A lifetime of skills for businesses
Business Advisory Services Update
Andrew Geddes has developed a lifetime of skills as an accountant, university lecturer, joint founder of the Financial Management Research Centre (FMRC) at the University of New England, founding Chairman of GreenCross Ltd for 10 years – a company which became a top 200 ASX company – has utilised that knowledge and commercial experience in his keynote comments relating to “Changing from compliance dominance to business advisory services” in this week’s ESS BIZTOOLS Business Advisory Services Podcast.
Andrew was the “public face” of FMRC, which delivered professional management training for accountants all over Australia and New Zealand – encouraging accountants to broaden their business activities to include business advice, to assist SMEs to operate improved businesses.
Andrew’s current activities include:
- Strategic planning facilitator for professional service firms
- External chairman for professional firms and SMEs
- Managing Director coach
- Senior leadership team coach
- Succession planning specialist
- Keynote speaker
- With specialist services in:
- Leadership development
- Team building
- Price strategy
- Brand consulting
- Business consulting
In the ESS BIZTOOLS Business Advisory Services Podcast, Andrew discusses a wide range of issues affecting accountants implementing services beyond compliance, to assist SME clients to improve their business performance with comments on:
- Trends in our market…
- A couple of questions for you to consider…
- What is a basic external CFO service offering?
- What other needs do SMEs have that a basic external CFO service offering could meet?
- Ask a receptive client some questions…
- Who will be in business?
- Who will be able to afford you?
- What type of work do you want to do?
- What role to you want to play?
- Examples of firms making the change…
- Example of a fee proposal…
- “Scaling up” your business or organisation …
- “Scaling up” 7 steps…
- A pragmatic framework for strategic planning…
- Actions you might take…
- Some books to read and blogs to watch…
This podcast episode will be available on Wednesday morning.
In the meantime, you’re most welcome to listen to our previous podcast episodes – click here.
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