EP208: Andrew Royer - What You Need To Know About Running A Successful Business

Michael Palmer: When I started the firm, I had this dream of being able to help our clients' businesses grow and become more profitable. And I didn't really have a clear direction on how to do that. And so that's been part of just figuring out who we are and then, and figuring out who our ideal clients are. So we're working with these businesses that really want to grow and see the value in the consultation and learning how to grow. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back. Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a good one. Our returning guest is the owner of Royer Accounting based out in British Columbia, Canada. Andrew Royer, welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for having me here, Michael. Glad to be back. It's great to have you. And Andrew, we're going to do something today where we're going to, we're going to take a deep dive into your business journey and look at it in stages. Are you game? I'm game. Let's do it. Let's do it. So you've been on the podcast before, but let's help our listener understand what did your career and life look like before you started your business?

Andrew Royer: Yeah, so I went down— it's a bit of a long story. So I, I started off, uh, I've always wanted to run my own business, and I tried to get the courage by talking to other people, and those other people convinced me to go down the career path first. I was interested in computers, so I ended up doing software development for about 13 years and ended up writing accounting software. I remember in school thinking, taking one of my accounting courses thinking if I wasn't gonna be a software developer, I could see myself doing this. And then so around 2008, when the markets dropped, I didn't have my degree. I decided to go back and get my, to get a degree and I decided to try something different. So I went into, decided to go into accounting And then thankfully ended up at the largest accounting firm in Canada, which is a great place to learn accounting for sure. And I loved it. I loved it there. So that's how like my career started going down that path. But then, you