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How businesses are thriving with distributed teams (and what you can learn from them)

Many modern businesses have staff working from different locations, contributing to the same goal. This is what you can learn from them.

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The talent playbook
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30 interview questions to help you identify the best candidate
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The 5 trends shaping modern workplace collaboration
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Balance your practice with production and capacity planning techniques
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5 soft skills every modern accountant needs

Discover the most important soft skills for modern accountants to possess, and how to help your current team develop them.

Developing tomorrow's top accountants

You have control over how quickly your young staff develop into leading accountants. With these strategies you will make sure they are constantly improving from top to bottom.

Why context is key to effective collaboration

When your team communicates out of context to the bigger piece of the puzzle, it creates confusion and inefficiencies. Why don’t we question this?

Collaboration best practices for remote teams

Working in a distributed team is quite different from collaborating with teammates in the same room. But by following these best practices, it's still possible to achieve great things together.

How to align your team around a shared mission

5 techniques to keep your team focused and working towards achieving one shared goal and mission.

The 5 trends shaping modern workplace collaboration

The trends shaping how your team interact, communicate, and get things done together, and what you should do about them.

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Building Your Team

The 3 stages to recruiting the perfect accountant
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Thinking differently to build the best accounting team
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5 innovative examples of recruiting in accounting
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30 interview questions to help you identify the best candidate

We spoke with managers from high-performing accounting firms to find out the best interview questions to ask when hiring new candidates.

Insights from Karbon's 2017 talent survey

Compare the challenges your practice is facing acquiring, training and retaining staff with other accounting firms from around the world.

The talent playbook

The steps, tools and strategies to help your accounting firm excel at recruiting, training and retaining the best talent.

Collaboration in the new accounting firm

How do you make sure your firm is making the most of its collaborative potential? Here are some behaviours that will help make your accounting practice a more collaborative one.

I’ve got this — The importance of ownership

How do you get every individual in a firm to care as much as those who founded it? The solution lies in ownership.

Teamwork with gusto

Teamwork: what does it mean? What does it mean to you? Most importantly, what does it mean to your team and accounting practice?

Organizing your firm’s end of year party

For most firms the end of year party is a key event on the social and team-building calendar. Steph Hinds from Growthwise shares her tips on how you can organize your team's get-together-and-be-merry using Karbon.

5 traits of the perfect Practice Manager

Your Practice Manager is an integral part of your business who drives your vision and keeps everything on track. Here are 5 traits they must have.

Write a job ad to attract your ideal candidate

Any job ad will get you resumes. But a great job ad will attract quality resumes from worthy candidates, cutting down on administration time and saving your firm money.

#MTA — You: reflection & self-awareness

To set your firm for a successful year, you need to take some time to understand yourself and your practice. What is working in your business and what needs to change based on your objectives?

#MTA — Your business: design the accounting firm you want

In this second instalment of the month of the thinking accountant, we will explore why it’s important to design the firm you want. How you define what that actually looks like and the steps you need to take to get there.

#MTA — Your team: is it the right one for the firm you want?

Explore why a high performing team is crucial to success, how to find the right members and what (if any) changes need to be made to your current team.

#MTA — Action! The do and the how — make a plan

Thinking without action is pointless. Long, old school business plans that never get looked at are a waste of time. So after all these sessions of thinking, planning and designing, this final MTA video is where it all comes together!

Finders, minders & grinders

Finders, minders and grinders are commonly used terms in the accounting industry to describe types of staff. How well do you know what these terms mean?

The ins & outs of change management

Explore the key principles of change management and how they can apply and work best in your accounting practice