How advisory services and technology advances are shaping the future of the accounting industry with Spotlight Reporting

How advisory services and technology advances are shaping the future of the accounting industry webinar with Spotlight Reporting

Join Will Farnell, co-founder of App Advisory Plus and Farnell Clarke, Lauren Sanders, HR Director at Farnell Clarke, and Miranda Kendall, Spotlight Reporting’s Director of EMEA and North America, for this exclusive webinar.

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Hear Spotlight Reporting discuss their recently published Global Advisory Trends Report and unpack some of the key focus areas that have grabbed our attention. For example: the study found that the number one challenge for firms globally is recruitment and retention, which we will be discussing in depth with HR expert, Lauren.

We’ll be discussing:
- How many firms are offering advisory services and can they offer more
- Where can we go from here?
- The challenges ahead over the next 12 months, including how retaining staff is the number one perceived challenge for accounting firms.

Don’t miss out on our tell-all webinar where some of your burning industry questions can be answered. Register now.

Speakers:
Will Farnell, co-founder of App Advisory Plus and accounting firm Farnell Clarke, the UK's first 100% cloud accounting practice, based in Norwich, Norfolk with clients across East Anglia, London and the UK. Built by the team at Farnell Clarke, App Advisory Plus was developed to fulfil a need that so many accountants and businesses have - what Apps fit my client's or my own needs?

Miranda Kendall, Director of EMEA at Spotlight Reporting. With over 20 years as a leader working in SaaS, Miranda has enthusiasm for building and scaling businesses that are entering new markets, achieving results that impact. In her role at Trustpilot, she had a blank canvas and left the company performing £6M Annual Recurring Revenue.

Miranda is passionate about guiding teams to improve their operations using efficient, scalable and automated processes, advocating for assisting in fulfilling the spotlight mission of empowering accountants, advisors and CFOs to make better decisions and make a tangible impact on stakeholders in our community.

Lauren Sanders has been working as the HR Director at Farnell Clarke since April 2022, helping them to get Great Place to Work accreditation for the first time in the company’s history. With almost two decades of HR and Organisation Design experience, Lauren has worked across multiple sectors from manufacturing to healthcare, to bio tech and government.

Lauren is a member of the CIPD and also holds a Masters in Occupational Psychology and specialist interest in business resilience, socio-technical design, and organisation change. She currently oversees the people elements of Farnell Clarke’s strategy and has also engaged a number of clients offering similar services to assist in their growth. Having previously owned a furniture-making business, she brings with her a lived experience of the pressures that business owners face and understanding of the need for support from the experts in HR and finance services.