14. How are you?
From The Trenches
English - April 07, 2020 11:30 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBBusiness News News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode is a personal reflection on what the Accounting industry is going through at the moment. Accountants are handling a mountain of client queries and every day seems like an avalanche of emotional conversations with clients. It’s stretched many accountants and bookkeepers to the limits both physically and emotionally.
In this episode, Paul & David share what their last few weeks have been like, celebrate the tremendous efforts the industry has gone to look after each other and what we are focusing on.
We are all in this together and by looking after each other we’ll carry our clients through this.
Paul Meissner
Hell, hardest in career
The unknown, misinformation
Clients assuming they’ll all get a giant novelty cheque
Legislation by press release (still don’t know a lot about Jobkeeper)
Support of other accountants has been wonderful.
David Boyar
Very hard to turn off and find a balance between reading new info (info overload) talking to peers, talking to friends, planning family response, managing the volunteer boards I chair
Originally lost weight but turns out it’s because I wasn't eating - hard to find health balance
New type of tired, I’m on the phone for 6-7 hours a day
Found the “were in this together” motherhood statements a bit anxiety inducing. It’s easy to put out a tweet, hard to call someone and ask how they are
What are/can we focus on
Paul Meissner
Client communication (emails)
Working the phones
Weekend switch off. Last friday-Sunday was interesting
David Boyar
Ordinary rhythm needs to return because our regular tasks still need to get done.
BAS lodgments before 28 April 2020
Applications for Loan Funding
Bank Assistance
FBT
Tax Planning for 2020
Cash Flow and Strategy Planning for when business starts up again.
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