Spotlight Articles for Advisory & Business

Singapore-headquartered accounting firm Stepping Stone is a digital-first practice, partnering with clients’ internal teams to implement software like Xero and Spotlight Reporting.

By the end of this blog post, you’ll have learnt about our range of time-saving templates, and have a solid understanding of how to get started with templates.

The gap between supply and demand for advisory services has shrunk in recent years, but it’s still well felt by SMEs, and under capatilised on by accounting firms.

I have spoken to so many firms over the years - listening to what works well, and what doesn’t. With that in mind, I thought I'd put down some notes about some of the common misconceptions I’ve observed over the years.

"As the sheer volume of systems needed in operating a practice grow, there is the ever growing challenge of controlling this," says Tony.

Richard Francis FCA sums up what it’s like to be in the accounting ecosystem for a decade and what he’s learnt along the way.

"It would be great to have meetings in VR someday soon," says Stone.

Since I’ve been working at Spotlight for a number of years now, I thought it was well overdue to share some of our clients' favourite, and sometimes even overlooked features.

"I believe the greatest issue facing the accounting industry is our ability to evolve and reimagine our services in this new reality, at pace."

"Automation is something that will continue to shake the industry," says Joyce.

Gilbert Robertson, Director of NZ accounting firm Your Success, is a long-time user of Spotlight Reporting. But he also knows from experience that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

2020 was a record year for Spotlight content—we hosted 149 webinars, and published over 60 blog posts. We don’t expect you to consume it all during the holiday season though, so here are our top 20 webinar recordings, blog posts, downloadable resources, and Spotlight highlights for 2020.

While we’re excited to close the chapter on 2020 and head into 2021, we wanted to take a moment to step back and reflect on our progress over the last year.

Business Fitness's "Good, Bad, and Ugly" Technology Poll of 2020 revealed the number one issue accounting firms have with their tech-stack: lack of utilisation.

Highlights from our recent Consolidated Forecasting Webinar featuring CEO Richard Francis and Product Manager Matt Kekena.