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Recruitment: Technical Fit Vs Culture Fit Blog

Recruitment: Technical Fit Vs Culture Fit

Running an accountancy practice, a big part of our recruitment activity involves bringing in people to fulfill various technical roles, but the expectation of an…

Amanda Wilcox

The Numbers Behind Your Revenue Pipeline – Existing & New Clients Blog

The Numbers Behind Your Revenue Pipeline – Existing & New Clients

In every agency, it’s important to have a running 90-day view of your revenue pipeline. Your revenue pipeline is everything in addition to already confirmed…

Paul Barnes

The 5 Key Features of The Best Revenue Forecasts Blog

The 5 Key Features of The Best Revenue Forecasts

At MAP, we’re on a mission to empower agencies to become the best they can be and to hit all their objectives. We believe that…

David Arden

Up Front Billing: A Key Digital Agency KPI Blog

Up Front Billing: A Key Digital Agency KPI

Retained work is the lifeblood of any agency. Monthly retainers might not be particularly exciting in terms of varied work but they help agency owners…

Paul Barnes

How To Plan For Your Survival Goal – There’s Light At The End Of The Tunnel! Blog

How To Plan For Your Survival Goal – There’s Light At The End Of The Tunnel!

Every business goes through peaks and troughs in its lifecycle, especially in the agency world when so many are reliant on project-based revenue. Combine that…

David Arden

Producing A Budget Is THE Most Important Thing You Can Do As A Business Owner… Blog

Producing A Budget Is THE Most Important Thing You Can Do As A Business Owner…

As a business owner producing a budget is one of, if not, the most important thing that you can do. It’s a chance to project…

Paul Bell

Choosing Your End Goal Blog

Choosing Your End Goal

If you work with any business consultant they are likely to emphasise the importance of knowing your exit strategy. The logic being that you build…

Paul Barnes

The 4 Cash Flow Tools Every Agency Needs To Have In Place Blog

The 4 Cash Flow Tools Every Agency Needs To Have In Place

Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, cash is reality. With 95% of costs in an agency being paid either straight away or exactly when they…

Paul Barnes

The Difference Between Finance and Accounting Blog

The Difference Between Finance and Accounting

So, whats the difference? The words finance and Accounting are often used interchangeably so the general view is that they mean the same thing. In…

Paul Barnes

Protect Your Capacity & Maximise Your Profit Blog

Protect Your Capacity & Maximise Your Profit

If I’m already paying my team anyway, we might as well put extra hours in for a client hadn’t we? When you grow a business's…

Paul Barnes

Don’t leave your financial performance to chance. Blog

Don’t leave your financial performance to chance.

As a business owner you probably know that you should sit down and prepare a budget, but you’re not sure when you should do it…

Paul Bell

Auto Enrolment Changes… Are you ready? Blog

Auto Enrolment Changes… Are you ready?

Everything That You Need To Know About The Recent Auto Enrolment Changes So you may have been bombarded by the recent Auto Enrolment changes... at…

Rachel Moran

How To Position Your Agency For Higher Profits Blog

How To Position Your Agency For Higher Profits

Your agency’s brand positioning is similar to a vortex. When a vortex is first beginning to form it’s small and relatively weak, but as it…

Guest Post

How to tell your accountant you are moving on Blog

How to tell your accountant you are moving on

Breaking up is never an easy thing to do, but even the best of relationships can run their course. Obviously in this case I’m referring…

Penny

Find YOUR Price Blog

Find YOUR Price

DON'T get discouraged - Agency owners often get discouraged by being knocked back on price. If your instant reaction when a prospect rejects you because…

Paul Barnes

More Money, More Time, Less Stress. Blog

More Money, More Time, Less Stress.

Our first Lancaster Digital Roundtable!   Last week we hosted our first Lancaster Digital Roundtable with the help of Digital Lancashire, we had what you…

Paul Barnes

Streamlined banking at last, with Tide & MAP Blog

Streamlined banking at last, with Tide & MAP

Why did we partner with Tide?    My Accountancy Place has recently decided to take the step into building an official partnership with Tide. Why?…

Paul Barnes

Is systems the answer for healthy growth? Blog

Is systems the answer for healthy growth?

Paul Barnes interviews Natasha Vorompiova on Systems   Where did it all start? So I imagine you are like most small business owners, you started really,…

Penny Barnes

What is a Discovery Call? Blog

What is a Discovery Call?

Why A Discovery Call? We have been asked many questions about what a discovery call is so I thought I would summarise exactly what it…

Penny

Digital Roundtable – Tony Lacey | More Money, More Time, Less Stress Blog

Digital Roundtable – Tony Lacey | More Money, More Time, Less Stress

We have our last Digital Roundtable of the year approaching with only 2 weeks to go until it’s underway! We’ve been running the event in…

Penny Barnes