The Practitioner: Don't rate some clients...
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The Practitioner: Don't rate some clients...

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The Practitioner: Don't rate some clients...

Free from self assessment deadline hell, the Practitioner puts thought to rating clients Read More...

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The Practitioner: Do partners realise Cash is King?
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The Practitioner: Do partners realise Cash is King?

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The Practitioner: Do partners realise Cash is King...

The Practitioner talks credit control - and hopes that the firm's other partners listen Read More...

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The Practitioner: Taxing times in the New Year
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The Practitioner: Taxing times in the New Year

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The Practitioner: Taxing times in the New Year

As the office Christmas party fades into the distance, thoughts turn to the January tax return deadline Read More...

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The Practitioner: Partners Pottering about
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The Practitioner: Partners Pottering about

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The Practitioner: Partners Pottering about

Not quite A Wonderful Life for the Practitioner Read More...

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The Practitioner: The boring profitable client
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The Practitioner: The boring profitable client

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The Practitioner: The boring profitable client

Even the biggest clients have a shelf life, so keeping the relationship fresh and exciting is vital if you want to hold on to them Read More...

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The Practitioner: What's in a name?
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The Practitioner: What's in a name?

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The Practitioner: What's in a name?

The Practitioner's firm is branching out Read More...

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The Practitioner: Sharpening the axe
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The Practitioner: Sharpening the axe

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The Practitioner: Sharpening the axe

Sometimes a change is as good as a holiday. Though in our case a change of personnel across the three offices is as good as a redundancy. Well maybe n...

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The Practitioner: Champagne bankers
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The Practitioner: Champagne bankers

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The Practitioner: Champagne bankers

Are the banks back in business? Is it me, or have banks made a big effort recently to get involved? We have had a wave of bank activity, kicked off b...

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The Practitioner: senior partners can be a senior headache
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The Practitioner: senior partners can be a senior headache

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The Practitioner: senior partners can be a senior ...

Having older partners is never easy. The Practitioner looks at the hard bits and considers the benefits Read More...

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The Practitioner: Summertime blues
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The Practitioner: Summertime blues

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The Practitioner: Summertime blues

Summer brings its own share of challenges for The Practitioner and his efforts to maintain productivity Read More...

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The Practitioner: It's been emotional!
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The Practitioner: It's been emotional!

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The Practitioner: It's been emotional!

Getting an email in the right tone for a client can be a nightmare. Getting your staff to get them in the right tone can be a nightmare of an entirely...

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The Practitioner: The art of changing light bulbs
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The Practitioner: The art of changing light bulbs

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The Practitioner: The art of changing light bulbs

I kid you not, it involved five accountants in our office to organise having a bulb replaced in the reception area. Seriously, five, and it still hasn...

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The Practitioner: Bending over backwards for golf
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The Practitioner: Bending over backwards for golf

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The Practitioner: Bending over backwards for golf

Every year I take a month out of my busy post April calendar to organise the work’s Corporate Golf Day. It sounds grander that it actually is, after a...

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The Practitioner: Left in the lurch - who's making the coffee?
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The Practitioner: Left in the lurch - who's making the coffee?

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The Practitioner: Left in the lurch - who's making...

Trainees. It is holiday season in the office and also student study leave season. Throw in a couple of bank holidays and a couple of sick days and the...

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The Practitioner: replacing partners with Twitter
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The Practitioner: replacing partners with Twitter

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The Practitioner: replacing partners with Twitter

BEEN struggling over the past month or so to convince my Partners over the best way to win new clients. Personally I think that the new methods of mar...

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The Practitioner: stuck in the middle
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The Practitioner: stuck in the middle

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The Practitioner: stuck in the middle

The Practitioner gets stuck between two warring partners Read More...

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The Practitioner: the client's always right
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The Practitioner: the client's always right

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The Practitioner: the client's always right

This week the Practitioner is trying to save clients from the "rude, condescending, bearded man" Read More...

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The Practitioner: caring for clients
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The Practitioner: caring for clients

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The Practitioner: caring for clients

The Practitioner always has a shoulder for clients to cry on, just so long as it's not his shoulder Read More...

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The Practitioner: being Frank
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The Practitioner: being Frank

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The Practitioner: being Frank

If only The Practitioner could get out of the office once in a while Read More...

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The Practitioner: cooking up trouble
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The Practitioner: cooking up trouble

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The Practitioner: cooking up trouble

Installing a kitchen has warmed up the office dynamics as well as few lunches Read More...

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The Practitioner: winter blues
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The Practitioner: winter blues

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The Practitioner: winter blues

What other industry dedicates an entire month chasing after their worst clients? The Practitioner ponders Read More...

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The Practitioner: time for tax returns
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The Practitioner: time for tax returns

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The Practitioner: time for tax returns

The Practitioner faces up to tax returns, the office manager and the February Read More...

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The Practitioner: holiday mood
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The Practitioner: holiday mood

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The Practitioner: holiday mood

The Practitioner is still recovering from the office Christmas party Read More...

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The Practitioner: Beware rampant favouritism
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The Practitioner: Beware rampant favouritism

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The Practitioner: Beware rampant favouritism

The Practitioner mulls the pitfalls of developing favourites at the cost of under-performance Read More...

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The Practitioner: paying the bills
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The Practitioner: paying the bills

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The Practitioner: paying the bills

BUSY DOING NOTHING? Everyone is complaining about being too busy, chargeable time is at an all time high, yet the bill book is as bare as Mother Hubba...

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The Practitioner: playing peacemaker
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The Practitioner: playing peacemaker

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The Practitioner: playing peacemaker

Being peacemaker is not a role I would normally expect to take on in the workplace. At home with a couple of teenagers in full battle yes, but not in ...

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The Practitioner: always on
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The Practitioner: always on

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The Practitioner: always on

Ever feel that your life is controlled by your email inbox? I'm definitely starting to get that feeling. My new smartphone and the wonders of Microsof...

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