The Accountants Growth Academy
Building a great firm - one you can be really proud of - means caring for your team and your clients, helping both thrive.
We call it - 'Humanising The Numbers'
At Remarkable Practice we challenge ambitious accountants like you to better connect with your team, better connect with your clients, and better connect to your firm's purpose and future vision. When you do, you’ll transform your growth, transform your profitability and transform your capital value too, just like these two firms have...
Large multi-office, multi-£million firm on track to achieve their 5-year vision of 50% organic fee growth in less than 4 years with a significant profit per partner improvement
Small 2-owner start up grows £120,000 of initial fees to £600,000 (500% growth) in 4 years with a team of only 6 people
Both of these firms have taken the ‘humanise the numbers’ approach seriously to improve the performance of their teams and their clients and build a better firm.
Build a GREAT firm...
You’re not alone. Building a great firm is not always easy and can feel both lonely and difficult at times. Having worked exclusively with accounting firms like yours for over 20 years these are some of the challenges, issues and pains we hear:
- Why is it so difficult to recruit and keep great team members?
- How is it that our workflow seems to drive our firm, rather than us drive the workflow?
- Why can't we get clients to be as responsive as we'd like?
- Why don't my team seem to care as much as I do?
- How do I plan for the future when I'm so busy doing the actual work?
With these, and many other burning questions in your head, it can be tough to see a way through to a better firm and a better future.
Build a GREAT firm...
...but to move from chaos to control, from anxiety to confidence and from unpredictability to certainty, you might like to consider the Accountants Growth Academy
The Accountants Growth Academy is a space set up to help you build the firm you want. Build a firm with a sense of control, a deep sense of pride and enthusiasm across your team and clients too. A firm that achieves the results you’d really like to achieve.
You may not yet know exactly what you'd like, or how to get there, but by working together you’ll quickly see progress. Of course, we’ll look for quick wins together. We’ll also work on building strategic health for your firm so that you get clear on what you want from your firm and take the steps needed to achieve your personal and business goals.
Searching for sustainable success...
Valuable and lasting results requires new skills. Together we’ll focus on developing the skills that help you drive change, resolve the pains you are feeling in your firm, and build the firm of the future you really want. And make the firm less reliant on you too so that you get the freedom you had in mind when taking a leadership role in your firm.
What value do the accountability visits bring to the Accountants Growth Academy program for Pinfields?
I think the biggest benefit of the accountability visits and meetings is being made accountable for your actions, so when you’re a boss, a partner, who are you accountable to? I’ve used coaches in the past but these visits from Douglas are more specific, not necessarily as a coach, but what I find is we’ve actually got more input and support from the Academy team. We’re getting now to see Doug or Paul once every six weeks, so it’s making us aware, we’ve got to make sure that’s done, make sure that’s done, make sure that’s done, and it’s not too much and it’s not too little, so for us it’s perfect. The problem we’ve got being a legacy firm, I’m third generation, that’s been a huge curved ball for us, especially re-educating clients who have always been used to things a different way so it’s been good for that.
Nick Pinfield
What value do the accountability visits add to the whole Accountants Growth Academy process?
I think the accountability visit actually has pushed it to another level so I think that’s really needed and really a key part of the whole programme.
Ian Gillard
What value do the accountability visits add to the whole Accountants Growth Academy process?
Having someone come to the practice and with the view to keep it short and sweet and just focus on accountability that really does make a difference actually because you do feel accountable, and it gives you a focus in both your actions and time. Yeah, that really makes a difference.
Conor McDonnell
- Form a connection with your purpose
- Fit in with the values you hold dear
- See the future vision and their place in it
Because change isn’t easy it requires accountability support.
Accountability, both individually and to the Accountants Growth Academy group, is a key component of our working together. The potential of the group comes into its own when you work alongside like-minded, ambitious accountant leaders who are on a similar journey and who have experienced similar feelings and challenges.
Help is available at every stage, not by doing it for you, but after careful analysis of the desired outcome, by supporting and ensuring you follow through on the actions to which you commit. Having peers going through the same challenges brings massive support that you're not alone, as well as providing a melting pot full of ideas, best practice and inspiration.
Through the Accountants Growth Academy experience, you’ll see that remarkable results are achieved by encouraging your people to be remarkable, people who not only want to deliver the tangible products you provide, but who want to go beyond that and genuinely help others, your clients and their colleagues.
Meet the team
Doug
Course leader
Douglas always has one eye on the future of the firms we work with. The other eye is on helping ambitious accountants humanise the numbers with more than just knowledge and insight.
"What's really needed is the advancement of new skills and new habits to transform the results of a firm. Knowledge is not enough. But change can feel like a tough old grind, and that's why accountability is vital."
As well as contributing to the Growth Academy workshops for the last 5 years, Douglas also manages the accountability support sessions with individual firms. He's serious about your firm's success, so why not book a call to find out more?
Paul
Course leader
Only you can decide on the vision and goals you have for your firm. But do you choose to tackle the changes alone or to join a community of like-minded accountancy professionals and support each other?
"Every firm is serious about taking the action needed to achieve their vision and goals. The accountability support we provide prompts (even forces) firms to follow through on the decisions they make at the Growth Academy workshops. This way we can be certain that you'll get an ROI you can be proud of."
For 20+ years Paul has been challenging ambitious accountants to connect better and stronger with their team and clients.
Paul
Course leader
Only you can decide on the vision and goals you have for your firm. But do you choose to tackle the changes alone or to join a community of like-minded accountancy professionals and support each other?
"Every firm is serious about taking the action needed to achieve their vision and goals. The accountability support we provide prompts (even forces) firms to follow through on the decisions they make at the Growth Academy workshops. This way we can be certain that you'll get an ROI you can be proud of."
For 20+ years Paul has been challenging ambitious accountants to connect better and stronger with their team and clients.