by Sandi Leyva | Nov 7, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
As compliance services become more commoditized and automated, accountants are faced with how this affects their practice and their bottom line. They can: Serve a higher level client that requires greater complexity, making themselves fairly immune to these...
by Sandi Leyva | Oct 31, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
Many of my readers are QuickBooks ProAdvisors who offer QuickBooks consulting to their clients; you may be one of them. Here are the opportunities I see to expand your client services in the area of QuickBooks consulting, or for that matter, any accounting...
by Sandi Leyva | Oct 23, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
Every business needs to do some level of bookkeeping for a couple of reasons: 1) Various government agencies require reporting and payments based on the company’s results. 2) The owner needs a certain amount of information to manage their business and keep...
by Sandi Leyva | Oct 17, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
I feel extremely fortunate to have such a wonderful set of clients that I have learned much from the last few years. Here is a list of lessons learned that I hope will inspire you to work with your clients in new ways. Lesson 1: Help Clients with...
by Sandi Leyva | Oct 2, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
With three months to go in 2012, it’s a good time to take stock of where we stand for the year, plus re-group as needed before the 2013 busy season is upon us. With so many changes in software, politics, tax laws, and global standards, it’s pretty easy to feel a...
by Sandi Leyva | Sep 25, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
It’s not uncommon for even the smallest of businesses to have employees and contractors all over the world. Right now, I have an employee in the Ukraine, two employees in San Jose, a virtual admin in Orange County, a warehouse team in Indiana, a transcriptionist...