Featuring Trevor Marchant of Marchant Dallas, this podcast discusses the latest article produced by The Boss Factor Library. You can also access our podcast on: Amazon Music Apple Podcast Audible Spotify YouTube

The SME market in Australia is now estimated to be around 2.5 million businesses. Many of them aspire to “scale up” by offering new services and expanding employment opportunities as they seek out new markets both in Australia and overseas. These businesses need advice, just the same as the CEO operating a larger business needs advice. The real difference is that larger businesses employ most of the expertise that might be required in-house, whereas the vast majority of SMEs cannot afford to...

Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS and Mark Holton, Director of SmithInk discuss How Accountants could navigate the market conditions that their SME clients are encountering in 2023/2024 with some insights from the Accountants Boot Camp and the Thomson Reuters White Paper

This podcast episode is presented by Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS, and Andrew Geddes, the “public face” of FMRC. They discuss a wide range of issues affecting accountants implementing services beyond compliance, to assist SME clients to improve their business performance. You can also access our podcast on: Amazon Music Apple Podcast Audible Spotify YouTube  

This podcast episode explains how a 52-week service is a great strategy that will bring growth, not just to your SME clients, but also to your firm. You can also access our podcast on: Amazon Music Apple Podcast Audible Spotify YouTube

In this podcast episode, Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS, addresses the question some accountants/bookkeepers ask, “Why should we get involved in Research and Development?”

Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS, conducted an interview with one of his consulting clients, Duane Hunter. They discussed Duane’s “innovation journey”, which highlights the need for accountants to provide assistance to enable their SME clients achieve their objective of being able to turn their invention into a profitable, marketable product.

Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS, and Trevor Marchant, Managing Director of Marchant Dallas, discuss the best use of The Boss Factor Library for Accountants, so not only you can generate more revenue but also attract and retain talent.

We believe in the importance of after-sales service or ‘AFTERS’ being critical in the delivery of Financial Storytelling. This podcast summarises the ‘AFTERS’ that we at ESS BIZTOOLS will provide when you subscribe to one of our packages.

Peter Towers, Managing Director, ESS BIZTOOLS and Jordan Lowry, Director, Blackstone Business Group discuss attraction and retention of accountants and other issues facing businesses.

Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS and Paul Barnaby, Regional Integration Consultant for PlanGuru and Managing Director of Beyond Accounting Technologies discuss using PlanGuru software to enhance Financial Forecasting.

Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS discusses why Research and Development is very important for SMEs.

Peter Towers, Managing Director, ESS BIZTOOLS talks abut the Introduction to Virtual CFO Delivery, including the report card on the Australian Accounting Industry by the CommBank Market Pulse.

Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS, present a podcast incorporating R&D – whilst not perfect, is important for SMEs and Are you aware of domain registration problems for SMEs?

Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS and Brad Smart, Director of Pinecam discuss the benefits of Accountants producing newsletters for their clients/prospects.

Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS together with Mark Holton, Director of SmithInk discuss the Australian Accounting Industry and Overseas Accounting Industries.

Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOS discusses “Combating Worsening Talent Shortage!” “Accountants are facing problems” – Accounting Market Pulse. Does your accounting firm have a strategy to attract and retain staff? Andrew Geddes – Australian Accountancy Guru discussed this problem with me in November 2021. “Partners of accountancy firms are saying there are not enough young accountants, but no, there are enough of them, they’ve chosen not to work in the profession because...

Peter Towers, Managing Director, ESS BIZTOOLS had a podcast discussion with Paul Barnaby Managing Director, Beyond  Accounting Technologies and PlanGuru’s Regional Integration Consultant – Asia/Pacific to discuss the findings outlined in the “Accounting Market Pulse” and to outline how the Academy of CPAs (Certified Predictive Accountants) can assist accountants to deliver a broad range of value-added services that will assist clients to operate value-added  businesses and at the same time...

Are your clients carrying out research and development activities behind your back? You might be surprised to discover that many SMEs conduct their research and development activities in total secrecy. That’s because they’ve been scared off by blogs and articles warning about confidentiality and protecting intellectual property. In some cases, clients can take this a bit too far, and they may not even tell you, their accountant, what they’re up to. This is crazy stuff! These ‘sneaky’...

Let’s start today with a snap quiz! Did you read last May’s Accounting Market Pulse report and seriously think “maybe our accounting firm should be offering those Business Advisory Services to our clients?”. Now, eleven months later, have you done anything about it? Perhaps, you may still be thinking about how you’ll introduce those Business Advisory Services to your accounting team so they’ll be up to speed when you finally start talking to your clients.

The “SME Needs Analysis” is the most important component of our new ESS BIZTOOLS package offering.  This module has been based on the original research that was produced by Andrew Geddes – the Joint Founder of the Financial Management Research Centre at the University of New England.  Andrew is well known as an Accountancy Industry Consultant and for ten years was the Chair of Green Cross Ltd a top 200 ASX company.  Andrew consulted to Green Cross for thirty-five years from its beginning as a...

The Commonwealth Bank’s “Accounting Market Pulse” has predicted that business advisory services will be the number one service line to enter and grow for accountants in the next 12 months.   Business advisory services will help offset the losses from the introduction of the Australian Taxation Office’s Standard Business Reporting (SBR) and offer accountancy businesses “real accounting work” for accounting team members.   To assist accountancy businesses to get ready to deliver business...