Course Details

A well-built app stack doesn’t just look tidy — it makes delivery calmer, faster, and more profitable. In this course, Lara Manton shows accountants and bookkeepers how to assess a client’s finance stack as a complete workflow (apps, integrations, roles, and rules), so you can reduce rework, strengthen the audit trail, and improve the client experience. You’ll leave with a simple model you can apply immediately: identify the bottleneck, protect the “single source of truth,” and choose the next best improvement that saves time for you and creates clearer, more confident numbers for your client.

 

In this session Lara Manton covers the following topics:

  • A simple way to audit any client’s app stack (fast, practical, repeatable)  
  • The “single source of truth” principle: keeping clean data and reliable reporting  
  • The 5 layers of a strong finance stack (capture, approvals, accounting, pay/collect, reporting)  
  • Integration quality + common red flags (where good apps go wrong in real life)  
  • How to choose and implement the next best improvement without disrupting delivery

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LJM Bookkeeping Ltd

Lara Manton

Lara Manton is the founder of LJM Bookkeeping Ltd and ACE-XL, with over a decade of experience transforming financial operations for service-based businesses. Her innovative approach has earned prestigious recognition including Xero's Innovative Partner of the Year 2023, ICB's Small Practice of the Year 2021, and Xero's Small Practice of the Year 2024 - making her the first UK bookkeeper to achieve this honour. Named among the Top 50 Women in Accounting (2023 & 2024), Lara has received multiple Accounting Excellence nominations, including Highly Commended for Bookkeeping Team of the Year 2023 and Digital Transformation of the Year 2024. Alongside sitting on the ICB’s main advisory council, she chairs their Tech Advisory Council and collaborates with software providers on product development. Having grown her practice to six-figure turnover, Lara specialises in comprehensive finance functions and strategic software implementation, helping businesses scale through optimized financial systems and cutting-edge technology solutions.