It’s time to train the organization’s execution muscle.
By Bill Penczak
Behavior will drive the bus off the road.
By Anthony Zecca
Make sure what you’re looking for is what you want.
By Marc Rosenberg
The Rosenberg Practice Management Library
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Live 3-hour Webinar: PPP Loan Forgiveness Choosing the Right Covered Period and Filling Out the Form [Intensive] – Cases and Examples]
With Bradley Burnett
Wednesday, Nov. 11
2 pm ET / 11 am PT
3 hours, 3 CPE
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Objective: To enable the participant to gain a working knowledge of PPP rules and maneuvers through practical working examples
Are you ready to step off the hamster wheel?
By Matt Solomon
The Center for Enlightened Business
This article is the first in our Five Shifts series, which lays out five key shifts you need to take your business away from a high-volume model with long hours and unfulfilling work and toward monthly engagement of $3,000-$15,000 per client with $500+ hourly realization rates and a better quality of life.
SHIFT 1: Stop Depending on Compliance Work
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The idea of reducing your dependence on compliance work may be radical for some accountants and familiar to others.
Compliance work is the main source of income for many accountants, but unfortunately, it’s a high volume, low-profit ballgame. In order to be successful, you need to have flawless execution and massive leverage – if anything is out of place or goes awry, you won’t get the results you’re hoping for.
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It’s never too late to start.
By Ty Hendrickson
Building an accounting practice is not for the faint of heart. You go into this profession because of a love of analyzing numbers and helping others, but to have work to do accountants have to pivot and become salespeople too.
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There are many ways to grow a practice, some being more passive, including utilizing referrals as they come, and some being more outward, including networking and prospecting. The bottom line is that accountants must find a way to bring new clients in the door to keep the doors open.
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Maybe it’s time to part ways.
By Ed Mendlowitz
The CPA Trendlines Practice Doctor
QUESTION: I know that one of my clients needs some extra work done, but they don’t want to pay for it. It is important that this work gets done.
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Do you think I should do it anyway? What is my responsibility?
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84% of your colleagues are.
By Sandi Leyva
Clients have inundated accountants all year with questions and issues about the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), and no end is in sight.
MORE: PPP Client Fraud: How Much Risk Is Too Much? | Survey: Who’s Not Billing for PPP Services?
Earlier this year, it was all about loan acquisition. Now, borrowers are gearing up for loan forgiveness and asking their CPAs for assistance.
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How to foster opportunities.
By Anthony Glomski and Russ Alan Prince
Your $5-Million High-Net-Worth Practice
As part of the Discovery process, you are ascertaining who your wealthy clients can refer to you. In empirical study after study, accountants (as well as other professionals) say that they get most of their client referrals from their current clients. They also say that this happens because they do an excellent job for their clients.
MORE: What the Wealthy Want | The Four-Step Process for Client-Focused Business Development | Building a High-Net-Worth Practice During COVID-19 | The Essential Process for Building a High-Net-Worth Practice | What the Wealthy Need | Setting Financial and Practice Goals During COVID-19 | 4 Components of a High-Net-Worth Practice | Life Insurance as Part of Wealth Management | Mistresses, Mister-esses and Accountants | The Coming Boom in Tax Services for the Super-Rich
Another insight we find in the research is that very few professionals are doing much to foster getting referrals from their highly satisfied clients.
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With John Higgins, CPA Crossings
Friday, Nov. 20, 9 am ET
8 hours, 8 CPE
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The important technology trends that will impact you and your organization.
With John Higgins, CPA Crossings
Monday, Nov. 23, 9 am ET
8 hours, 8 CPE
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You know the phrase: We hear but do we REALLY listen?
By Steven E. Sacks
The NEW Fundamentals
Do you ever find yourself speaking to someone and notice that they are battling you and their iPhone? A quick glance here, a one- or two-word text response there. Unfortunately, it is the new normal – whether in business or in our personal lives.
MORE: Etiquette Never Goes Out of Style | Make Your Presentations Memorable | Have a Real-Life Conversation | Is Your Message Open to Interpretation? | Trust Is a Key Organizational Ingredient | Real Influence Vs. Immediate Gratification
Those of us who encountered different forms of technology tools and platforms during the second half of our careers still believe that effective interpersonal communication still counts for something. Of course, in this era of uncivil discourse, speaking over one another has, too, become the new normal.
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