Episode 57

What Recent Fintech Acquisitions Say About What Is Valuable in a Business

Episode 57. In today's news episode, "What Recent Fintech Acquisitions Say About What Is Valuable in a Business."

Key takeaways from this episode include:

✓ Getting behind the Sage purchase of GoProposal to analyse exactly what they've bought

✓ How the sale value of an accounting firm is different to what is being bought right now

✓ What the owner avatar and personal evangelist angle brings to a company valuation

✓ The four key aspects of what Sage have invested in with this recent acquisition

✓ Asking what an accountancy practice needs to have to attract a high multiple on sale

✓ Rethinking the accounting firm selling and exit model from what used to be valuable

✓ Comparing Sage/GoProposal with Intuit/Mailchimp in asking what people are really paying for

✓ Why accounting advisors need to know how deals are put together and what affects selling price for their business clients

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Accounting Voices helps people in the accounting world stay relevant visible and vocal. Host Rob Brown interprets trends reshaping the profession and gives listeners insight to build authority influence and a stronger voice in firms and markets.

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Rob Brown

Rob Brown is the founder and host of the Accounting Voices Podcast, the flagship solo show of the Accounting Voices Network. Each episode offers sharp analysis and commentary on the trends, ideas and people shaping the global accounting profession.

Through this Accounting Voices Podcast, Rob helps accounting firm leaders, decision makers and professionals stay relevant and make sense of disruption in areas like AI, automation, M&A, private equity and soft skills beyond the tech. His perspective blends clarity, insight and curiosity, making complex issues relevant and practical for professionals and decision makers across accounting and finance.

He also leads two monthly panel shows, Accounting M&A and Accounting AI, which bring together senior voices to explore consolidation, strategy and the impact of technology on firms and people.

Rob is the author of the bestselling book Build Your Reputation (Wiley) and a TEDx speaker whose talk The Personal Brand of You has more than 400,000 views. Over his career he has hosted and moderated more than 1,000 conversations with accounting and fintech leaders worldwide.

Based in Nottingham UK, Rob is a stroke survivor living with epilepsy, a black belt in kickboxing, a decent chess player and an average player of four musical instruments.