Smithink - helping accountants turn their practices into great businesses

There is a countless number of business advisory solutions in the market today. All of them are dynamic often cloud-based applications. Understanding what they can do and select the most appropriate solution for your practice is often a challenge. This session will focus on the mainstream offerings and help you understand which solution suits each stage of the business advisory cycle and the processes and people in your firm. PRESENTED BY: Mark Holton, Smithink

Accountants are a target for the hackers with the treasure trove of information to enable identity theft and all sorts of frauds. Every firm needs to ensure that they are minimising the risks and have a disaster plan ready to execute should the worst happen. This session will highlight some key issues to consider. ​PRESENTED BY: David Smith, Smithink

Mark and David will outline how firms are reinventing their processes to improve client service, build advisory services and improve efficiency and profitability. PRESENTED BY: Mark Holton & David Smith, Smithink

This session will concentrate on the key mistakes made by accounting firms when undertaking business advisory work. Material covered will include; managing commitment and capacity issues, developing a proven implementation system for advisory work, selecting the right staff, appointing a business advisory champion and resourcing them, overcoming confidence and the comfort zone and finally finding the right clients to work with. Presented by Mark Holton