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FWO Chartered Accountants FWO Chartered Accountants are strategic financial partners for SME law firms.

We combine deep legal industry expertise with insight led advisory to help law firms grow with confidence, delivered through our Grow Your Firm program.

There are only three numbers a managing partner really needs to review each month. Most firms are drowning in twenty.Ave...
15/10/2026

There are only three numbers a managing partner really needs to review each month. Most firms are drowning in twenty.

Average rate recovered, work in progress ageing, and revenue lock-up. Everything else is detail that supports these three, not a substitute for them. Firms that build a monthly rhythm around these numbers make faster decisions and catch problems while they're still small.

Firms that don't tend to find out about a cash flow issue the same month it becomes a real problem. Worth checking whether these three sit on your desk every month, or only come up when something's gone wrong.

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We're delighted to welcome Stephen van Dorp to FWO CA as Associate Director.Stephen has spent almost 20 years in law fir...
08/10/2026

We're delighted to welcome Stephen van Dorp to FWO CA as Associate Director.

Stephen has spent almost 20 years in law firm finance and operations. He has led a law firm as CEO, worked as Regional Finance Manager for a global law firm, and been hands on in CFO and COO roles in SME law firms. He has also been involved with ALPMA for 12 years, including the last four as President.

That experience gives him a deep understanding of finance and operations across professional services, and the legal sector in particular. He knows what it takes to lift profit, and he's done it through a practical mix of financial insight, business development and marketing strategy, and operational improvements.

For the firms we work with, that means another person at the table who understands both sides: what the numbers say, and what it takes to act on them.

Stephen, welcome to the team. We're looking forward to what we'll do together for law firms across Australia.

Great to deliver a webinar with Smokeball Australia . Thank you to the Smokeball team for having us, and to everyone who...
07/10/2026

Great to deliver a webinar with Smokeball Australia . Thank you to the Smokeball team for having us, and to everyone who joined Matt Schlyder for "The billable hour isn't dead: the hidden economics of fixed fees".

Pricing is one of the biggest conversations in law firms right now, and the questions from the session showed just how many practice leaders are working through it.

06/10/2026

If you want to understand where profit and cash flow come from, look at work in progress.

The activities that move time in and out of work in progress, time entry, workflow, and then billing it out, are the exact activities that produce profitability and cash flow. Get those steps right and the numbers tend to follow.

Matt Schlyder explains why work in progress isn't just a reporting line. It's the engine room of a firm's financial performance.

Get a clearer view of your firm's work in progress fwoca.com.au

Some of the numbers that matter most to us have nothing to do with profit.We've committed to raising $2,000 a week for t...
02/10/2026

Some of the numbers that matter most to us have nothing to do with profit.

We've committed to raising $2,000 a week for the Wesley Mission Queensland Brisbane Relief Hub, a place that provides food, medical support and dignity to families doing it tough. It started with a visit to Hummingbird House back in 2019 and has grown into something our whole team shows up for, from Christmas donations to volunteering at the Hub itself.

Just 40 people giving $50 a week gets us there. If you'd like to be one of them, or bring your team along to volunteer, we'd love to hear from you.

Donate now: https://fundraise.wmq.org.au/fundraisers/FWOCharteredAccountants

30/09/2026

It's easy for a leader to set high expectations for a team. It's harder to make sure those expectations are ones you'd meet yourself.

When a principal or team leader asks for a standard, they couldn't hit themselves, people notice. That gap undermines trust faster than almost anything else, and it makes accountability feel one-sided rather than shared.

In this clip, Matt Schlyder talks about why realistic expectations, set from your own standard first, are what make leadership credible.

Lead with expectations your team can trust fwoca.com.au

Another ALPMA Summit down, and another reminder of how much law firm leaders want practical financial guidance, not gene...
27/09/2026

Another ALPMA Summit down, and another reminder of how much law firm leaders want practical financial guidance, not generic advice.

As Official Research and Education Partner, being part of the conversations in Geelong this month reinforced what we hear constantly from managing partners and practice managers alike: the firms that are clear on their numbers make faster, more confident decisions.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the stand and asked genuine questions about lock-up, rate recovery and what "insight" looks like in practice.

If we didn't get to chat, reply here or reach out directly.

ALPMA: Australasian Legal Practice Management Association

25/09/2026

Most firms don't lose profit through one big mistake. They lose it slowly, through gaps in the systems and processes that sit behind the work.

How you price, how you position what you do with clients, and how consistently that gets applied across the firm all shape how much revenue makes it to the bottom line. Left unchecked, the amount left on the table can be significant.

Matt Schlyder unpacks why the real opportunity for most firms isn't working harder. It's tightening the systems and positioning that determine what you're capturing.

Find out where your firm might be leaving money behind fwoca.com.au/growyourfirm/

Most law firms get their numbers quarterly or once a year. Our clients get them regularly.That difference changes how de...
23/09/2026

Most law firms get their numbers quarterly or once a year. Our clients get them regularly.

That difference changes how decisions get made. Instead of reacting to what happened six weeks ago, partners can see what's happening now and adjust before small problems become expensive ones.

This is what sits behind our Grow Your Firm pathway: clarity first, then insight. MiNumbers is how we make that real, connecting payroll and practice management data into one clear picture.

Worth asking whether your current reporting tells you what happened, or what to do next.

Learn more: fwoca.com.au/growyourfirm/

WMD Law grew income and profitability by at least 25 per cent in two years, without adding a single extra staff member.N...
21/09/2026

WMD Law grew income and profitability by at least 25 per cent in two years, without adding a single extra staff member.

No new hires, no bigger overheads, just a clearer view of the numbers that move the needle and a plan built around them. That's the difference between working harder and working with clarity. It's rarely about doing more. It's about knowing which numbers to act on.

Curious what that could look like in your firm fwoca.com.au

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Spring Hill, QLD

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Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

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07 3833 3999

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