Improving the Client’s Quality of Life w/ Steve Pipe
Building the Premier Accounting Firm
Release Date: 07/06/2022
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info_outlineIn this episode, Roger and Best-Selling author and former UK Entrepreneur of the Year, Steve Pipe, discuss the importance and role that accountants and wealth managers play in creating a good quality of life for their clients.
Steve shares his personal story of how he helped his dad, a printer who felt overwhelmed by the shift in technology in the industry, retire early by creating a personal balance sheet for him.
They also discuss why as an accountant you should always give one-page summaries to your clients and much more
Your Host: Roger Knecht, president of Universal Accounting Center
Guest Name: Steve Pipe
Previously named as the world’s most highly rated accountant and advisor to accountants, Steve is a best-selling author, dynamic speaker and former UK Entrepreneur of The Year. As a co-founder of Speakers for Good, he is a passionate advocate of the Business for Good movement, where his goal is to help provide 100 million days of help to people in need across the world (with the total amount provided so far standing at 19million days).
His books for accountants include “The World’s Most Inspiring Accountants”, which has been described by other practice development gurus as a “masterpiece”, “ground-breaking” and “desperately needed”, and “The UK’s best accountancy practices”, which ICAEW President Mark Spofforth describes on the dust jacket as “brilliant”
His other books include “101 ways to make more profits”, “Stress proof your business and your life”, “How to build a better business and make more money”, and the “Better business, Better life, Better world “trilogy
In 2021 he is researching and writing “The world’s most inspiring businesses”.
Outside of work Steve has been married (to an accountant) for almost 40 years, has three adult children, and lives in Yorkshire. His hobbies include playing tennis badly and playing blues guitar terribly.
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