How to Price Business Advisory Services for 10:1 ROI

A popular question I get from accountants looking to make the transition is around pricing advisory services vs compliance work since it’s vastly different in nature. It’s unfamiliar territory: compliance work is typically more task-oriented and advisory tends to be a bit more subjective (although it shouldn’t be, but I’ll save that for another post). As you’ve heard time and again, the answer is value-based pricing. It’s about pricing for perceived value of your services rather than marking up the cost to deliver them.

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The Best KPIs to Manage Your Rental Real Estate Portfolio

Traditional real estate portfolio management reports provided by accounting firms include a Profit & Loss Statement (P/L), a Balance Sheet (B/S), and Statement of Cash Flow.

The Profit & Loss shows the income and expenses for any given period, the Balance Sheet shows a company’s assets and liabilities for at any point in time, and the Statement of Cash Flow shows how the cash was utilized for a given period.

The flaw of traditional accounting reports like these, and P/Ls alone, is that they report the facts for a given period but fail to provide any actionable information. What factors contributed to those outcomes?

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How to Validate Your Business Concept with Data

One of the best exercises you can go through as you initially validate an idea is to go out in public and interview people who would be your potential customers. There’s no other way to get feedback on your concept initially, and one thing that’s way more uncomfortable than talking to strangers about an idea is spending 100’s of hours building that idea, to only find out no one wants it.

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The Malartu Data Maturity Model

To get to the point of being truly data driven, your firm needs to know where you’ve been and where you currently stand in your path to data maturity. It’s important to follow this model because trust is built along this path - it is impossible to make important strategic decisions based on data without trust that your data and systems are reliable.

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How Data Analytics Will Transform Private Equity

Investors working with private companies experience the same free and ubiquitous access to data that much of the tech industry realized in the late 2000’s but have yet to capitalize on the opportunity. If you take a random sample of fund managers and ask them how they leverage data from due-diligence, portfolio monitoring, or their own fund’s operation, the answer generally encompasses a mix of analysts, cumbersome excel files, and CRMs. The data is available but locked in an antiquated system. Herein lies the opportunity.

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FinanceSean Steigerwald
Nonprofit Management: Setting Key Metrics

Managers at nonprofits have a unique set of challenges related to furthering their business while also furthering their mission. Progress cannot always be measured by simple metrics like revenue-growth and grants-made because you’re not really in the business of making money and giving money away: you’re in business to better the world...

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Benchmarking Software Will Make You A Better Manager

The fact is, data transfer and data visualization are only two parts of the business intelligence equation. The third part, and the largest missing piece, is what you do with this information - how you gain actionable insights. The first step to understanding the difference between where you are and where you need to be is finding the benchmark.

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Understanding Campaign Tagging and UTM Codes in Google Analytics

When a visitor comes to a site that has the Google Analytics tracking code installed, Google Analytics captures data via cookies like what kind of traffic it is, where the visitor came from, their browser, screen resolution, country, metro, etc. Campaign tagging allows you to overwrite this data with your own custom variables to get better insight into who this visitor is and why they’re coming to your site.

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