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CLIENT ACCOUNTING SERVICES

Outlook 2016: Change Catches Up with Auditors

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They say “past results are no indication of future performance.” Maybe. Maybe not. But if anyone should know, it’s our panel of experts, their comments drawn from the new edition of The Rosenberg MAP Survey. These are their bullet points and comments, verbatim, looking back at the last 12 months and looking ahead to 2016. – Rick Telberg, CEO

By Gale Crosley
Crosley Company

Lessons from 2015:

Over the past year, I’ve noticed smaller firms engaged in acquiring firms yet smaller than them. They’ve observed larger firms mastering merger integration, and are now taking the plunge.

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GROWTH STRATEGIES

The 6 Elements to Sustainable Growth for CPA Firms

Hand holding a rising arrow, representing business growth.

The signs that you’re heading in the right direction.

By Gale Crosley
Crosley+Co.

I’ve talked a good deal about sustainable growth lately. And I’m often asked how I know if a firm can achieve it. The answer is to look for the common indicators. It’s relatively easy to know if your firm is growing. But how do you know that the growth you’re experiencing is sustainable? What are the signs that it will last beyond this year?

Firms that are consistent performers demonstrate common elements of sustainable growth. Those elements are integrated seamlessly in the best firms. Here’s what I look for:

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GROWTH STRATEGIES

The 3 Hallmarks of the ‘New Accounting’ Business

News flash – the business model has changed.

By Gale Crosley
Crosley+Co.

When we think of innovation we typically think of a new product or service – something that didn’t exist yesterday that will make tomorrow better. Innovative offerings are essential to the portfolio of any growth-minded CPA firm.

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However, long-term sustainable growth requires a far more comprehensive innovation in your growth model, the strategic blueprint that helps you get from Point A to Point B.

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INNOVATION & CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Jody Padar’s New Vision for the ‘New Accounting’

Jody Padar
Padar

Five ways the new generation of CPAs is changing the profession.

By Gale Crosley
The Radical CPA: New Rules for the Future-Ready Firm

When CPA Jody Padar joined her father in his practice after eight years in a traditional mid-market firm, she assumed that his clients would become theirs. But Jody’s dad had a different idea. He believed his daughter should learn how to build a client base, not just serve an existing one.

The approach may not have been what Jody was expecting, but the experience of seeking out and developing client relationships was formative. In fact, she leveraged it to create New Vision CPA Group in Chicago, which provides complete accounting and tax solutions.

Jody and her firm are part of a movement I’ve dubbed “the New Accounting.”  Although applied differently by individual practitioners, the movement can generally be defined by five characteristics: READ MORE →

GROWTH STRATEGIES

Reality Check: Achieving World-Class Growth Requires Real-World Intelligence

Why you can’t believe your own press clippings.

By Gale Crosley, CPA
Crosley+Co

Ever run a race and immediately sense that you got off to an exceptionally fast start? It’s a good feeling, but if your goal is to beat out the competition there’s really only one way to know for sure how you’re doing. And that’s by marking your progress toward the finish line relative to the other racers.

The same can be said of efforts to grow your firm. To gauge your progress you have to get outside your own four walls and see how you measure up to the competition. READ MORE →

GROWTH STRATEGIES

Crosley: The Three Elements of Growth Strategy

Developing a growth strategy is easy. Getting it right is not.

Gale Crosley, a growth strategist for CPA firms, explains that successful expansion plans require at least three critical elements: (1) identify the right set of services (2) for a needful target market (3) delivered through the appropriate distribution methods.

Sounds simple, right? No.

But, she says, “When you hook a service to a channel to a target, and you get exactly the three digits right, then all of a sudden you pop open the strategy and that’s how you get great growth.”

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GROWTH STRATEGIES

Crosley: Defining the New Business Model

Why you need to ditch your conference table.

Leading-edge CPA firms are developing new growth strategies that are quick to replace slow-growing markets and fading services with new, narrow, fast-growing markets in need of specialized services, according to Gale Crosley, a growth strategy consultant for CPA firms.

“The foundation of the new business model is specialization,” she says.

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