Guy Pearson, CEO of Ignition, shines a light on innovators like Gareth Bryant (Scendar) and Lorilyn Wilson (Lake Oswego Tax) in the accounting sector.
Austin, Texas, September 20th — Ignition CEO and Co-Founder, and ex-accounting firm owner Guy Pearson today launched a new interview series 'Reconciling SaaS' for forward-thinking accountants that aspire to build high-growth, high-profit firms.
Available on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts, Reconciling SaaS explores new technologies, innovative business models, emerging trends, and growth strategies that can drive success in the accounting profession. Each month, Guy will put a spotlight on successful accounting firm owners from across the globe to share valuable insights and practical takeaways for accountants with a vision for growth and profitability.
"If you are an accountant looking to build a high-growth and high-profit accounting firm and are interested in learning about new technologies, business models, trends, and growth strategies, you'll want to hear from these changemakers in the industry," says Guy Pearson, CEO of Ignition.
Guy founded Interactive Accounting (a progressive accounting firm now known as Scendar) in 2009, before stepping away to focus on co-founding Ignition (formerly known as Practice Ignition) in 2013. With over 25 years in the accounting industry, Guy is embarking on this interview series to showcase others and have open conversations about some of the challenges the accounting industry still faces. These conversations can fast-track firm growth by highlighting those driving significant change, efficiencies, and as a result, success so that others in the accounting, tax, and bookkeeping industry can learn and apply.
Key highlights of 'Reconciling SaaS' include:
For the launch episode, Guy interviews Gareth Bryant, the CEO of Scendar, the firm Guy founded back in 2009. Scendar is an accounting and advisory practice better described as Finance as a Service (FaaS), focused on founders, funders, and startups. Gareth discusses why he moved from a traditional accounting firm to Interactive Accounting, key hires to make in the early days of your accounting firm, and his move into advisory services.
Upcoming episodes also include Lorilyn Wilson, Owner of Lake Oswego Tax, and founder of Mad Woman Media. Among other things, Lorilyn is interested in how to solve the CPA pipeline crises the industry is facing.
For more information, visit https://www.ignitionapp.com/reconciling-saas.
Founded in 2013, Ignition is a leading platform for professional services that empowers businesses to get paid faster, and run smarter. Ignition automates and optimizes proposals, client agreements, billing and payment collection to put an end to late payments, unbilled work and mundane repetitive admin. Ignition also integrates with leading apps such as Gusto, QuickBooks Online, Xero and Zapier to automate workflows and free up valuable time. Nearly 7,000 accounting and professional services businesses globally rely on Ignition to get paid faster for all of their work, run more efficiently, and become more profitable. To date, Ignition has helped facilitate more than 1.5 million client engagements and over 8 million payment transactions. Ignition has teams in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa, US and the UK, with around 180 employees globally.
Unfortunately, Ignition doesn't support payments in South Africa, but it's something we're working on in the future.
You'll still be able to engage clients seamlessly with online proposals and automated engagement letters, and run your business on autopilot by connecting apps to Ignition.
