067: Accounting Essentials for Your Law Firm with Amanda Aguillard

Amanda is the founder of Aguillard Accounting, a small business accounting firm based in New Orleans with clients across the country. Her focus is solo and small law firms and real estate brokerages.

She is also the co-founder of Elefant, a training company for accountants and bookkeepers. Amanda’s #1 passion is helping small business owners build the practices of their dreams using technology.

Resources discussed in this episode

• Xero; - cloud-based accounting software for small businesses (which Ernie and Amanda both use and recommend)
  • MinuteDoc; - Xero-based time and billing integration
• Amanda’s Clio Conference Talk (YouTube recording) entitled “Accounting Doesn’t Have to Be a Bad Word. She talked about making sense of accounting practices and how to avoid common law firm accounting pitfalls.
• Quickbooks Online - the cloud-based competitor to Xero.
• Amanda’s Twitter Feed - where she posts important announcements for small business owners looking for guidance with accounting issues.
• Small Firm Bootcamp 2020 - the 2-day conference for solo and small firm attorneys coming up in May of 2020 in New Orleans. Special “early bird” pricing is now in effect.

General Resources

• Learn to use technology to reduce friction & gain freedom with this resource: https://www.the8020lawyer.com/
• Focus on these essential tech tools for maximum traction in your practice.
• Take this short law practice assessment to identify your main strengths & weaknesses.

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