Firm Management
6 Ways To Attract & Retain Talent Within Your Accounting Firm
Firms must create an environment where the team feels valued to retain outstanding employees. This means providing them with ...
Amy Vetter
CPA, CITP, CGMA
Amy Vetter is an accomplished c-suite executive and board member with deep experience in cloud technology and transformation, creating go-to- market (GTM) strategies to scale businesses nationally and internationally. Amy has held multiple roles in Fortune 500, startup, small company rapid growth, and is a serial entrepreneur. She is well-versed in overseeing marketing, sales, customer programs, and education. Amy is also an active member of the AICPA IMTA Executive Committee where she leads the Technology Innovations Taskforce and is an AICPA CITP Champion. Amy is a sought-after speaker, panelist, and authors articles for many national publications and online journals. Amy has inspired thousands using her experiential knowledge on the digital transformation journey, where she provides guidance on how to move to cloud technology, and also the change management necessary to be successful. As a cloud technology expert, Amy authored Integrative Advisory Services: Expanding Your Accounting Services Beyond the Cloud, published by Wiley, where she provides the skills needed to transform digitally to take advantage of cloud technology and create advisory services to offer business clients. She also published the book, Business, Balance, & Bliss: How the B3 Method Can Transform Your Career and Life. Amy is a veteran speaker whose TEDx Talk continues to motivate viewers to take a more human approach to business in this digital world.
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Firm Management
Making a Remote Workplace Culture Work
The first step is acknowledging that you can no longer forge culture in the same way as in an office-centric model.
Advisory
How to Create a Better Advisory Relationship
While using the newest technology and processing large amounts of information is a pillar in effective client advisory services, it isn't the only necessary component. The human qualities of the relationship, relational accounting, will always be needed.
Firm Management
6 Tips to Maintain Focus Throughout the Workday
We all know the feeling: some days, you have too much to do and too little time. You bounce from task to task, trying to complete what you can, but you find you didn't get nearly enough done by the end of the day. That could be because of a lack of focus.
Advisory
5 Time Management Tips to Stay Sane During Busy Season
Pairing constantly changing tax laws with the stress of an increased workload can negatively affect your concentration and effectiveness. In fact, studies show that it can take more than twenty minutes to get back on task after an interruption.
Advisory
Kick Off 2022 by Reflecting on Your Most Important Goals from 2021
Let the beginning of the year be a time of self-reflection, both personally and professionally, so that your new year can be a time for new journeys and endeavors. When you look back at your past year, you can see how your work paid off and how ...
Firm Management
Covid Taught Us the Importance of Slowing Down
If Covid has taught us anything, it’s maybe we don’t need to be so busy like before. Before the pandemic, there were always too many things to do, too many clients to see, and never enough time in the day. Finding work-life harmony seemed to be a ...
Firm Management
Self-Care for Busy Accountants
The key to burnout prevention is through self-care and better work-life balance. Find ways to make self-care a part of your routine to protect yourself in times of stress.
Benefits
The Great Resignation: How to Keep Employees Happy and Prevent Burnout
More than anything, the pandemic brings us face-to-face with our mortality, prompting many pandemic-related epiphanies about life, death, family, and work. It puts into focus how important it is to balance work and life in a post-COVID world.
Benefits
Tech and Policies for Collaborating in the Hybrid Age
With the Delta variant and the end of summer ensuring that we’re still a long way off from “back to normal,” whatever that even means at this point, most firms will be dealing with a hybrid work environment for at least the rest of the year.
Advisory
A Guide to Better Client Communication
In an accounting world obsessed with advisory services, it’s strange that we tend to overlook the foundational aspect of relationships: communication.
Firm Management
How to Create a Comfortable Return to the Office
Many firms are returning to in-person work, but it’s not so simple as flipping a switch and going back to normal. You have to be mindful of your customers and clients’ needs and desires to create the safest and most agreeable experience for all.