If you haven't found them yourselves, let me introduce you to an exciting new set of services from the fantastic, innovative Accountants Circle. This is something rather different. The Accountants Circle offers a unique approach to working with accountants.
The focus is on value, and how that value is delivered. While The Accountants Circle provides accountants with quality website development and a variety of outsourced services, it's actually the guts of their membership concept that is really different.
At the moment many of you in practice, particularly the smaller practices, use a variety of tools and templates sourced from all sorts of people and places to help you deliver your service. It can be great to get your hands on something that helps, but often these require a fair knowledge of Excel and changes to formula each time they're used... so they can still be time consuming. Sometimes you or your team spend time creating new templates to do this when nothing else seems easily accessible.
The Accountants Circle start with the premise that most accountant-provided services are not greatly different from one other. So as a member of the Circle you can access tools designed by accountants for accountants. And stop re-inventing the wheel! The Accountants Circle draws on the experiences of its own team, along with the input and demand of its members in providing you with an ongoing development service. This is peer-based collaboration and leverage at its best, albeit with a small monthly membership fee.
As this venture grows, I'm quite curious to see just what they'll be able to offer accountants. At the moment some of the tools are certainly interesting and should prove great value for many accountants in practice, especially those that deal with SMEs. These do come personally branded for the practice and can make for some great marketing/promotional tools too.
Examples? Where shall I start? Let's try, templates for: preparing management accounts, providing budgets and projections, managing assets and their depreciation. Remember, if these templates don't suit your needs, you can have them modified by The Accountants Circle. The same goes for new templates. If you are looking for a template that's not there yet, ask them to do it for you! In other words, a bespoke service. For such a modest monthly membership contribution, it shouldn't be hard to quickly recoup the cost against the value gained in terms of time saved, plus quality and assurance.
So, what are you waiting for. Just click here and see for yourself.
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