The Accounting Profit Blueprint 2026
Double Your Accounting Practice Profits Within 12 Months
A practical playbook for accounting firms that want greater profit, better systems, stronger pricing and genuine advisory growth.
Nine contributers
Eighteen practical chapters
Foreword by Paul Dunn
Practical. Commercial. Actionable
Most accounting firms do not have a workload problem.
They have a profit problem.
Most accounting firms are not underperforming. They are overworked, underpriced and structurally wrong.
More effort is not the answer. Better pricing, better systems and better decisions are.
Compliance is becoming increasingly commoditised, yet many firms continue to operate as if it is not. They take on more clients, complete more work and work longer hours without achieving the profit or business value they should.
The Accounting Profit Blueprint 2026 challenges how you price, who you serve and what you sell. It identifies where profit is being lost and presents practical ideas accounting firms can implement over the next 12 months.
For many practices, there is a genuine opportunity to double profits without adding more clients or working longer hours.
What will you learn
The book explores how accounting practices can:
Improve pricing and profitability
Build better systems and processes
Move beyond compliance
Use technology and AI effectively
Create greater value for clients
Select and retain the right clients
Improve team performance and capacity
Develop higher-value advisory services
Strengthen their market position
Build a more valuable and sustainable firm
This is not a theoretical textbook. It is a practical playbook written by people who understand the Australian accounting industry.
Nine experts. Eighteen practical chapters
Published by TaxFitness, the book brings together nine experienced accounting and business professionals. Each contributor has written two chapters based on their specialist knowledge and practical experience.
Kyelie Baxter
Managing Director, IQ Accountants
Specialises in practice growth, tax planning, and implementing cloud accounting solutions for small businesses and accounting practices.
Toni Eisenhut
Founder, Your Business Confidante
Operating model redesign for accounting & advisory firms under pressure.
Richard Francis
Founder and CEO, Spotlight Reporting
Expert in cloud-based financial reporting, performance forecasting, and business intelligence for accounting firms and CFOs.
Amanda Gascoigne
Founder, Amanda Gascoigne Consulting
Specialises in practice coaching, work-life balance, and firm management strategies tailored for sole practitioners and small-to-medium accounting firm owners.
Darren Gleeson
Founder and CEO, TaxFitness and Success Tax Professionals
Accounting practice development, tax planning, benchmarking, and higher-value client services.
Amy Holdsworth
Founder and Director, Clarity Street
Focuses on cloud technology implementation, app stack integration, and process automation for accounting and bookkeeping practices.
Taryn Holman
Director, Seamless SMSF
With our team of experts supporting you, you may Instantly scale your business without any of the headaches.
Monique Parker
Award-winning marketer and Founder, AccountanXy
Marketing, positioning, and growth strategies developed specifically for accounting firms.
Melissa Voss
Co-Founder, Practice +
Specialises in firm transformation, client engagement workflows, and community building within the accounting industry.
Foreword by Paul Dunn
Paul Dunn is a four-time TEDx speaker, entrepreneur and one of the most influential thinkers on purpose-driven business.
He is the co-founder of B1G1 and previously founded Results Corporation and Results Accountants’ Systems, helping transform how accountants create and communicate value.
In his foreword, Paul explains why the firms that succeed will operate with intention, making deliberate decisions about their clients, services, pricing, value and impact.
“Our attitude determines our altitude”