The Power of 100 1% Improvements | Gareth Burton

Today I’m bringing you an interview as part of a series of interviews I conducted at the Accountants BootCamp which was held in late April ’23. I had the unique and rare opportunity to interview a few award-winning UK accountants who travelled to Australia to attend the event.

For this episode, I’m joined by Gareth Burton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gareth-burton/ ) the founder of two businesses, the first one is Assure UK which niches in the UK Pension market where they are Specialist Pension Scheme Auditors, and provides Assurance Reports for Independent Trustees, Master Trusts, Pension Scheme Administrators and other Service Organisations. While working in this field he recognised these professional practices were not being served appropriately by their accountants, and he drilled down into offering a double-niched service, via his second business Progress Accountants: Accountants for forward-thinking professional practices with more than three employees.

Summary of the episode:

• Why Gareth Burton decided to start two firms.
• The 100 1% improvements in 100 days.
• Why Gareth decided to start his own accountancy firm.
• The 100 1% improvement.
• The technology used in that business: Xero, Dext, Microsoft…