Thoughts on Revenue per square foot (the episode not the calculation)

A fun clip from a favourite show – once again pushing a stereotypical version of accounting. True – reports, crunched numbers, analysis- that is all provided by accountants. What if you could get the “Whisperer” of Donna and the report with the numbers?

No one could live up to her character but I think a modern CFO can go beyond what they’ve concluded to farm out in this scene!

To discuss & learn how your #financeleader can do more than numbers & also be a strategic #businessadvisor & #connector be in touch. http://www.amplifyadvisors.ca

https://www.bravo.ca/video/livestream?vid=1460336

Friday celebration

Beautiful week – So happy to work with this guy again. A week’s worth of quality #corporatereporting built by day 2 – stunning! Congrats Stu on the new gig. Amplify & I are excited to be part of your new journey. You will do great at Bearhill Brewing & you will love it. #epicteam

Fall: school starts, Amplify launches. It’s go time!

Back from biggest trip of my life.

Haven’t bought shoes, uniforms or a thing for the boys and Tuesday’s start date.

But I did make the big LinkedIn announcement about the new role as a founder of Amplify Advisors Inc. Someone sent a note saying “Congrats on the new job! I guess it’s official now that Linked In has told me 🙂 Please stay in touch! We need to go out for drinks:)”

She was bang on! It now is starting to feel real.

http://linkedin.com/in/jamielsmithcpa

Launch time!

Very excited about Amplify Advisors Inc.

Still doing what I’ve always done but now doing it for Amplify & dipping toes into new world of entrepreneurial, start-up & small business life (mine and new clients!).

So some of you are asking “why”?

Well, let’s go for coffee or happy hour and I will share the story. I’m at jamielsmith@amplifyadvisors.ca or book here: http://ow.ly/ZWrm30lBYfe

Others are asking “how can I help this small business?”

Why, thank you!

We can meet to discuss that too. In the meantime you can share our website & share/follow our social media with your network. We are excited to work with growing clients.

We offer Finance Leaders (CFO services) as well as Business Advisors and Connectors. Still helping finance teams of all size organizations with their projects & consulting needs. Also able to place professional accountants for roles on finance teams.

Please recommend and refer us.

Lastly, you might be wondering “do I need a Finance Leader (CFO)”

I have an infographic & lots of info to help answer this question too.

I officially took the weak veil of ambiguity down and it’s kick-off!

Our new website:

http://www.amplifyadvisors.ca

Our social media:

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#cfoservices #amplifylaunches #SchoolstartsSodowe

Accounting history, vacationing in Italy & the unexpected connection

Automation is amazing.

I spent the last 15 + days in Italy & on vacation.

I prewrote/scheduled all the posts you may have seen. I did this Aug long, before I left (from a baseball diamond where my creative accounting side flourishes).

Hootsuite & WordPress save the day.

While it may have presented as though I was thinking & breathing accounting & business – I actually did very little of that. Hardly logged in and hardly worried about a thing besides the present moment & the once in a lifetime trip I was on.

I’m recharged & ready to go!

Here is a lapse – this picture captures the moment I was reading about Florence (in Florence) & I learnt that the Medici family that commissioned & supported much of the art I had admired was also one of the first users of the general ledger & double entry accounting. What a discovery to be in a city that popularized accounting.

http://www.amplifyadvisors.ca

#accountinghistory #apps #automation

Bonus vacation pics (no accounting or business story):

Elon: interesting developments in accounting, governance & leadership

So many interesting things about the Elon Musk situation last week.

The accountant in me is troubled about how we keep up with Twitter & social media announcements on shares & business information. I’m more convinced that it is the compliance & laws that need updating but certainly an interesting challenge.

While our laws & expectations aren’t in line with modern communication, the governance side of me is concerned about the concept of a CEO putting specifics out that aren’t agreed to by the BoD. As well as leaders (of t.v. shows & countries, etc) tweeting when they can’t sleep & are of tired or drugged mind. The consequences of these actions seem greater than the benefits & go beyond governance.

Meanwhile the leader in me is really curious about the god-like attitude we have towards certain CEOs. Those that are genius, rare & if the rest of us behaved like that would fall flat very very fast.

And this gender discussion was also fairly insightful too!

Overall an interesting time & subject in business.

Gender: http://ow.ly/WIWX30lvrn2

Leadership: http://ow.ly/DJTY30lvrlF

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