COVID-19 has taken an enormous human toll and affected significant economic and financial markets for close to two years. The accounting industry has not remained immune from the impact of this still raging pandemic. It has seen firms move to a remote work model and scramble to leverage the various accounting and collaboration technologies to adapt to these challenging times. Firms steeped in tradition suddenly found themselves like a fish out of water, as they have realized the ‘the good ol’ ways aren’t going to work anymore. Agility, flexibility, capacity building, and adding new efficiencies are the need of the hour, and all this must happen without busting the bank. A Learning for Accounting Firms Today’s accounting firms realize they must plan for ‘the anything can happen scenario’. For that to happen they should be able to bake resilience into their processes, the kind of resilience that fosters growth. Legacy revenue streams must be optimized, and new ones must be identified, explored, captured, and leveraged. Resilience and future-proofing of firms are the need of the hour. This is only possible with disruptive decision-making that will transform the three critical pillars of your accounting firm – People, Processes, and Platforms. Modern accounting firms and CPAs mustn’t get trapped within the limitations of ‘don’t fix what isn’t broken’ thinking. While the existing work processes aren’t broken, they might be doing nothing to make the firm more competitive, agile, flexible, and geared towards growth. The 21st Century Beckons Firms whose focus is evolution lead the progression to 21st Century firms. From purely service-oriented firms, they should transform into a collective of ‘most trusted advisors to their clients, focused upon value-added services while driving efficiencies in current services through restructuring, refocusing, and outsourcing foundational (often commoditized) services. But, how do you make the progression to being a firm that’s got all its bases covered and is laying the foundation for a services infrastructure that can battle all odds? Irrespective of the challenges, accounting firms can always have an eye on the future and succeed? This is precisely the question that Pramith Naidu and Michael Simms will answer as they walk you through the insights and strategies that can grow your accounting firm. Their focus will be on helping your firm evolve into a ‘trusted advisor’ to marquee clients. This can be done by scaling existing services and exploring new ones. Join Us on Tuesday, 24th August, 2 PM EST/ 11 AM PT for a webinar on: Rethink Traditional Accounting Processes – Drive Firm Growth and Profits with Existing and New Revenue Streams Pramith Naidu is an old hand at identifying the right accounting outsourcing solutions for growth-focused accounting firms. He works with firms to identify their pain points and build a roadmap that drives scalability, capacity, flexibility, and efficiencies through outsourcing. Having spent almost a decade in the accounting outsourcing industry he knows what works and what doesn’t. Michael is a business coach who has a successful track record of helping business leaders grow their wealth by strengthening value throughout their businesses. He uncovers and identifies unconventional, non-traditional avenues for growth and helps prepare a roadmap that allows businesses to achieve this growth. What You Will Learn in this Webinar: Don’t Think of Firm Evolution as a Better Mousetrap Disruption is Moving Away from Restrictive Traditional Methodologies and Evolving to Proactive Value-Based Service Engagements The Goal Should be ROI-Driven Business Transformation Technology is an Important Instigator in the evolution of Accounting Outsourcing or Remote Staffing is a Strategic Investment for Building Much-Needed Efficiencies Two–Fold Advantage of Accounting Firm Evolution Through Remote Staffing– Increased Current Revenue Streams (Scale them low-cost) and Build additional revenue streams. Drive more profitable revenue, more effectively aligned headcount, and ‘client stickiness’ to access more revenue streams Change, Disruption, and Evolution are not Buzz Word. All firms, irrespective of size, scale, or scope, want to achieve sustainable growth. As a firm, you can go about it the hard way or the smart way. This webinar talks about taking the proper steps and achieving a more innovative way towards growth. Register for it NOW! Indrajeet Pradhan My name is Indrajeet Pradhan and I am the Marketing Manager for QX Accounting Services – North America, and wordsmith behind the QXAS blog. Hope you enjoyed reading this piece. My job is to help accountants access the knowledge they seek through blogs, guides, and other content assets that are meaningful and actionable. Unauthorized copying or plagiarism of our content is a violation of intellectual property rights. We take such matters seriously and will pursue legal action to protect our original work. Anyone found engaging in such activities will be held accountable under applicable laws. Originally published Aug 18, 2021 06:08:06, updated Aug 09 2024 Topics: Accounting, bookkeeping, Industry, Leadership, Outsourcing Don't forget to share this post! 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