Experience of working in a Compliance Factory?

Experience of working in a Compliance Factory?

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If you have experience of working, as an employee, in an intensive compliance factory like Crunch or similar, would you mind sharing your experience? What is it like on:

1. Assessing your performance? Do you have to produce and complete X number of accounts and tax returns a day?

2. How many clients do you manage? If not, what is your role?

3. On average, how many clients queries do you get in a day?

4. What do you think of the efficiency of the systems of your employer /ex-employer? How can they be improved?

5. What is staff motivation like? 

The reason  for my post is to learn the good aspects of intensive compliance factories and more importantly, avoid their costly mistakes. 

You do not need address my questions on a point by point basis, please feel free to share your experience in general. 

I am not asking for advice. All I am asking is sharing of compliance factory experience.  

 

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By cheekychappy
24th Sep 2016 12:35

"I am not asking for advice. All I am asking is sharing of compliance factory experience. "

You can't dictate other people's post.

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By Harrison88
26th Sep 2016 09:39

Surely FirstTab can as they posted the topic? If I ask for opinions on which chocolate to use to make cookies it would be a bit pointless if you replied telling me how to make cake.

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By cheekychappy
26th Sep 2016 09:51

Harrison88 wrote:

Surely FirstTab can as they posted the topic? If I ask for opinions on which chocolate to use to make cookies it would be a bit pointless if you replied telling me how to make cake.

No, he can't. He can, however, choose to ignore the posts he doesn't like.

It wouldn't be pointless if I told you how to make cake. Other members may benefit from me posting about cake.

In this case, a member could give advice about the pitfalls of turning a small practice into a compliance factory. Whilst First Tab doesn't want this piece of advice, it is still relevant, and could help others.

If members wish to dictate the answers they receive, they should look to pay someone for their time to receive the specific advice and / or answer they require.

So whilst First Tab is free to try and dictate the responses, others are free to ignore him and continue to post their contribution as they see fit.

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By stepurhan
26th Sep 2016 10:00

Harrison88 wrote:

Surely FirstTab can as they posted the topic? If I ask for opinions on which chocolate to use to make cookies it would be a bit pointless if you replied telling me how to make cake.

Bad analogy.

A better analogy would be if he asked which chocolate to use to make cookies., but specified he only wanted answers about dark chocolates.

Answers saying that milk or white chocolate makes for tastier cookies would be relevant to the question (about chocolate chip cookie making in general). They would also be useful to other users who were just interested in having tasty chocolate chip cookies. Whether the OP wants to ignore such answers is their choice.

Any Answers is about sharing FOR FREE knowledge to the benefit of us all. Anyone wanting responses that are only relevant to them as an individual should be paying for bespoke advice.

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By TheLambtonWorm
26th Sep 2016 10:15

It's not the most polite thing to do - ask someone a favour and then tell them exactly how they have to do it.

My mother in law does this sort of thing all the time.

This one time she wanted a wall painted, and handed me this tiny paint brush and said it would do a better job than the roller I had brought, and that the roller tray I had brought had too much dried paint on it.

I think you can guess what happened next. I was dominated and ended up using the brush. I've never forgiven myself.

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By Harrison88
27th Sep 2016 14:31

Fair enough - AWeb is slightly different from other forums I visit. Questions that are specific may get specific answers (if any). If they are general they will get a mix of replies. You don't tend to get people complaining that the question was too specific as it's a waste of their time replying - the OP just doesn't get any replies.

I personally don't see how complaining about questions benefits anyone. It's meant to be a friendly forum ;)

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By SteveHa
27th Sep 2016 14:41

Mmmmmm. Chocolate cookies & cake.

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By DJKL
27th Sep 2016 15:10

Natural turn in the discussion as I have always understood that certain accountants are very good at particular areas of "cooking"

Either that or everyone has been watching a little too much Bake Off.

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