Women in Business Discussion Group Tuesday 25 August 2015 | 5.45pm – 8pm | CPA Centre Level 3, 111 Harrington St

For our August event, we welcome back Peter Knight, of Knight Partners to discuss Benchmarking:  How to use it in a practical way in your business.

In an energetic and engaging discussion Peter will be sharing:

·         What is benchmarking and how it works

·         The benefits of benchmarking and how people use it to improve their business

·         Practical ideas that can be used to help your business

·         How to bring about improvements in performance

·         How it can be applied to all areas of a business

Peter Knight heads up Knight Partners accounting practice, which does tax and accounting but he has more fun working with clients as a business coach.

He does a lot of work with franchises and last year set up the Franchise Accountants Network. This is for accountants who have franchise clients or who work in a franchise and provides tools and resources to help them.

He has recently been guest judge and adjudicator at The Great Debate, where the best students in the MBA program from Melbourne University took on the Australian Graduate School of Management.

He was also recently the guest lecturer in Shanghai at the Symposium of Chinese Accountants, speaking on practice growth, development and branding.

He has also recently spoken at the Malaysian Institute of Accountants, Kuala Lumpur, on practice development, and was the keynote speaker in Singapore last year at the Master Course for Public Practitioners

Peter was a Contributing Author to the Practice Management Manual published by the International Federation of Accountants, of which CPA Australia is a member.

He was also the Lead Author in the recent Practice Management Manual Update commissioned by CPA Australia, as well as being a Contributing Author to the Firm of the Future White Paper.

Peter was one of the founding Partners of Hayes Knight which was established in 1994.  Within 6 years they had offices in each capital city around Australia and two offices in New Zealand, with 38 partners and 350 staff, making them the 25th largest accounting firm in Australia. 

He has been a lecturer and tutor in Advanced Financial Accounting at Macquarie University and is a regular speaker at Conferences, presenting widely throughout Australia and overseas.

Peter is a Former President of CPA Australia (NSW) and is former chairman of the National Board of Public Practice, and he also served on the NSW Public Practice Committee. He is also a National Judge for the prestigious Small Business Awards, and also a judge for the State level awards.

To attend, please RSVP to Reis at cpawibfb@gmail.com or via Facebook by 5pm Friday 21 August 2015.