Challenging the status quo of accounting operations, with Stefan van Duyvendijk

03/17/23 • 31 min

Stefan van Duyvendijk is the Accounting Operations Evangelist at FloQast. In this episode, Stefan chats with Stuart about the pains that drove FloQast's founders to building their own solution, and what sets the company apart from its competitors in the marketplace.

Together, Stefan and Stuart discuss:

Living and skiing in Utah (02:00)
A fed-up accountant's quest for changing the status quo (05:32)
Stefan's career journey before FloQast (08:08)
Adopting new skill sets as a brand evangelist (12:09)
How FloQast is redefining accounting operations (14:12)
FloQast's 2023 strategic plan (21:00)
Building a user-centric product (23:51)
What's next for Stefan (27:20)

Together, Stefan and Stuart discuss:

Living and skiing in Utah (02:00)
A fed-up accountant's quest for changing the status quo (05:32)
Stefan's career journey before FloQast (08:08)
Adopting new skill sets as a brand evangelist (12:09)
How FloQast is redefining accounting operations (14:12)
FloQast's 2023 strategic plan (21:00)
Building a user-centric product (23:51)
What's next for Stefan (27:20)

Previous Episode

Daring to lead. A conversation with Natalie Lennon

Natalie Lennon, accounting firm owner, automation guru and podcaster, joins Stuart to discuss her career journey that led to Two Sides Accounting. They also chat about the talent shortage and what Natalie is doing to live the '4-day work week dream'.

Natalie’s winding journey in accounting (2:00)
Becoming a partner at 28 years old (6:10)
The light-bulb moment that birthed Two Sides Accounting (7:15)
A passion for working with startups and progressive businesses (9:00)
Work smarter, not harder through automation (10:00)
The talent shortage and coming full circle around remote work (13:30)
COVID's financial impact on small businesses (17:00)
Setting boundaries to enable the ‘4-day work week dream' (21:55)
Finding equilibrium between work, life, and growth (23:30)

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Solving big problems in a small town, with Meghan Blair

Meghan Blair lives and works in Nantucket, Massachusetts, a tourist town with a close-knit community. In this episode, Meghan and Stuart discuss COVID's impact on seasonal economies, what accounting professionals can do to help, and an exciting update for Meghan's firm—Fogged in Bookkeeping.

The unforgettable experience of living on a cattle farm in Australia (03:17)
The cultural and economic diversity in Nantucket, Massachusetts (09:20)
COVID's impact on service-based, seasonal economies (12:57)
Building sustainability, and social responsibility metrics into accounting processes (15:10)
How COVID accelerated innovative, data-driven problem-solving in Nantucket's food and hospitality industry (18:29)
Growing a remote accounting firm before it was popular (24:07)
Karbon's instrumental role in Meghan's bookkeeping practice (29:00)
Fogged in Bookkeeping's merger with GrowthLab (30:00)