Spotlight Articles for Advisory & Business

Making Tax Digital (MTD) is driving significant change in the UK accounting industry. Being ready for digital is important from a compliance angle, but it's also the first step in a wider journey towards delivering value-add services, deeper advisory insights and up selling those services to boost your overall firm revenues.

Read this starter's guide to understand how to best sell advisory services to accounting clients.

You need a core transformation strategy in place to effectively kickstart the evolution and transformation of your accountancy firm in order to achieve success. This means having a clear vision, setting the right goals, and taking positive action to manage this change.

All accounting firms need a core advisory transformation strategy. You won't transform your team into winners without the right planning, goal-setting and training. Check out how in our latest post.

An accounting firms' success is increasingly due to their people skills, rather than just their ability to crunch the numbers. Going beyond the numbers to provide analysis, guidance and forecast insights is now the focus for modern accounting firms.‍

A modern looking report cover design is an essential tool for giving your clients an amazing first impression and professional experience at every client meeting. Our new range of report covers are designed to put you firmly in control of the report design.

We’re delighted to launch our Advisory Advantage Podcast series lifting the lid on advisory success, with leading accountants sharing their tips and tricks to succeed with an advisory-driven strategy.

Explore how to make consolidation accurate, regular, achievable and scalable with cutting-edge cloud technologies.

From 25 May, there are a number of changes to our Privacy Policy, reflecting the increased transparency requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (known as the ‘GDPR’).

Our mantra at Spotlight is to keep innovating and improving what we do so that our customer experience is better year-on-year. It was time for a brand refresh, a few in-app design improvements and an overhaul of our look and feel.

Here’s the top five benefits for an accounting firm using our new Spotlight Forecasting loan amortisation rule.

In this post, our CEO Richard Francis defines what is a Virtual CFO and how reporting tools such as Spotlight enables accountants to deliver Virtual CFO services for their clients.

This is the ultimate list of reasons why Xero accountants should connect to Spotlight Reporting app.

Strategy lies at the heart of most successful businesses. Businesses that plan & have clear objectives always outperform those that just go through the motions.

In this blog post, we’ve compiled the most popular features of our Reporting app for Xero, MYOB and Intuit QuickBooks Online.