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Three Key Financial Reports for Creative Services Firms

Essential Financial Reports Every Creative Services Firm Needs: How to Read and Use Them For Smarter, More Confident Decision-Making We work exclusively with creative service firms, the brilliant souls serving clients of their own in marketing, brand and business strategy, architecture, design and more. Most owners want to be financially successful but are understandably unequipped … Read more

3 Reasons Why Your Office Manager Shouldn’t Be Your Bookkeeper

Outsourced accounting services can help agencies avoid a common pitfall – the thinking that the accounting role of a bookkeeper can be held by anybody on the team, especially folks who already have some kind of admin function, like an office manager. Bookkeeping is often seen as a compliance function in small agencies — somebody … Read more

Outsourced Accounting Services: Before you hire an in-house accountant — here’s how to clarify your most important deliverables

Hiring an outsourced accounting services expert or bringing your accounting in-house is an important move for any agency or professional services firm. You want to ensure your investment pays off, and most business owners can’t afford to hire the wrong person for the role. To help you decide between engaging an outsourced accounting services expert … Read more

Using Value Based Pricing for Creative Services

What’s the value or price of a good idea? Can you put a price on creativity? At Fiscally, the topic comes up often: how do you price creativity? Often, we find that creatives don’t love to fuss with the numbers and risk missing the forest for the trees. There are some things you can’t put … Read more

4 CFO Performance Metrics You’re Probably Missing If You Don’t Have a CFO

These are 4 “CFO performance metrics” that every marketing agency, PR agency, communications agency, or professional services firm should be paying attention to.   Most agency owners don’t go into business to be experts in managing their finances and administrative needs. Chances are, you’re probably a really skilled practitioner who built your business over time through … Read more