About businessfitness™, the company
In mid-2001 businessfitness™ identified that accounting firms and their clients lacked a simple means of standardising and systemising their businesses. While most accounting firm partners and business owners relate to the ‘systemise your business’ and ‘work ON your business, not just IN your business’ messages espoused by authors such as Michael Gerber in his E-Myth books, few knew exactly HOW to achieve that. There was no tool available to make this easy. Most intranets are clumsy and slow to use (yes, even the expensive ones), not to mention costly to maintain and difficult to keep up-to-date. This led to the development of HowNow® ...
What Makes Us Unique?
businessfitness™ has a unique and powerful combination of three things:
- Strategy: The industry benchmarking survey and practice management guide The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Accounting Profession™ is Australia's leading publication on how to build a better accounting firm. Many consider it 'the bible' of practice management yet this publication is but the tip of the iceberg in terms of the industry knowledge and expertise in the team at businessfitness™. Our clients benefit from the advice they receive on an ongoing basis from their assigned Client Manager who steps them through our unique implementation methodology...
- Methodology: businessfitness™ has developed a proven practice development process for accounting firms that addresses practice management, knowledge management, document management and records management practices within the firm. Combined with the recommended Good Bad Ugly™ strategies this approach ensures effective implementation of our proprietary technology...
- Technology: Our technology is our software and our content. The world class HowNow® software, procedures and templates provide end-to-end knowledge management, document management and records (including email) management. Our accounting firm clients also receive monthly HowNow® Accountants content updates of revised and updated procedures, standard documents and templates. Our unique 'content push' technology publishes these documents straight into our clients' intranet on their network —that is, straight into their firm's HowNow®. HowNow®, how easy.
Any one of these three elements provides benefits in isolation. Together, they are a highly effective mix. businessfitness™ is the only company than can offer you this unique combination of strategy, methodology and technology.
Our Clients
businessfitness™ has many hundreds of accounting firm clients around Australia. We also have hundreds of business clients in a wide variety of industries. These general business clients are usually introduced to us by their accountant, one of our existing clients.
Examples of our clients include accounting firms, financial planning firms, franchise groups, finance companies, mining companies, software companies, charities, health care practitioners, engineering firms, primary producers, restaurants, hotels, plumbers, construction companies ... and more.
The vast majority of our clients are accounting firms because this was the industry we chose to focus on first. HowNow® applies to any business that has 5 or more people working at computers, however our marketing efforts focus on accounting firms.
Our Team
The founders of businessfitness™ include accountants, business coaches, systems consultants and programmers who have worked in and with the accounting industry and the small and medium size enterprise (SME) market for decades. Members of the businessfitness™ Board of Directors have experience founding and leading successful software and consulting firms in Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom.
Careers
businessfitness™ is a growing company always looking for outstanding candidates to join the team. Typically people come to us through word of mouth, however occasionally we advertise positions vacant.
Even if we're not looking to fill a specific position at the time, if a candidate impresses us enough, we'll find a role for them as we grow. We are particularly interested in speaking with you if you have a background of working in accounting firms (or similar professional service firms), and you also have strong computer/IT skills and/or consulting/coaching/training skills.
We're an innovative company offering the right people tremendous opportunities for personal and career growth. However, be warned: We have a self-selecting culture with a flat management structure where team members must self-manage and be high performers. We don't have a layer of middle management to micro-manage you, so you need to be excellent at what you do and you need to be a performer and producer, willing to roll your sleeves up, show initiative and do whatever it takes. If you're not, you're not cut out to join the businessfitness™ team.
So if you're great at what you do, and you have a background in areas ranging from accounting, to software, to consulting, to speaking and training, to marketing, to administration and simply getting things done, please contact us and let us know about the sort of role you're looking for.
Media
If you would like to:
- Interview a member of our team or some of our clients,
- Receive a press kit containing photographs and logo artwork,
- Have us be a regular article or column contributor to your magazine, newspaper or online publication, or
- Have us speak at one of your events,
please contact us and let us know your requirements.
Contact Us
- Telephone
1300 333 424 (within Australia)
+61 7 3380 9000 (outside Australia)
Office Hours 8:30am to 5:00pm Mon-Friday AEST
- Facsimile
1800 89 89 89 (within Australia)
+61 7 3380 9099 (outside Australia)
- Head Office & Postal Address
Suite 205, Level 1, 58-60 Manila Street
Beenleigh, 4207, Queensland, Australia
businessfitness™ has team members in
Brisbane • Sydney • Melbourne • Adelaide • Perth |
