Business Fitness - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Accounting Profession

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly^® of the Accounting Profession
Benchmark Report

Australian Edition for 30 June 2008 Results

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly® of the Accounting Profession report provides a set of unbiased benchmarking criteria from which you can access the performance and future development possibilities of your firm. In addition to the quantitative financial data, the Good Bad Ugly® report also addresses qualitative issues such as challenges facing firms', practice management trends and meaningful insights.

Ask yourself - “How much better could I manage and grow my practice if I knew...”

How much revenue should I be achieving?
What the return on partner effort should be?
The link between revenue size and partner earnings?
What the high performing firms do differently and
...how they increase their profits?
What were the high performing firms’
- “Best Business Decisions” and
- their “Most Expensive Learning Experiences”?
How many staff I should really be employing?
How much I should be paying them?
What is an acceptable level of productivity?
The current accounting industry trends and challenges?
What the benchmarking comparative data was over three years?
and much more…

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly® of the Accounting Profession benchmark study is the largest of its kind in Australia with survey responses for the financial year ended 30th June 2008 from 326 city, suburban and regional firms, ranging from small sole practitioner firms to large second tier multi-partner firms.

This report has also become accepted as the most comprehensive and reliable guide on current practice management methods and trends within the accounting industry. When reviewing and analysing trends in the data we take into account over 2000 sets of results from the six years that businessfitness™ has been conducting this annual survey.

Specially designed data integrity and verification checking software ensures that the results published are based on consistent and high-quality data. Firms are contacted to verify their data where any data appeares unusual.

This edition includes comprehensive white papers with new and meaningful insights from leading industry commentators with topics covering:

How to Use Benchmarking as a Practice Management Tool – by Ric Payne, CEO of Principa.

What type of Practice do you have? – by Dr Greg Timbrell, Director of Professional Services at the Queensland University of Technology’s Faculty of IT.

Produced especially for accountants, based on information from accounting firms and accounting firm specialists, businessfitness™ is continually improving the value of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly® of the Accounting Profession report by providing meaningful information, expert advice and new insights to help you continually grow your business.

Priced at $159.50 for your first copy with additional copies at $71.50 each when purchased on the same order. Prices exclude postage.

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If you have any questions regarding The Good, the Bad & the Ugly® of the Accounting Profession Report or about how to order your copy, please do not hesitate to contact businessfitness™ on 1800 99 11 00 or via email to info@businessfitness.net.