Five typical secrets

Despite the title of this blog and all of the postings I have made to date, this is the first time I have just listed five typical secrets:

1. Accountants don't know all the answers - even when they pretend that they do;
2. They will promise to give you good business advice but much as they might mean this when they say it, they never have the time;
3. When they promise 'no fee surprises' it's more of a hope than because they have a reliable system to prevent it happening;
4. You know how helpful it would be to your business for your accountant to introduce you to prospective clients? Your accountant would love you to recommend him/her too but doesn't know how to ask you without sounding desperate;
5. Unless the annual fees you pay put you in the top 20% of your accountant's clients, you will not get priority treatment.
   

Of course not all accountants share these five secrets. But quite a lot of them do. If you've found one who doesn't, you've done well.