Four Management Metrics that Fool Even the Best-Run Firms

How looking at realization, billables, utilization, and labor costs can lead you astray.

by Marc Rosenberg, CPA
Author of “What Really Makes CPA Firms Profitable?”

If you’re striving to maximize profitably in your accounting firm (and who isn’t these days?), there a few important things you need to do.

Marc Rosenberg
Marc Rosenberg

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And then there are four things that are just a total waste of time. Like these.