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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 IN DECEMBER 2022
It Hurts: 10 Key Pain Points for the Professional Bookkeeper
Join Joe Woodard to identify and address the 10 most common pain points experienced by professional bookkeepers. By addressing these 10 key pain points, you will have a more profitable practice, you will enhance client experience, and you will reduce stress points for yourself and your team.
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
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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 August 2022
Battling the Staffing Crisis
Accountants and bookkeepers are emerging out of the fog of COVID into yet another major challenge…a game-changing, unprecedented, and systemic worker shortage.
“The Great Resignation,” is just one cause, and likely not the most significant or pervasive. Other impacts include: 1) A decline in the study of accountancy among college students, 2) Heavy recruitment by enterprise-level firms, 3) An increase in gig worker opportunities, 4) A looming retirement bubble.
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.
