Two Drunk Accountants

Did you know small business owners experience lower wellbeing ratings than the general population? We chat to Will Buckley the Country Manager Australia for Xero about the recent report on the Global State of Small Business Owner Wellbeing. 

This week we chat about improving your leadership skills with Brendan Rogers! Brendan is a leadership coach, consultant and podcast host from the Culture of Leadership! Special thanks to Marc from Central Coast Digital Media for recording this interview for us! 

This week we are joined by our newly named Stats Man of the podcast John Shepherd. John is the General Manager of the National Data Acquisition Division at the Australian Bureau of Statistics and we chat about what is happening at the ABS and also what information you can get from the ABS to help your business! 

This week we tackle the tricky issue of frequent flyer programs and allowing your employees (including yourself!) to use the points for personal travel! We also why Tim the Grinch likes easter more than Christmas.

While at Accountex 2023 we were able to speak to lots of great software providers about what they were up to! Many have never been on the podcast before so it was great to chat to some new faces! We spoke to MYOB, Quickbooks, Pursuited, Content Snare, Aider, Next Minute, Cloud Staff, Business Fitness and others! This episode is all about the software and services at the conference.

On day 2 of Accountex Tim and Dan take a moment to reflect on what trends we are seeing at the conference and discuss what we got up to on day/night 1!

On this live from Accountex episode of the podcast we sit down in the caravan of fun with John Munden (the Podfather himself) to discuss why you should go to your industry conferences!

This week we have our first politician on the show! David Harris our local member for Wyong and the Shadow minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Treaty, Jobs, Investment and Tourism and the Central Coast comes on the podcast to chat all things NSW state election. We discuss what small businesses should be considering when deciding who to vote and also how to use your local member more effectively! 

Our number 1 requested return guest and friend of the podcast Mike Mortlock of MCG Quantity Surveyors returns to chat to us about his experience in using public relations for his business. This is an area we want to be better at and so it was a great chance to ask someone who is actually using PR well!

This week we start the conversation about outsourcing to an overseas team. Did you know  many accountants and many other industries do this? We don't but we wanted to explore the idea further and find out the truth of this complex issue.