Podcast Library: Accounting Industry Insights with Mark Holton

In Mark’s latest podcast episode Brianna Sheppard, Senior Accountant at ALA Partners shares her experience and perspective of being a female in the world of accounting and business. Brianna gave a fantastic speech at our 2022 Young Guns Workshop on this very topic and he wanted her to share more on the podcast. We talk about Brianna’s journey into leadership, balancing her personal life and career, and how that speech came about.

This month Mark sat down with one of the young guns who attended the Smithink Young Guns Workshop in 2022, Ashreen Lochan from Generate Accounting in New Zealand. Ashreen is an Accounting graduate and a member of CPA Australia as well as on the Women in Business Committee for CPA in NZ. She is also a mentor for the University of Auckland’s Business Women’s Mentoring Programme. We talked about how she is helping out businesses with the current economic challenges as well as the current trends and signs of business performance in New Zealand and many other things.

This month I sat down with Andrew Paton-Smith, CEO and Founder of Jazoodle, to find out more about this passion for small businesses, demystifying business numbers, and where he sees how numbers will help the businesses of Australia in the future.

I recently sat down with Chris Palmer, Director of Maus Software, and we chatted about all things business advisory. Find out what his thoughts are on business advisory being a critical component for firms, the key steps to implementing business advisory services, and much more.

This month I spoke to Amanda Gascoigne from The Balanced Firm and we discussed getting the right balance between business advisory and compliance, the roadblocks stopping firms embrace business advisory, what’s working well and a whole lot more!

For this month’s podcast episode I caught up with Florence Ioannou of LDB Group. We discussed her journey to be come LDB Group’s first female associate, how she became interested in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency and how she sees clients engaging in this space.

In my latest podcast, I speak with Aaron Jupp of Aspira Business and Financial Services and chat about taking a holistic approach to helping clients, and staff challenges including offshoring, as well as tips on how to run a smarter and more profitable practice.

I sat down with John Beasley, Associate Partner of LDB Group, and we discussed ways to attract talent as well as ways to get new clients, work/life balance, technology and much more.

This month I sat down with Matthew Feehan Accounting Director of Salt Financial Group, to discuss Matthew’s personal experience with setting up advisory services in his firm including the reasons why they decided to go down the advisory path, the challenges, benefits and learnings for the team and clients.

I highlighted the opportunities of business advisory in part one. Now I talk you through the next few steps to help you successfully implement business advisory into your firm: Create; Analyse; Implement; Service; Generate. With the right and committed implementation adding business advisory into your firm creates more opportunities.