Posted: 24 June 2015
The accountancy market is changing
Has your firm developed strategies for:
At the 2014 ATSA Conference, Jason Bender of Deloitte said, “If accountants are not really careful, the profession could really suffer. Don’t let this happen on our watch!”
There’s a need for a transition to a new range of services for accountants to consider.
ESS BIZTOOLS provides a range of products and services, which will assist accountancy businesses to better position themselves in 2015/16 to offer these services.
First of all, we have a full suite of programs on assisting firms in preparing to offer business advisory services.
Then we have a range of products that are pre-prepared, ready for accountants to use to earn professional fees from business advisory services. These include:
- Digital Disruption – Deloitte has forecast a 32% change for accountancy businesses. Should your firm be replenishing revenue streams?
- Standard Business Reporting (SBR) – the ATO has forecast a minimum of $500M per annum “red tape reduction” and all of this is predicted to come from accountancy fees.
- Cashflow Management – in October 2014, the Second Commissioner of the ATO has advised accountants to become consultants to small/medium enterprises, to assist them to better manage their cashflows.
- Surveys of small/medium enterprises have indicated that they want more services from accountants. The CCH report, “SMEs – the fine line between failure and success”, identified that small/medium enterprises wanted some additional services, such as:
- management of costs
- management monitoring
- business plans
- assistance in raising capital or loan funds
- expansion advice

- Product Modules
- Debtors’ Management
- Cashflow Management
- Personal Property Securities Register Due Diligence System
- Chief Financial Officer Services
- Succession Planning
- Leadership Modules – to assist the accountancy businesses to develop some leadership training that can be offered to clients.
- Papers and Articles – for clients to read and understand more about business operations.
- Government Grant Identification – are your clients receiving their fair share of government grants? They are there for all businesses, not just a select few.
- Client Mentoring – material to assist in general business advice to your clients so that they’re better prepared to meet the challenges of the marketplace.
- Regular monthly newsletter accountants can badge and send to their clients.
- Client Seminar/Webinar programmes that can be delivered by individual accountancy firms.
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