Earn Your True Worth: Find Greater Success in Your Professional Service Firm (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781468144178)

The author has been an accountancy practitioner for over 40 years, has provided direct assistance to many hundreds of professional practitioners as a coach, mentor and faciltator, pioneered the concept of practitioner networks working together to improve their management, business and lifestyles and the book brings together what amounts to a step-by-step approach to greater success based upon the author's many years of very practical experience and understanding of the day-to-day needs of professional practitioners. David is a sought after seminar and conference speaker and has addressed a great many of the major accounting conferences in Australia. He has had numerous articles published in the media including all of the major accounting professional journals. In addition to holding most accounting qualifications and registrations throughout his career he has also completed formal training, accreditation and qualifications as a facilitator and consultant. He has worked as a senior equity partner in Australia's largest accounting firm for close to 20 years as well as a partner in a major second-tier firm and a smaller 2-partner firm. He very much appreciates the issues that keep practitioners awake at nights! He has served on many company Boards and held roles as Chairman, Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Finance Committee. One such appointment was made by the Federal Government at the time of privatisation of an engineering company the became one of the World's leading engineering companies. Throughout his career David has built and sold 8 professional practices and has a very good appreciation of the need to be 'investor ready' at all times. He has travelled many thousands of kilometers across Australia, New Zealand and overseas, consulting with and studying accounting firms ranging in size from sole proprietors to the Big 4. He is also very much a family man, with five adult children, each of whom he is very proud - between them they have ten certificates and degrees in various business disciplines.