12/02/2026
If you're still doing all your compliance work in-house and building an expensive team, and you haven't even looked at offshoring or outsourcing…
You're leaving money, time and energy on the table.
And I get it. Maybe you tried it before and it was a disaster. Maybe the work came back and you spent longer fixing it than if you'd just done it yourself. I hear that a lot.
But here's what I'd say to that.
That was then.
The quality now is genuinely not what it was even two or three years ago. It has improved massively. And if you're dismissing it based on an experience you had in 2019 or 2021, you owe it to yourself and your practice to take another look.
Its really fricken hard to run an accounting fir with good profits, where the founder actually takes home a good wage. i hear of people who work in industry, earn 100k, start their own firm and struggle to take home 50k. Double the work half the takehome. Telling themselves that the "freedom" they have given themselves is worth it.
Doh!
Listen, you and I both know that compliance fees are being squeezed. The traditional accounting firm is coming to the end of its era.
AI is coming for the process-heavy stuff. And firms overseas are delivering it faster and cheaper than most UK/USA practices can.
That's not a threat, it's not fearmongering. That's just what's happening.
So you've got two choices.
Keep competing on price for work that's getting commoditised by the day.
Or free yourself up from the stuff that's being driven down in value so you can focus on the work that actually moves the needle for your clients, enables you to make an impact and a blooming healthy profit.
This is the advisory. the strategy. The conversations that change how someone runs their business.
That's where your value is. That's where the profit is. And you can't do more of that if you're buried in bookkeeping and tax returns.
Offshoring isn't about cutting corners. It's about buying back your time so you can deliver more impact, charge what you're worth and build a practice that doesn't need you in it 50 hours a week.
If this has even made you a little bit curious, I've got something for you.
I'm running a free webinar with Tamryn Dicks where we're sharing exactly how to outsource with confidence, increase your profits and free up your time, without the horror stories.
If you would like to come, put your details into this page (here - https://businessadvisoracademy.com/webinar) , and we will send you the Zoom link.
Let me know below - what are your thoughts on offshoring/outsourcing... what are the horror stories and what are the wins you have had. The more you share the more the profession can learn and raise itself up.
