Staying afloat in 2009: Keep your practice and clients in the black

Date : 21st October 2008

Time:  3pm

Duration : 1hour

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Staying afloat in 2009: Keep your practice and clients in the black

Battening down the hatches might seem to be the order of the day for you and your clients, but what opportunities lie ahead? Can your firm ride out the slowdown by helping clients grow?

The latest Accountancy Age Practice Web Seminar uncovers the financial and practical aspects of growing your firm and your clients' businesses during tough conditions, with help from our panel of experts.

Speakers include:

Phil Donathy

Head of Product Management
Sage

Phil Donathy is the Head of Product Management for Sage Accountants' Division. He's been with the company for over eight years in a variety of commercially focused roles, from project and programme management to business development and now product management. Some of his key achievements include setting up a product release process from scratch and driving Accountants' Division towards a truly customer led product strategy.

Piyali Williams

Head of Professionals Propositions

HSBC

HSBC appointed Piyali Williams as Head of Professional Business Banking to lead the development of HSBC’s bespoke financial services for solicitors, barristers and accountants. With 160 professional specialists based in Commercial Banking Centres across the UK, HSBC is a major player in providing expert, high quality banking services to professionals.
Piyali brings a wealth of experience to the Professionals sector, having previously helped Barclays develop their package for Professionals. In her role, Piyali works alongside HSBC’s network of professional specialists to further develop the service offered to lawyers and accountants, providing technical support and guidance to Commercial Centre teams.

Peter Denton

Director

Williams Denton cyf

After training as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Leicester, I worked in practice for several years and was admitted to the Chartered Institute of Taxation in 1980.  I then spent two years lecturing at Caer Rhun Hall, North Wales.
I joined H Cecil Williams in Bangor on 1 October 1983.  Since then the practice has opened a second office in Llandudno and has grown to include 5 Directors and 31 staff between the two offices.
I was honoured to be appointed the first president of ACCA North Wales and I have served on the ACCA Wales steering committee for 6 years.
Last year I was elected As Wales Representative on the International assembly of ACCA and I have joined the ACCA small practitioners  panel.
I have recently been co-opted onto the ICAEW International Auditing Standards Implementation Panel.

Phil Shohet

Director

KATO Consultancy

Phil Shohet FCA is a director of KATO Consultancy, which offers practices a range of services designed to increase operational efficiency improve profitability and, ultimately, create a business of real value that will fund partners’ exit routes whilst maintaining continuous development and profitability. He writes a monthly column for Accountancy Age’s sister title on these and other issues.