This week, Stuart is joined by Marilyn Davies, Director of Tandem Group, an accounting firm founded more than 100 years ago in the Taranaki region of rural New Zealand. Marilyn discusses the impact of COVID-19 on New Zealand businesses, the challenges of finding great staff, advice for the younger generation of accountants, and much more.
- The impact of COVID-19 in New Zealand, and affects on the supply chain (3:00)
- Different types of clients and specialities (7:00)
- The embracement of Xero (10:10)
- The state of distributed teams versus in-office teams in a post-COVID world (12:40)
- Battling Zoom meeting exhaustion (14:10)
- The industries that have suffered and those that have thrived during the pandemic (15:30)
- The secrets to Xero’s success (19:30)
- Marilyn’s experience using Karbon at Tandem (21:40)
- The challenges of finding great staff when you’re not in a big city (24:00)
- Succession planning (26:50)
- The tax return as a by-product of what accountants actually do (30:00)
- Advice for young up-and-coming accountants (31:00)
- Incredible client stories (32:10)
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