Why Merging in Smaller Firms Is Fabulous

Businesspeople having a meeting over coffee sitting together at a table discussing a document, young man and two middle-aged women presentEleven reasons to do it.

By Marc Rosenberg
CPA Firm Mergers: Your Complete Guide

If an opportunity to merge in an attractive smaller firm was presented to you, would you be interested in pursuing it?

My guess is that at least 90 percent of all CPA firms would answer this question with a resounding yes! (And a healthy percentage of the remaining 10 percent perform at such high levels that they cannot conceive of merging in a smaller firm whose performance falls well below their own high standards.)

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Why is this? The short answer is that it’s a great deal, both financially and operationally. It’s an almost can’t-lose proposition, as long as you do it right.