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."
Humanise The Numbers - for ambitious accountants in practice
Michael Carthy of Carthy Accountants - Advisory Series
What does it take to capture and demonstrate the value you're delivering to your clients?
In this podcast discussion you'll hear from Michael Carthy of Carthy Accountants in Stafford.
Michael talks about the 'value register' they keep for every one of their 300 limited company clients and how he's skilled up his team to ask the goals questions - what do you want to achieve for your business, for your life - even?
This is because Michael and his team are passionate about helping their clients achieve a better life, not just a better business.
So, what does it take to to get trained accountants to ask business owners - "what do you want for your life ahead?"
Michael's cracked that one! Every year, for every client, he's captured a 'value register' that shows at least one of the three 'freedoms' that Michael talks about in this podcast discussion.
The three freedoms they want for their clients around time, time to do what business owners really want to do, the money that enables them to do it and the peace of mind that comes from running a business with confidence and certainty, partly because they've got the right accountancy firm working alongside them.
So why not please join me on this Humanise The Numbers podcast discussion with Michael Carthy.
I hope you enjoy this discussion as much as I have. When on this episode page, please scroll down for the contact information for Michael and to find additional resources mentioned in the podcast.