Practice Pulse

Pat Delbridge

In each episode, ACCA members chat about life in public practice and their tips on improving your practice. Guest episodes feature ACCA partners sharing their tips for growing practices.

  1. Beyond the trophy - why accountancy awards matter

    13/06/2025

    Beyond the trophy - why accountancy awards matter

    Winning an accountancy award isn’t just about the trophy—it’s about credibility, industry recognition, and growing your client base. But is it worth the time and the effort? PJCO Chartered Certified Accountants has been nominated for and won multiple awards. In this podcast, its Managing Partner Peter Jarman talks about the process that he and his team go through when deciding whether to enter an award. Winning awards has directly resulted in sizeable revenue for the practice from new clients, but the process of determining whether to enter an award can be just as important as entering. For more support on entering awards, have a look at our hub at https://bit.ly/enteringawards This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

    22 min
  2. Navigating your exit strategy

    29/05/2025

    Navigating your exit strategy

    This podcast has been created from the session that Alastair Barlow (founder and former CEO of flindr) and Bhimal Hira (partner at Prysm Financial) presented at the 2025 Festival of Accounting & Bookkeeping in Birmingham, UK about their experiences exiting their practices. In it, they talk through the essential components of exploring exit options, assessing your company’s financial health, and understanding the due diligence process. This podcast complements our hub - Shaping Your Practice Exit – which provides food for thought on how to transition from being a practice owner and considers some of the possible routes, as well as offering insights from both buyers and sellers of practices. For more information about exiting your practice, have a look at our hub at bit.ly/sype. This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

    33 min
  3. Bean Counter to Boss 10

    12/06/2024

    Bean Counter to Boss 10

    In the final episode of the series, Amy Hancock and James Goulsbra talk about their experiences at Accountex 2024 and their key takeaways - the advent of AI but how it can never replace accountants, and how you shouldn’t get sucked into any software without doing your research first. They also mop up all the areas they promised to re-visit in earlier episodes such as their hourly operational costs, re-visiting business plans, certain pieces of software, and planned recruitment – as well as new developments like re-branding. This podcast series complements our hub Creating Tomorrow’s Practice Today – a hub covering regulation, tips from other members and ACCA partners, and how you can build your community. There’s even a checklist that you can use to check your progress. You can check out our hub at https://bit.ly/startyourpracticejourney.

    31 min
  4. Bean Counter to Boss 9

    12/06/2024

    Bean Counter to Boss 9

    In the penultimate episode of the series, Amy Hancock and James Goulsbra talk about collaborating with staff, clients and other accountants. A support network of other accountants is important for referring work you don’t have capacity or expertise for, but also so that you can have assurance that every practice has similar pain points. Then there’s networking with other industries and with other accountants. This podcast series complements our hub Creating Tomorrow’s Practice Today – a hub covering regulation, tips from other members and ACCA partners, and how you can build your community. There’s even a checklist that you can use to check your progress. You can check out our hub at https://bit.ly/startyourpracticejourney. You’ll find information about building your practice community on the hub at https://bit.ly/networkingandcommunity

    25 min

  5. 22/05/2024

    Bean Counter to Boss 8

    Amy Hancock and James Goulsbra talk about what productivity means to them, how staff are key to your productivity, and the different KPIs you can use. This podcast series complements our hub Creating Tomorrow’s Practice Today – a hub covering regulation, tips from other members and ACCA partners, and how you can build your community. There’s even a checklist that you can use to check your progress. You can check out our https://bit.ly/startyourpracticejourney.

    27 min

  6. 22/05/2024

    Bean Counter to Boss 7

    In this episode, Amy Hancock and James Goulsbra talk about taking on staff – at what point it becomes necessary, whether to recruit an admin role or an accountant role first, how outsourcing can help, using HR consultants, and planning for future recruitment. Who’d have thought that Pilates classes are a great place to recruit…. This podcast series complements our hub Creating Tomorrow’s Practice Today – a hub covering regulation, tips from other members and ACCA partners, and how you can build your community. There’s even a checklist that you can use to check your progress. You can check out our hub.

    30 min

  7. 22/05/2024

    Bean Counter to Boss 6

    Amy & James look at the risk of pricing too low when you first start up, different pricing models, pricing strategy, proposal software, price increases, and the advent of value pricing. This podcast series complements our hub Creating Tomorrow’s Practice Today – a hub covering regulation, tips from other members and ACCA partners, and how you can build your community. There’s even a checklist that you can use to check your progress. You can check out our hub. You’ll find a great video by Carl Reader of d&t about pricing models and unbilled work on the hub, as well as videos by the team at Gravitate Accounting about fee quotations, and Calvin Cooper of CRC Accountancy about valuing what you’re delivering to clients.

    27 min

  8. 22/05/2024

    Bean Counter to Boss 5

    What’s the best way to get your new accountancy practice out there? Amy Hancock and James Goulsbra talk about marketing your practice using social media as well as more traditional routes to market their practices, the importance of SEO for your website, and how it isn’t a case of one size fits all. This podcast series complements our hub Creating Tomorrow’s Practice Today – a hub covering regulation, tips from other members and ACCA partners, and how you can build your community. There’s even a checklist that you can use to check your progress. You can check out our hub You’ll find our marketing podcast series with PracticeWeb in the hub alongside two videos by Ashley Leeds - the 15-Minute Guy - about how practice owners can make the most of their LinkedIn profiles to attract clients.

    26 min
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À propos

In each episode, ACCA members chat about life in public practice and their tips on improving your practice. Guest episodes feature ACCA partners sharing their tips for growing practices.

Informations

  • Création
    Pat Delbridge
  • Années d’activité
    2021 - 2025
  • Épisodes
    31
  • Classification
    Tous publics
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2024 Pat Delbridge
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