Webinars
We provide nationally renowned webinars for accountants and bookkeepers on a wide range of topics designed to empower you to better support your small business clients. Some of the most recent webinars are shown below.
Past Webinars
Some of our past webinars are listed below. Handouts for our most recent webinars are available for a limited time. Recordings of ALL past webinars, along with their handouts, are available to Woodard members.
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This webinar TOOK PLACE IN June 2024
Tech-Enabled Service Strategies for Accountants
Join us for an impactful webinar on harnessing technology to elevate your accounting practice. Discover how integrating tech-enabled services can streamline your firm's offerings and deliver substantial value to your clients. Through compelling case studies, learn how firms have successfully introduced highly profitable, value-added services by partnering with leading technology providers. This webinar will offer practical strategies for leveraging technology to simplify complex processes and enhance your business.
This webinar took place in May 2024
Wrangling Client Credit Card Changes
Many small business owners rely on multiple credit cards for business expenses, driven by creative cash flow management and the benefits of earning credit card points for future travel. The real question is not if they will use multiple cards, but how many. Managing multiple credit cards can create challenges for bookkeepers, such as handling various bank feeds and potential blind spots in business expenditures. Join our engaging one-hour webinar to learn about the risks of inconsistent credit card use, strategies for increasing spend control, and a powerful technology platform that consolidates multiple cards into a single bank feed.
This Webinar took place in May 2024
Adding Value to Your Practice
In today’s high-tech AI world, there is still a great need for business services, including bookkeeping, accounting, payroll, technology consulting, forecasting, and analytic work. This session will discuss the market and share perspectives from a seasoned Client Advisory Services (CAS) veteran. Val Steed, CPA, MA, CITP, has worked in the accounting technology industry for over thirty years. He ran his own firm and CAS practice for over twelve years and has spent numerous hours consulting with accounting technology companies on how to build a partner program and market to accountants. This session is a guaranteed good time and has valuable information.
This webinar took place in April 2024
Conquering the Staffing Crisis
In 2024, the accounting industry faces a severe staffing crisis due to the aftermath of the pandemic, the Great Resignation, a decline in accountancy education interest, and increased competition from large firms and scaled bookkeeping competitors. To address these challenges, a dynamic live-only online training session is being offered to help firms discover effective recruitment tactics, explore virtualization models to widen the talent pool, cultivate a positive workplace culture, and gain actionable strategies to overcome staffing issues and succeed in the evolving market. Join this free one-hour event to empower your firm and retain top talent.
Wednesday, April 24
UNLOCKING CAS SUCCESS
Dive into strategic ways to maximize the potential of Accounts Payable (AP) processes, establishing them as a vital entry point for increasing overall organizational efficiency and financial management for a CAS practice and its clients. Optimize accounts payable procedures, strengthen vendor connections, reduce payment processing expenses, and mitigate financial risks.
This webinar is perfect for CAS practice business lines seeking to enhance their departmental performance when managing procure-to-pay processes (P2P), better known as Accounts Payable processing. Gain invaluable strategies and tactics to harness the full potential of Accounts Payable within the broader context with Accounts Payable Solutions.
This Webinar Took Place in January 2024
Connecting the Dots: Tech and Tips for Seamless Communication
.Inefficient communication within a firm can turn busy season into a nightmare, leading to data security risks and fragmented team efforts. This webinar directly addresses these challenges, offering practical solutions to streamline communication, safeguard sensitive information, and break down information silos. Discover how to transform these common pain points into opportunities for enhanced efficiency and collaboration in your accounting practice, aligning with the Woodard ethos of innovative, practical problem-solving. Join us to make your next busy season more manageable and productive.
This Webinar Took Place in December 2023
Navigating Client Scope: From Engagement Letters to Onboarding
This webinar zeroes in on the critical role of defining and managing scope in client relationships within accounting. It highlights the importance of crafting precise engagement letters that delineate the scope of services, pricing, and responsibilities, forming the bedrock of a successful professional relationship. The session will explore effective client onboarding strategies that align with the established scope, ensuring a transparent and efficient initiation of services. The primary objective of this webinar is to equip accountants with the skills to manage client expectations accurately from the outset.
This Webinar Took Place in November 2023
Survive and Thrive: Prepping for Busy Season
Prepare for a seamless 2024 busy season with a comprehensive and actionable checklist. This webinar is designed to give you the tools to streamline your staffing, optimize your service delivery, and effortlessly navigate key compliance updates. You'll leave armed with a checklist that's ready to implement, driving both revenue and client satisfaction.
this webinar took place in September 2023
Less is More: Fewer Clients...More Profit...Bliss!
Register today to join Joe Woodard as he introduces a "Less is More" approach focused on measuring success by client outcomes, sustainable workloads, and increased profits. During this impactful session, you'll learn how to identify and eliminate non-ideal clients, boost profits with existing clients, and attract less price-sensitive businesses. If you're feeling overwhelmed by tax and accounting deadlines, there's a solution to reduce stress and improve your practice. Don't miss this opportunity for a more sustainable and profitable accounting journey.
This webinar took place in August
The Future in Your Hands:
The Future in Your Hands:
ChatGPT and AI in Accounting
Join Heather Satterley and Michelle L. Long in a groundbreaking 60-minute webinar hosted by Woodard as they delve into the transformative synergy of AI and ChatGPT within the accounting domain.
This session offers practical insights, industry expertise, and hands-on demonstrations to empower participants with actionable strategies and innovative ideas, catering to both AI newcomers and those seeking to deepen their knowledge. Michelle's QuickBooks proficiency and commitment to accountants' growth provide a unique perspective on technology implementation, while Heather's innovation prowess brings a fresh approach to optimization.
Webinar Series
The Liberated Practice Series
At this point in the 21st century, the case is closed on the cloud. Practically everyone in every developed country in the world has accepted the prevailing and pervasive presence of the cloud in their lives and businesses.
Woodard and Intuit QuickBooks® have partnered to offer accountants and bookkeepers a provocative, challenging, 8-part series of online training events during which various industry experts will reassess the definition of “cloud accountancy.”
Discover what it looks like to be 100% cloud-powered with a focus not just on the accounting platform you use, but the whole of your operations including client data handling, production automation, workforce virtualization, the mobilization of your client interactions…and more!
THIS WEBINAR TOOK PLACE IN June 2023
Streamline Your Workflow
As an accounting professional, documenting your processes is essential for maintaining accuracy and compliance. However, it can be a time-consuming and tedious task, especially when done manually. In this webinar, we will show you how to leverage technology to easily document your processes, saving you time and increasing efficiency. You'll learn how to create a process documentation framework, identify key processes to document, and utilize technology tools to streamline the process.
THIS WEBINAR TOOK PLACE IN APRIL 2023
Let's Not Do That Again!
As accountants and professional bookkeepers emerge from the “busy season,” Joe Woodard is leading a discussion on how to look within to reconcile workloads and determine what is driving the pivot from seasonal workload increases (sane) to 12-hour workdays, weekend work, frustrated clients, and burned-out employees (insane).
This webinar took place in March 2023
Is QuickBooks Desktop Dead?
In 2020, Woodard's webinar "Is QuickBooks Desktop Dead?" sparked controversy and attracted a large audience. The answer at the time was "No," as QBD could still be viable when hosted in the cloud and used with cloud-based apps. Three years later, the question is being revisited in a new webinar. The webinar will offer an objective evaluation of Intuit's objectives for QuickBooks Desktop and assess its viability in a cloud-centric world. It will also explore the advantages and disadvantages of clients staying with QuickBooks Desktop and offer strategies for overcoming obstacles to transitioning to QB Online/Xero.
THIS WEBINAR TOOK PLACE NOVEMBER 2022
Ordering Your Onboarding: Strategies for Folding New Clients Into Your Practice
Most accounting and bookkeeping practices are heavily focused on the accuracy and timeliness of their services for existing clients. Though this is understandable – and noble – surprisingly, few also provide the same level of attention to the client onboarding processes.
this webinar took place November 2022
Tax Prep Plus: A New, Revolutionary Model For The Tax Practitioner
Over the past year we have perfected a model we call "Tax Prep Plus," a slate of value-infused services that clients will embrace, that are manageable for you to deliver, and that are in keeping with your existing brand as a tax practitioner.
THIS WEBINAR TOOK PLACE September 2022
The Document Deadlock
Source documents, and other forms of business information, are the life blood of accountancy – essential to services like tax preparation, attestation, bookkeeping, and advisory. In today’s modern, cloud-first business environment, this problem should technically be solved (yes…intended double entendre). However, if you are like most accounting professionals, the “document deadlock” is creating extreme friction in your practice, straining client relationships, cutting into profits, and frustrating everyone in your practice
The webinar took place October 2022
End The Insanity: Engineering A Workable Year-End and Tax Time
For most accountants and bookkeepers, year-end – and the subsequent tax season – is the most stressful time of the year. Stress is unavoidable. However, when your year's end and tax season becomes insane, you must look within to determine what is driving the pivot from seasonal workload increases (sane) to 12-hour workdays, weekend work, and burnout (insane)
This webinar took place July 2022
Why Your Clients Don't Value Your Services
Accountants and bookkeepers often have under-valued, reactionary, and strained relationships with their clients. This positioning of client relationships reduces your perceived value proposition to one of commodity (even utility), where the client views you as nothing more than a compliance officer and record keeper.
The answer? Present yourself as the curator and interpreter of valuable business information, the generator of increased financial visibility, and the protector of the client’s business. Simply put…shift the client’s thinking about you and your role from expenditure to asset.
This webinar took place June 2022
I Can't See
Accountants and bookkeepers are faced with client management and production challenges that leave them feeling as though they are traveling through a maze while blindfolded. Most of these problems stem from failed client interactions, inaccessibility to management reporting, and insufficient document management practices. But, whatever the cause, the result is the same. Most accountants and bookkeepers are challenged and frustrated with the performance of accounting and bookkeeping services.
This webinar took place may 2022
Zero Entry Bookkeeping
Over the past decade, the bookkeeping profession has enjoyed a deluge of exciting new technologies, most of which are designed to reduce, or even eliminate, the manual bookkeeping process. However, this unprecedented opportunity to modernize bookkeeping comes with challenges:
- Some solutions over promise and under deliver
- Solutions that work as promised often don’t integrate well with certain accounting platforms
- Some solutions are difficult to adopt and cost-prohibitive to deploy and…
- Some solutions don’t scale well for your larger clients
This webinar took place April 2022
The Huge Client
All bookkeepers and accountants have THOSE clients – the few mid-market businesses (or just one) that emerged from within the client base or came to you as an outlier – a client that is different, larger, and more complex than the normal book of business. The question is not do you have at least one of these “huge clients.” Most do. The question is not if you can support “huge clients.” You already are!
This webinar took place January 2022
Securing Client Data
To solve the problem, many accounting professionals are now storing their client’s passwords in browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge…or worse…in Word/Google Documents, workflow tools, or CRM solutions!
Bad actors are increasingly effective at obtaining password information, including scraping email exchanges, text messages, and even VOIP phone conversations. Also, malware on your local computer can locate unencrypted password information and transmit this information to bad actors.