{"id":6831,"date":"2020-08-04T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:02:06","slug":"practice-of-now-accountants-bookkeepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/practice-of-now-accountants-bookkeepers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Practice of Now 2020: Essential insights to support accountants and bookkeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Based on an independent survey of more than 3,000 accounting professionals worldwide, the Practice of Now 2020 report shines a light on the accountancy landscape of today \u2013\u00a0and tomorrow.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s guide demonstrates how accountancy is on the brink of positive disruption as the third decade of the 21st century gets underway.<\/p>\n

As such, it\u2019s simply necessary reading for any accountant.<\/p>\n

\n\tDownload your free copy of The Practice of Now<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n

Incredible insight and expert input<\/h2>\n

The Practice of Now 2020 includes commentary from Sage expert voices including Chris Downing, former chartered accountant and now director for accountants and bookkeepers at Sage.<\/p>\n

It also includes comment from Julia Wedgwood, former bookkeeper and now product manager for accountants at Sage.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a snippet of Downing\u2019s insight:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most disruptive practices have got progressive people with ideas. They respect the existing accountancy model but are willing to experiment beyond the bounds of their comfort zone in order to deliver more services in a varied, more efficient manner that is exciting to clients.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nicky Larkin, managing director of Goringe Accountants<\/a>, provides understanding from within the profession.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, new to the report for this year is a second independent qualitative survey among business owners and operators worldwide.<\/p>\n

This provides incredible understanding of what they expect from the accounting professionals<\/a> they use \u2013 and what can be done better.<\/p>\n

Some of the key findings in The Practice of Now report<\/h2>\n

The report is packed full of fascinating and often surprising findings. Here\u2019s just a couple of them:<\/p>\n

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  • Moving beyond accounting: <\/strong>79% of survey respondents are confident or very confident in providing business management and advisory services, such as marketing, cash flow, HR, people management, and growth modelling.<\/li>\n
  • Customer expectations:<\/strong> 82% of accountants agree that customer expectations have widened to include services such as advising on relevant finance and accounting technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Download now<\/h2>\n

    This year\u2019s Practice of Now report is mandatory reading for any accounting professional. It provides an unparalleled degree of insight into their industry \u2013 and shows how the profession is changing.<\/p>\n

    Put simply, the report is a gift to the accountant that wants to get ahead.<\/p>\n\n

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    The Practice of Now makes for essential reading for accountants and bookkeepers. Find out why then download your free report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":6796,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sage_video":false,"post_featured_image_hide":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,165],"tags":[105,129],"business_type":[2],"lilypad":[],"context":[],"industry":[],"persona":[176],"imagine_tag":[177],"coauthors":[393],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-guides-templates","category-strategy-legal-operations","tag-bookkeeping","tag-grow-accounting-practice","business_type-accountants"],"sage_meta":{"region":"en-ie","author_name":"Keir Thomas-Bryant","featured_image":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/07\/THWKiel_FY20_Sage100_711.jpg","imagine_tags":{"177":"Accountants"}},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Sage Advice Ireland","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/6796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"business_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/business_type?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"lilypad","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/lilypad?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"context","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/context?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"imagine_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/imagine_tag?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ie\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}