During the opening keynote session of QuickBooks Connect, Rich Preece, Vice President of Intuit’s Accountant Segment announced that this year's winner of the Firm of the Future was Canada's AIS Solutions and Kninja Knetwork.
Preece told the accountants, bookkeepers, business consultants and QuickBooks ProAdvisors present that “AIS Solutions and Kninja is a leader showcasing expertise in all areas – from their modern marketing presence to leveraging the cloud and becoming trusted advisors to their clients – and we couldn’t be more excited to see how integrating these technologies has transformed their practice.”
Juliet Aurora and Steve Loates operate AIS Solutions which was founded in 2000 and first operated out of Juliet's bedroom. AIS Solutions provides bookkeeping and accounting services committed to providing strategic direction and business development for their clients.
While cloud technology plays a big role in their business today, they actually recognized the opportunity to provide better service and support for their clients, so in 2010, before 'cloud' was became popular they launched AIS Cloud to provide remote cloud accounting and bookkeeping for their expanding client base. Today they are aiming for 100% QuickBooks Online client penetration by January of 2018.
Shortly after returning to Burlington (Canada) from QuickBooks Connect in 2014, the couple formed Kninja Knetwork which is a membership community that provides tools and resources to build the practices of bookkeepers. And Kninja fits right into their overall theme because AIS and Kninja are both dedicated to providing client education as the key component of their services in order to insure the best possible result for their clients.
Be on the look-out for future articles featuring AIS Solutions and Kninja Knetwork, this is definitely a couple that you need to not only hear more about, but more from, when it comes to their perspectives on achieving 'excellence' for their clients.
Insightful Accountant would like to extend our most hearty congratulations to these great winners who so evidence the 'right stuff' that makes a firm truly a great firm and a clear Firm of the Future.