief Business Development Officer at Gooding Accounts...
Stuart Clark, Managing Director at Russell + Russell
What does a succession plan look and feel like from the perspective of those that are buying in? And once you’ve got that buy-in, how do you actually manage the expectations of your team and your clients, all while finding out yours...
Mark Allen, Co founder of the TAG Community
If there's a phrase that encapsulates the content of this podcast discussion with Mark Allen, it would be 'applied wisdom'. We tap into Mark's several decades of working within the profession, first as a board director of PLCs, then...