Successfully Transition from Your Office to a Virtual Business

Successfully Transition from Your Office to a Virtual Business

Transition from Your Office to a Virtual Business If you’ve been on the fence about going fully virtual, now’s the time to do it. The available technology makes switching over easier than when I did it in 2009.  As you know, many tasks once done manually...
Boldly Declare You Only Work with Ideal Clients

Boldly Declare You Only Work with Ideal Clients

Don’t Agree to Every Request Because you want to help, saying no feels difficult. Of course you agree to do things when asked. Later when you’re alone, you regret agreeing to the request. This is especially true with new clients. Someone wants to hire you to manage...
Quit Working Below Your Pay Grade

Quit Working Below Your Pay Grade

Working Below Your Pay Grade Start-ups deserve credit for all the work done to get a business up and running. As the owner, you fill all the roles. By the end of the day, you’re exhausted. You’re working below your pay grade, but lack the resources to get those...
7 Pricing Pitfalls that are Leaving Money on the Table

7 Pricing Pitfalls that are Leaving Money on the Table

Leaving Money on the Table The 4 hour work week is a catchy book title. But, that’s not the reality for most accounting professionals. They’d happily trade in a sixty hour work week for a forty hour week – especially during tax season. Fortunately, a solution...
Tracking Time is Costly

Tracking Time is Costly

Don’t Limit Your Income Does tracking time feel like a hassle? Like many accounting professionals, you do it anyway since profitability and time are linked together. Time, as you know, is finite. This pricing strategy, which sells your time, literally caps your...
Wonder Woman Syndrome: Avoid This Highly Common Path to Burnout

Wonder Woman Syndrome: Avoid This Highly Common Path to Burnout

Your Jam Packed Schedule As an accounting professional, you set exceptionally high standards for yourself. You aim to be all things to all people, juggling multiple roles between home and your accounting practice. The day starts very, very early. The sun starts to...