‘Appy Hour Blog

We had so much fun hanging out with Kellie Parks with Calm Waters! She joined us for a Firm Spotlight on February 28th, 2023. A little bit about Kellie’s firm Kellie has a micro booking firm; she has her monthly recurring clients but also enjoys taking on the “hot...

On February 21st, 2023 Liz and Heather were joined by Ian Vacin of Karbon for a Campfire Chat about the Art & Science of Decision Making. Ian is the co-founder and Chief Partnerships Officer of Karbon! Ian was also Heather's mentor when she first started off as a...

Heather and Liz kicked off their firm spotlight episode series on February 14th, 2023!! Our first episode featured Michelle Vilms of Vilms Consulting. Michelle was voted in the top 50 women in accounting by ignition and is now on their council this year! She is also...

On Tuesday, January 17, 2023, Heather and Liz reunited with Mike Triantos of Jirav, Evan Wells of Jirav, and Dawn Brolin of the Designated Motivator. Such great humans and we had a blast! There are so many great things that came out of camp and in this episode, we...

On December 20th,2022 Heather and Liz were joined by Heather Sperduto from ADP for this month's Campfire Chat Series. Heather has been with ADP for 2 decades! She really enjoyed our intimate moments at camp when the thought leaders and attendees could share their...

On December 13th, 2022 Heather and Liz were joined by Shahram Zarshenas from Financial Cents to discuss organizing your firm and getting more done. Shahram mentioned baking a cake as an analogy: When your firm is small, maybe just you and a few clients, everything you...

Accounting itself is a serious and delicate work. Put disorganized workflows and a disjointed team on top of it, and you’ll have a full-blown disaster. Take Larisa Lopez for example. She started her firm by managing all her accounting processes with spreadsheets,...

On November 22nd, 2022 Liz and Heather were joined by Heather Sperduto from ADP to discuss dominating year-end with account connect. We discussed the top 3 things that come to mind when you are approaching year-end. Liz’s top 3 were team meetings to discuss 1099...

On November 15th, 2022 Liz and Heather kicked off the Post Camp Campfire Chat series! The Campfire Chats is a special edition to bring in the camp sponsors and share some of the “since camp” updates and what their teams have been up to. In this episode, they were...