Humanise The Numbers - for ambitious accountants in practice
Episodes
David Hassall of DH Business Support - Leadership and Advisor to the Profession Series
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It can often feel like pushing water uphill when it comes to getting your team to embrace the necessary changes to secure the future success of your f...
Elaine Godley, Advisor to the Profession and Recruitment Series
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's clear from our conversations with virtually every firm with which we work that recruiting high-quality team members, though it's always...
David Gilroy of Conscious Solutions - Marketing Series
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this HumaniseTheNumbers podcast, you’ll hear from David Gilroy – entrepreneur, business owner, marketeer and, more specifically, website expert...
John Warrillow, author and advisor to the profession
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Occasionally, on our HumaniseTheNumbers podcasts, we're privileged to welcome a guest who has deep, personal experience in a profoundly important...
Zoe Paradine of UHY Hacker Young - Marketing Series
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It can often feel like a particularly growly challenge to work out how to successfully promote and market your accountancy firm. So it pays, don'...
Scott Heath of DJH Mitten Clarke - Culture and Purpose Series, Business Development Series
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you create, build and nurture a high-growth accountancy firm? In this podcast discussion with the head of DJH Mitten Clarke, Scott Heath, you&a...
Phil Hobden of Wolters Kluwer - Culture and Purpose Series
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How you and your firm deliver great value to your clients is a common theme in the HumaniseTheNumbers podcast series. In this discussion with Phil Ho...
George Gallagher-Kennett of Pinfields - Workflow Series
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How would it feel if you and your team in your accountancy firm were able to get to January and feel completely calm, completely relaxed and completel...
Graeme Tennick of Tennick & Co - Leadership Series
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you and your managers hold accountability conversations that work really well? By really well, I mean that they work out for both the manager a...
Paul Dunn of B1G1 - Advisor to the Profession
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are very few people who are recognized within the accounting profession, worldwide, us, UK, Europe, Australasia.Paul Dunn is one of those indivi...
Karen Eber of Eber Leadership Group on Humanising the Numbers
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you as a leader or manager of an accounting firm connect in a deeper, more meaningful way with your team? How do you ensure that this connectio...
Charlotte Zacharia of Z2 - Marketing Series
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you stay ahead of the game? This is a bit of a generic question, but more specifically, how do you continue to stay ahead of your clients’ ex...
Ron Baker of VeraSage Pricing and Niche Series
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How does your accountancy firm earn the right to achieve and be comfortable with prices that are three, four, five times or more higher than you would...
Stephen Pell of Iconac - Niche Series
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Occasionally I struggle to work out how best to help an accountant or an accountancy firm connect with the real value that they deliver to their clien...
Sian Lloyd & Rebecca Johnson of Lewis Ballard - Culture and Purpose Series, Firms Humanising The Numbers
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Don't you think it pays to have a clear picture about what your firm will look like in the future, say, in five years’ time? Your firm of the f...
Paul Lodder of Dext - Technology Series
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What must it be like to spend 21 years in a firm of accountants, going through the ranks, then deciding to leave and join a technology company?In this...
Vipul Sheth of Advancetrack Outsourcing - Workflow Series
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you transform your firm’s accounts production workflow so that you free up people's time whilst simultaneously building stronger, more m...
Cliff Spolander of Business Optics - Advisor to the Profession
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It strikes me that one of the most valuable conversations you can have with a business-owner client concerns the exit from their business. When are th...
Jenny Cessini of Davies Grant - Workflow Series
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How on earth, as a firm of accountants do you manage the ever-increasing workload thanks to new clients, thanks to extra work from existing clients an...
David Belbin of Clemence Hoar Cummings - Business Development Series
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I'd be surprised if any accountant would disagree with the fact that client loyalty is the cornerstone of the fees, profits, and capital value of...
Rob Whittall of Dyke Yaxley - Specialist Series
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take for a firm, even a specialist niche firm, to grow substantially, year-on-year, for over a decade? In this podcast discussion with R...
Paul Kennedy of OBK - Pricing Series
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How on earth do you and your team, your colleagues, your firm as a whole, engage in meaningful, tangible conversations with clients, demonstrating tha...
Sian Kelly of Inform Accounting - Culture and Purpose Series, Leadership Series
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you grow an accounting firm from zero to a million in 10 years and then set about growing the 1 million pound turnover firm that you've no...
Martin Horton of Rivington Accountants - Leadership Series
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's a challenging question to ask you how committed you are to the mental well-being of your team. During tumultuous and trying times it's ...
Marie Pegram of UHY East - Strategy Series
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Leading and managing change is tough. The bigger the team, the bigger the challenge. So how do you transform an old style partner led multi-office fir...
Matt Flanagan of Blue Hub - Technology Series
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why on earth, would you take a blind bit of notice of a technologist talking about Humanise The Numbers for an accountancy practice like yours? Well,...
Mike Crook of Practice Web - Firms Humanising The Numbers
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How does an accountancy firm, how does your accountancy firm master the dark arts of marketing, so that you become successful at generating leads, hig...
Jenny Sparks of Cedar & Co - Marketing Series
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the key drivers for the future success of your accounting firm is your ability to win new high value clients, new high value work for new clien...
Vipul Sheth of Advance Track Outsourcing - Advisor to the Profession
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you Humanise the Numbers in your firm, so that the people in your firm and the clients you work with connect in a much deeper way and as a resu...
Glyn Davison, Phil Murray & Gareth Pinder - ACCA Strategy Series 2/5
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is podcast two of five of the ACCA strategy series.What does an accountancy firm do to make strategy really come to life in their firm?On this Hu...
Jo Edwards of JE Consulting - Marketing Series and Advisor to the Profession
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you brilliantly promote your firm, market your firm, so that you attract and win ideal clients?On this Humanise The Numbers podcast discussion ...
Carl Reader on niche marketing for Accountants - Specialist Series
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's not uncommon for a firm of accountants to consider the idea of focusing on and marketing to a niche sector, or to even focus on several nich...
Carl Reader of d&t Chartered Accountants - Advisory Series
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you really humanise the numbers in your firm? And by that, I mean, how do you deeply connect with your team and with your clients, so that you ...
Alison Blackler of 2Minds - Advisor to the Profession
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this fascinating discussion I'm talking with Alison Blackler of 2minds. Alison is a transformational mind coach, speaker and author - what t...
Michael Carthy of Carthy Accountants - Advisory Series
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to capture and demonstrate the value you're delivering to your clients?In this podcast discussion you'll hear from Michael...
Rob Walsh of Clear Vision Consultancy - Advisory Series
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What can you do to grow the commerciality of your people so that they drive the fees, they drive the profits and they drive the capital value of growt...
Sean Farnell of Burgis and Bullock - Advisory Series
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this Humanise The Numbers podcast interview with Sean Farnell from the six office firm Burgis and Bullock Chartered Accountants in the Midlands, ...
Glenn Martin of Avery Martin Accountants - Firms Humanising The Numbers
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our experience over the last couple of decades of working with Accountancy firms, we have an appreciation that every firm, at some point in their h...
Ron Baker - The Timesheet Tussle - Pricing Series and Advisor to the Profession
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To what extent have you, your colleagues, your firm been looking at the efficiency, the effectiveness, the productiveness of your accounts and tax tea...
Rob Boll of Evoke Management - Advisory Series
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Most firms of accountants are working on the transition from being entirely compliance-oriented firms of accountants, to firms that are doing both com...
Harvee Pene of Inspire - Culture and Purpose Series, Firms Humanising The Numbers
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you and your firm measure the impact you have on your business owners lives, your client's lives. And what difference does that impact hav...
Nikki & Nigel Adams from Advalorem - Culture and Purpose Series, Firms Humanising The Numbers
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nikki and Nigel are rightly proud of the high levels of enthusiasm and motivation their team demonstrate on a daily basis in their firm. They face cha...
Steve Timmis of Sempar Accountancy - Pricing Series, Firms Humanising The Numbers
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I'd be surprised if any accountant, any accountancy firm wouldn't want to work with high-growth, ambitious entrepreneurial business owners. ...
Jason Appel of BKL - Culture and Purpose Series
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you reorganise a team of 50 accounts, production people so that they become more focused, build knowledge and skill in a faster, better way and...
Neil Ballard & Rachel Barry of Lewis Ballard - Culture and Purpose Series
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you, as a firm end up with a culture where everyone within the firm holds everyone else to account for the standards of the work they do and th...
Emily Inman & Stephen Pell - ACCA Strategy Series 5/5
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do you have to do in your firm to ensure that what you invest in the strategic thinking, the strategic hard work pays off for you as a business o...
Phool Ashraf & Cheryl Sharp - ACCA Strategy Series 4/5
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Where's the value in your firm around pulling together absolute clarity around the behavioral standards, values, and beliefs, that you want to li...
Steph Rickaby & James Lizars - ACCA Strategy Series 3/5
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is podcast 3 of 5 of the ACCA Strategy SeriesWhere's the value in having a crystal clear sense of purpose for your accountancy firm?On this ...
Douglas Aitken of Remarkable Practice - ACCA Strategy Series 1/5
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is it worth the time, the effort, the energy in talking strategy in an accounting firm?Well, this was a question posed to me by ACCA.So, on this Human...
Stefan Barrett of Bee Motion - Firms Humanising The Numbers
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you define in your firm the concept of real time accounting? And is it really meaningful?In this Humanise The Numbers discussion with Stefan Ba...
Hugh Stedman of C&H Stedman - Firms Humanising The Numbers
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Where's the value in an accountant, having a strategy conversation with a client and then accountability conversations with clients?Well, in this...
Suda Ratnam of Raffingers - Culture and Purpose Series
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What must it be like for the leadership team of an accountancy firm to be not a hundred percent confident, but seriously confident about the future st...
Nathan Keeley of Carpenter Box - Technology Series, Firms Humanising The Numbers
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do you think it would be like to grow an accountancy firm from 30 people strong to 200 people strong 4 offices, 18 partners, and still retain the...
Zoe Lacey-Cooper of Accountex - Advisor to the Profession
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What one thing is the key to the future success of your accounting firm? Don't you think actually it makes sense to get an outsider's perspe...
Wayne Hockley of Anthony Russel - Workflow Series
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How exactly do you build a stronger connection with each and every one of your team so that each and every one of them are more productive, generate a...
Jo Drinkwater of Grant McKnight - Culture and Purpose Series
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What would it be like knowing with absolute confidence in absolute certainty where you're taking your firm? What the vision of your firm is?The g...
Luke Smith of Purpose [Part 2 of 2] - Advisory Series
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How come some accountants are really good at connecting with their business owner clients and other accountants are less good, less effective at build...
Luke Smith of Purpose [Part 1 of 2] - Pricing Series
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you explain to clients the value behind you charging them in excess of 2% of the turnover of their business? And how do you explain that a mil...
Jonathan Vowles & Coral Tolley-Fletcher of JVCA - Culture and Purpose Series
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this Humanise The Numbers podcast interview I’m talking to Coral Tolley-Fletcher and Jonathan Vowles of JVCA - based in Cranfield -and I have a...
Brendon Howlett of Wood and Disney Accountants - Specialist Firms Series
02 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How would one of your favorite business owner clients feel if they were approached by another accountancy firm that was genuinely wholeheartedly commi...
Kathryn Wellum-Kent of Monahans - Workflow Series
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered how to get more production out of your production team? What I mean by that is have you ever wondered how to better help your p...
Mark Of Telfords Chartered Accountants - Culture and Purpose Series
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast you'll hear how Mark and his team take seriously, deadly seriously, the five behavioral values they hold true in their firm.It&ap...
Will Farnell & Peter Jarman - Firms Humanising The Numbers
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Because both Will and Peter are leading high-growth digital accountancy practices it's enlightening to listen to what they have to say! In this d...