The accounting industry is changing rapidly. Cloud software, Robotic accounting, Artificial Intelligence and other developments are increasingly doing the work accountants and bookkeepers have been doing. If you, as a financial professional, want to stay relevant, you need to deliver value that goes beyond compliancy work. You need to become a profit advisor. In The Profit Advisor, bestselling author, entrepreneur and keynote speaker Femke Hogema, gives you concrete and practical methods and skills to become a profit advisor. She shows you how you can help your clients build a financially healthy and profitable company. She also learns you how you can transition from hourly billing to a pricing system where your clients pay you for the value you offer. • A wake-up call for financial professionals • A very practical and accessible book for bookkeepers, accountants, CPA’s and other financial experts who know they need to change and want to know how • Written by the author of three bestselling books Dig deep into this book. It will be time well spent. This book contains the most important information you can have. It is not stuck in theory and noble ideas… instead it walks you through the exact steps you need to be successful. When you are finished reading the book, I think you will be as grateful to know Femke as I am. She is that good. This book is that good. Enjoy. - Mike Michalowicz, author of Profit First.
If you want to start a small accounting firm and use the Profit First model to help your clients expand your business, this is a 5-star excellent guidebook for that.
If you wanted to read a more holistic view of what is happening the the accounting/bookkeeping profession and what options there might be for the future, this is not it. It is very specifically focused and if being a Profit Advisor is not your focus, there is not much to get out of this book.