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
115 episodes
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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1:08:02
Christine Nicholson, Business Mentor and Exit Planner, Advisors to the Profession series
One of the deepest, most valuable, conversations you can have with your business owner/business leader clients is in regard to the future of the business without them. It's about exit planning and succession, about preparing the business for th...
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1:02:38
Darren Glanville of Fathom
It’s stating the blatantly obvious that, when you and your team build the knowledge, the skills and the habits that result in a deeper, more trusting, more valuable relationship with your clients, you'll end up with a more successful firm. ...
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1:03:02
Simon Chaplin, Author and Owner of Greenstones
If you've led a six-person accounting firm with a turnover of £250,000 and built it over the years into a £1.5-million firm with 22 people, you'd rightly feel a sense of pride and satisfaction in what you'd achieved. You might, thou...
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1:00:41
Daniel Hood, editor-in-chief of Accounting Today
If you are brilliant or remarkable or just getting better at leading and managing your team, personalising and humanising how you work with them, and you’re brilliant or remarkable or getting better at working with your clients, then you’re goi...
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58:59
Elona Mortimer-Zhika, CEO of Iris - Leadership and Culture and Purpose Series
When a business leader that has 3000 team members and works across several countries, several continents, even, shares their insights on what’s working within the accountancy profession and how to make their business more successful, I’m all ea...
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1:03:35
Robert Fiford and djca Chartered Accountants
It can't be easy to transform an accountancy firm from one that's charging clients about £200 a month to one that's charging clients in excess of £1000 pounds a month. It can't be easy to grow from scratch an offshoring team out in ...
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1:05:47
Claire Evans of All In Place
Don't you agree that it would be profoundly useful if you could get a sideways view of what's going on in the accounting profession, a sideways view from a fellow financial professional, but through a different lens? On this
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59:51
Katie Hawking of Dext
I found it profoundly, remarkably, valuable to enter into a podcast discussion with someone who has a really broad perspective across the profession – someone who spent 15 years in practice, someone who has worked at technology companies such a...
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1:04:36
Rachel Harris, Founder of @accountant_she® & striveX®
It can't be easy, can it, to grow a firm from one person to 18 in just three years and to take your client numbers from 50 to 700 within the same time frame? Well, that's exactly what Rachel Harris of the accountancy firm striveX ha...
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1:05:12
Alastair Barlow, flinder CEO and co-founder - Leadership series
What does it take to grow an accounting business from its initial two founders to 40 people in five years? Great question.What does it take to grow an accounting business which generates average fees per client of £30,000? Another great ...
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