Accountants can change lives

- but not by producing a set of accounts

www.advancetrack.com

AdvanceTrack
Conference

9th May 2023
British Museum, London

Helping you, as an accountant, confidently choose between outsourcing and offshoring

And free up your time to do more of the work you enjoy.

Accountants always tell us they need more time. Actually, you don’t want more time. You want the space and freedom to decide how your time is best spent. When you outsource or offshore functions of your business, you’re able to take yourself out of the necessary work and find that space and time to focus on the important work. The work that will grow your business. The work you actually want to do more of.

What’s taking up your time?

Staff in the wrong seats:

When your staff are too busy focusing on the ‘grunt work’ of compliance, your firm – and your clients – are missing out on a life-changing service.

Too much work:

You’re growing too fast. A nice problem to have, but it’s still a problem. You’re not able to scale your business because you’re trapped doing work at the wrong level.

Sourcing the right team:

Staff retention is a growing problem. You can’t get the staff, or can’t get them at the right level. You finally hire the perfect staff member and they leave.

A different story of outsourcing

Many of our clients come to us with the same story. They’ve used outsourcing before but it didn’t work: it was supposed to save you money, save you time, and enable you to truly grow your firm. But it didn’t. We understand that – which is why our system is different to any other. We’re personally committed to a different story.

How fast is the accounting industry really adopting to tech?

When I was growing up, my parents had the best accountant, someone who brought them critical analysis, business experience and truth. He was there to navigate all the difficult paths for them. This is what an accountant is supposed to do and our job at AdvanceTrack is to make sure that you have the time to do more of that.

We look at your processes, workload, goals and team to help you decide if outsourcing or offshoring is best for you.

Scalable Delivery Model

(Outsourcing)

PROCESS: You have a standardised process

WORKLOAD: You have fluctuating demand across the year

GOAL: You understand deadlines and will work with our teams to get everything working smoothly

TEAM: You understand that a team supports you

Dedicated Offshore Delivery

(Offshoring)

PROCESS: You don’t have a standardised approach

WORKLOAD: You have steady workloads across the year

GOAL: You strive to ensure your service is bespoke to your clients

TEAM: You want to speak to the same team members every day

Our Scalable AdvanceTrack Delivery model will allow you to grow your firm

You need the Dedicated Offshoring service to serve your firm

Different models work for different firms, but both provide the same relief:

Real results from our clients

Successful accounting tech migration

Our client had been an early adopter of cloud accounting technology, but their existing tech wasn’t fit for future purpose.
They improved their project management capability by bringing in Xero and AdvanceTrack gave us advice on how to tidy up the migrating files.
We’re now better placed to provide our client with more up-to-date financials, and can provide better and more timely client advice.

Successful migration from Sage to Xero

Two large international companies needed help migrating from Sage to Xero, including 1000’s of transaction lines which also needed reconciling.
The migration was delivered cost-effectively and accurately.
They now have clean, quality data with meaningful reports with cloud tools that can be connected using Xero.

Consistent client contact and scaling growth

A firm wanted to have a consistent message of client contact
Outsourcing has enabled them to have more junior members of staff working with clients earlier in their career.
Their team now comprises of client managers, assistant accountants and trainees, all with AdvanceTrack supporting them as part of that team.

Work delivered on time and on-budget

A Major International Group was struggling to navigate through the iXBRL maze.
They wanted to deliver a long term solution to iXBRL compliance and decided to outsource the first year file preparation to us.
We completed the files for approximately 70 group companies, helping the group meet their deadlines.

High quality & attention to detail

Prior to using AdvanceTrack^®, this sole practitioner had use another outsourcing provider.
However, they would regularly receive work back and have to spend time unravelling what had been done.
They switched to us and have seen an attention to detail and superior tracking system.

Reducing the number of new staff required

After conducting a review of all the major outsourcers, we were selected by a top 50 firm to help provide additional capacity at certain times of the year.
To do this, we helped provide a more process driven approach to exercises such as accounts production.
This has helped them offer trainees and staff more interesting and challenging work as well as save the firm money on recruitment.

Net profit increase of £150,000

A 15 partner regional practice needed to free up staff time during tax deadline season.
We were selected to deliver 600 personal tax returns between May and January.
This led to an increase in net profit by £150,000 and improved service delivery.

More time to deliver advisory services

A two-office practice decided to outsource to reduce the workload for their staff.
Staff were quick to realise outsourcing would help them carry out more added value work than pure compliance.
The results have allowed the firm to reduce administrative burdens and carry out more exciting work with clients.

Increased time with clients

A 7-partner firm came to us needing support with accounts preparation to support their audit teams
We worked to segregate the work and free up staff time to work closer with clients.

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