#LongLiveTheAccountant Brighton - Take Aways
Phil Hobden
UK Sales Lead - Silverfin | Serving up Technology To Accountants | People Leader | Speaker | Podcast Host | Columnist & Award Judge | Customer Success Awards Finalist | #DyslexicThinking
Was amazing to see so many Brighton based accountants and partners come along to our #LongLiveTheAccountant meet up this past week at Brighton’s Vine Club/
As well as an amazing panel including Rowan Van Tromp from PJCO, Emma Fox from Fresh Financials and Alexandra Bond Burnett from Bond Ambition/Blue Arrow Accounting, we enjoyed food from Purezza, Brighton’s original Vegan Pizza restaurant and Beers from local craft brewery Gun Brewery.
Here’s some takeaways form the event..
“The key advisors for SME’s have left the building if your turnover is under ￡5-10million turnover”
Olly Cummings, Capitalise
“We have a base layer of apps… then aside from that if our client has further needs we will look at other apps that will suit the industry they are”
Rowan Van Tromp, PJCO
“It comes down to customer relationship… clients expect the VAT and payroll services we offer but are pleased to learn that there are extra serves we can help them with.”
Emma Fox, Fresh Financials
“We help businesses build a tech stack. This helps them run their businesses better”
Rowan Van Tromp, PJCO
“We are taking the relationship part of accounting back to basics, to a far more personal basis… it’s a much more holistic approach.”
Alexandra Bond Burnett, Bond Ambition
“Because of the relationship we have developed with clients I get asked everything! So we have had to become experts in everything.”
Emma Fox, Fresh Financials
“...if you don't charge for every call its still the retention of the client that pays out in the long term”
Rowan Van Tromp, PJCO
“Every client is set up on Xero Receipt Bank, Chaser and Float. They need to do that or we can’t give them the best advice possible.”
Emma Fox, Fresh Financials
“It allows us to step out in front of our clients and have those relationships..” -
Alexandra Bond Burnett, Bond Ambition
"When I was travelling a lot it mean I could access everything through @Xero and @ReceiptBank , everything is so accessible and safer, it’s given opportunities to my team which brings a great work life balance"
Alexandra Bond Burnett, Bond Ambition
For more on this event as well as future events check out www.capitalise.com
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A bit of a buy to let specialist accountant & Quickbooks UK Firm of the Future winner - Creating a new generation of Small and micro-business owner specialist advisers through our ACCA graduate training programme.
5 年Phil, great event but from that photo my take away is that I didn't realise that my bald patch was quite as big as it is. I don't normally see it from that angle!