Frustrated by inefficiency? How PKF’s process review team solves problems with annature

At PKF Sydney and Newcastle, we love a game-changer. And efficiency. And things that just work.

Our Process Review Team works with business owners and executives that are:

• Frustrated with the way they and their team are working

• Exhausted by their lack of spare time

• Stuck with inefficiencies they don’t have the time / resources to fix

• Restricted by the information they are not getting

• Missing out on realising the highest level of profitability

• Looking to reduce the reliance of the business on key individuals, that creates major key person risk

• Concerned with the documentation that’s not in place

• Concerned by the consistency and quality that has to be fought for the hard way, rather than coming easily

All of which can make the business less valuable, or un-sellable.

Our Process Review engagements start by asking our clients what makes them go “ugh”.

This viscerally reveals improvement areas and forms the action list we work from:

• Sometimes as simple as practical documentation and operation manuals;

• Sometimes a radical system change;

• More often middle-of-the-road process updates; and, 
• A bunch of quick-win 1%-ers.

Achieving these changes for businesses is why we come to work.

We value the opportunity to promote our clients’ success stories, internally and externally, and we are proud to share the Australia born success story that is Annature.

We at PKF Sydney and Newcastle use (and love!) Annature for our eSigning, and actively recommend it to clients across any industry.

When we moved from old-school paper signing to eSigning long ago, it changed the way we work. When we partnered with Annature, it escalated our work and efficiency to another level.

Determined to fill a gap in the eSigning market, CEO and Founder Corey deals in nothing but good faith and counter-balances the ‘traps’ businesses can find themselves caught up in.

Annature is reasonably priced as pay-as-you-go; there is no leap of faith, no mandatory lock in contracts, seat counts, minimum terms or maximum usage limits.

If you’re ‘trapped’ in another eSigning provider’s contract – Annature is FREE to use until that contract ends; including helping you extract historical documentation from other platforms.

The change management is as minimal as it gets – at PKF, we have no need to extensively train new starters on Annature – unlike the learning curve of most software, Annature is so intuitively built that it’s obvious which are the right buttons to click.

Another bonus is that the Annature team love building new integrations with other industry software platforms – another potential game-changer to the efficiencies your company may be able to achieve.

A quick win in PKF Process Review and Business Advisory engagements is to ask whether you’re using eSigning.

Chasing signatures is one of those insidious “ugh” tasks often not considered, taking way more time than it should.

If you're signing the 'old way' – whether physically printing documents to mail, take to meetings or chase people around the office with; or emailing attachments, which no doubt require chasing to get actioned, to be printed and signed and scanned and emailed back – “ugh”.

With the manual chasing of these documents and then manually uploading, renaming, then refiling, we estimate up to 20 minutes of time-saving per document.

We find the only reason businesses aren’t already using Annature is they don’t know about it yet.

In most organisations, Tech won't save you – it's the blend of the right processes, people, and to automate, streamline and eliminate as much needless admin as possible.

For us, Annature is the tech that blends perfectly with our processes and people.

If you’re interested, in Annature and the many other ways we help business owners and executives get rid of their “ugh” moments – please get in touch.

Stacie Shaw, Partner in Newcastle Business Advisory Services and head of the Process Review Team, has been invited to speak on this very topic at the Accounting and Business Expo on Thursday 13 March 2025 in Sydney. 

If you don’t catch her there and want to know more, please connect with Stacie on LinkedIn, or contact [email protected]