by Mick Devine | 11/12/2018 | Educational
Well, maybe we are crazy. But then again, maybe it’s not a bad thing to do. We all live in the world and should contribute in the best way we can. The philosopher Peter Singer suggests that, when choosing how to contribute, we should choose the actions that will have...
by Calxa Team | 04/12/2018 | Educational, Starting a Conversation Series
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we discussed Awakening Your Client’s Interest and then The Sticky Effect. Now it’s time to delve deeper into that stickiness and look at how you, as a bookkeeper or accountant, can make yourself truly indispensable to your...
by Mick Devine | 15/11/2018 | Educational, Starting a Conversation Series
Not all of your customers may be worth keeping but for most bookkeepers and accountants, it’s important that you can keep most of them for as long as possible. How do you do that in an environment where many of your competitors are competing aggressively on price?...
by Mick Devine | 08/10/2018 | Educational, Starting a Conversation Series
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have seen plenty of advice from the ‘thought leaders’ in the accounting industry that the future is in advisory services, not in compliance. That sounds good, exciting even but it’s also daunting for many accountants and...
by Alex Lewis | 05/10/2018 | Educational
I’m sure we all can agree that grant acquittals can be hard to do and are mostly very time-consuming. To add to the frustration, no two grant providers have the same reporting requirements, sometimes not even within the same Government department. So how can you...
by Matthew Rowan | 26/09/2018 | Educational
We always harp on about how important good governance is and how successful boards are the key to the sustainability of organisations. Our team here at Calxa is always on the lookout for better ways to do business. This includes new tools, improved systems and new...
by Alex Lewis | 17/08/2018 | Educational
We recently ran a not-for-profit webinar Automate Board Reporting. It focused on how to find time-savings each month when doing this repetitive task. Today we want to share the key points with a wider audience. Why do we Bother with Board Reports? Board reporting...
by Mick Devine | 15/07/2018 | Educational
Just like at the turn of the calendar year, this is the time when many in the accounting world turn, like Janus – ancient Roman god of Beginnings, Transitions and Endings, he is two-faced as he looks to the future and the past – to look both back at the...
