I’m a bean counter, a Chartered Accountant and Director at Nicholsons in Lincolnshire. I help people achieve their life goals, building great businesses along the way.
I work in the Business Advisory Services team at Nicholsons and am a senior coach with Nicholsons Business Laboratory.
I like to challenge the clichéd view of your every day accountant & occasional innovative entrepreneur.
As a junior bean counter I helped business owners streamline the way they recorded their financial transactions, helping them save time & giving them access to more information. Today there are a huge number of opportunities to use technology platforms to do the same. But many accountants don’t, instead focussing on what they know best, the “bean counting”.
Today I like to persuade people to cast the boring number crunching stereotype aside and promote today’s accountants as commercially aware, fact and figures championing folk offering new perspectives to today’s business leaders.
clichéd view of your every day accountant
Seen as risk averse, number crunching hermits; grey, boring and introverted are three commonly used adjectives used to describe accountants. But…
Often at the sharp end of business decisions accountants influence the commercial agenda by offering a clear analysis of the past, the present and the future.
My C.V. is available on Linked In.
I’m interested in:-
Cycling, Badminton, Football (GTFC), Beach days Business planning, Films, Technology, History & Photography.
I’m inspired by:-
Wooten Bassett, Spitfire, McDonald’s, Team Sky , Apple. Grimsby Town, Star Wars, Innocent Drinks, Berlin Wall, Berlin 1989.
Woods at Wray Castle looking out to Lake Windermere (Cumbria)
Did I say I liked photography? All of the images you see on the blog are my own taken mostly out and about Lincolnshire, The Lake District and North Yorkshire.
Why blog?
Accountants can’t rest on their laurels because the world is changing. Technology is disrupting “compliance” work (accounts and tax work) to the extent that in within 5 years it could be largely automated. BUT accountants have other skills that business owners really want, they are just hidden!
So there are three guiding principles behind this blog.
#1 To provide easy to digest and relevant tax and financial information that is thought provoking and insightful.
#2 To create debate through content centred around “Frictionless Finance” for SMEs.
#3 To provide a focus around the importance of wellbeing, mental and physical health for SME owner managers.