TTPP92: 3 Years into Starting a Tax Firm to Gain More Freedom with Omar Aswat
01/15/24 • 53 min
Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP92
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You’ll Learn
- A bit about Omar Aswat CTA and his journey in tax so far
- (11:30) Challenges Omar’s had from having his own firm
- (16:00) Big pros from having his own tax firm and how Omar went from being employed to running his own firm
- (26:00) The first big advisory projects that Omar won
- (35:00) How Omar was able to develop his advisory skills
- (40:30) Spotting opportunities to help save tax or support clients to benefit them and win you work
Resources
Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse
Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP92
Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe
Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse
You’ll Learn
- A bit about Omar Aswat CTA and his journey in tax so far
- (11:30) Challenges Omar’s had from having his own firm
- (16:00) Big pros from having his own tax firm and how Omar went from being employed to running his own firm
- (26:00) The first big advisory projects that Omar won
- (35:00) How Omar was able to develop his advisory skills
- (40:30) Spotting opportunities to help save tax or support clients to benefit them and win you work
Resources
Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse
Previous Episode
TTPP91: Is Billing by Time Spent Worse Than Pricing by Value for Tax Services? with Reza Hooda
Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP91
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You’ll Learn
- A bit about Reza and his fist business idea
- (15:30) What are the four pillars of running a successful accountancy and/or tax firm?
- (19:15) The ‘pricing’ pillar – how to price based on value and not time spent, increasing profitability with less effort
- (42:00) Giving different pricing options with tax/accountancy work
- (57:00) A bit about the ‘positioning’ pillar
Resources
Free book link (The Four Pillars): Https://go.rezahooda.com/order-348362211681564311623
Podcast (The Profitable Accountant Podcast): https://www.rezahooda.com/podcasts/the-profitable-accountant-podcast
Next Episode
TTPP93: Ex-CIOT Examiner Shares Insight into the Role and How to Become One with Sam Hart [Tax Role Insights, Ep 5]
Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP93
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You’ll Learn
- About Sam and her career
- (11:15) Starting to talk about the CIOT examiner role, and how examiners are ‘engaged’
- (13:45) The exam writing process
- (18:45) Why Sam decided to become a CIOT/CTA examiner
- 21:30 Is there a better way to assess tax students instead of exams?
- (25:45) Marking exams, managing time here, how pay works for marking, and whether you need to know the full syllabus to be an examiner (how wide does your technical knowledge need to be)
- (29:00) Sam’s advice if you want to become a CIOT examiner and what Sam liked about being an examiner
- (35:00) How your technical tax competence, knowledge and skill is assessed
Resources
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