How would your best accountant friend recommend you streamline your law firm’s management of bookkeeping, accounting, and general finances? Listen & find out…

Show Notes

Amanda Aguillard has been a Certified Public Accountant since 2001. She holds a Masters Degree in Taxation from the University of Denver, and loves helping small law firms (and other small businesses) improve their financial data handling and accounting (especially by harnessing useful technologies).

  • Aguillard Accounting – Amanda’s main business website
  • Amanda’s Training Service for accountants and bookkeepers
  • Xero; – online accounting service recommended by Amanda
  • Quickbooks online – online accounting service by Intuit
  • Zapier; – connect cloud services and create mind-blowing automations
  • MileIQ; – automated vehicle mileage tracking app
  • HubDoc; – automatically imports financial data to Quickbooks, Xero and Box (now owned by Xero)

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And as soon as you register for the Bootcamp you’ll get access to 60+ lessons that have been pre-recorded, plus you’ll be invited to a weekly webinar series that will run each Thursday or Friday up until the May 7th & 8th Bootcamp.

In case you’re wondering how the current global virus crisis will affect the Bootcamp, it won’t affect it much. We’ll have the live sessions in New Orleans and live stream those for folks who want to participate remotely (and get access to recordings of the live streams).

And if for any reason, we can’t do the live sessions in the hotel we’ll shift to completely virtual programming via GoToWebinar sessions all day on May 7th and 8th. And those sessions will be recorded as well.

So, once you sign up for the Bootcamp you’ll get access to pre-recorded content and to live webinars, which are all being recorded.

If you don’t want to register for the Bootcamp, but want to attend the weekly webinars you can do so by signing up here (you won’t get access to any recorded material; just the live weekly webinars).

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BTW, I’d love to hear your questions or get feedback (if you want to record your thoughts using this cool tool).

Also, you might want to download my free Guide to Working Smarter in the Digital Age (to help you optimize your practice —so you start working less and relaxing more).
And if you want to make improvements faster, check out my Working Smarter course.

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P.S. If you're a practicing lawyer, check out this Law Practice Assessment . After answering a few questions, you'll get detailed recommendations for improving five key areas of your practice.