Lara and the ACE-XL community have been featured across the accounting and bookkeeping press, sharing practical insights on automation, practice growth, and the real-world challenges (and wins) that come with running a modern business.

Your finance department is the foundation of your business. It's where all your critical data lives, where decisions are made, and where your business health is monitored. But when your financial system operates in isolation, you're missing out on massive growth potential.

As your business scales, there's a dangerous trap that catches even the most capable CFOs and finance leaders: becoming the bottleneck. Every approval flows through you. Every financial decision waits for your sign-off. Every report needs your personal touch. You tell yourself you're maintaining control, ensuring quality, protecting the business. But the truth is your need for control is actually putting your business at risk.

The landscape of business is fast paced and with all of the latest technology advancing so quickly it can be easy to get left behind. That means you may be working with outdated systems and old processes.

Let's have an honest conversation about something that might be quietly draining your business's potential – your outdated financial systems. You know what I'm talking about – those spreadsheets you've been using forever, the manual data entry that eats up your evenings, and those moments when you realise different parts of your business just aren't talking to each other.

Modern technology has revolutionised the world of bookkeeping. By embracing automation at LJM Bookkeeping and ACE-XL we help businesses save time, reduce errors, and streamline processes.