Let people at all levels show their strengths.
By Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk
Bridging the Gap
Firmwide initiatives that bridge generations aren’t limited to process refinements and Lean-style efficiency efforts. Dramatic changes in marketing have accompanied the digital revolution, and today’s most successful firms are embracing their new opportunities. Marketing is yet another avenue for bringing together old and young firm members and enhancing mutual understanding as everyone works to benefit the firm’s growth.
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Marketing in the accounting industry has an interesting, and fairly short, history. It is not unusual to find partners who still remember when it was against AICPA rules to advertise, market, directly solicit or even participate in competitive bidding. Virtually non-existent for most of the 20th century, accounting marketing has evolved at a rather slow pace even since the rules were changed with the Bates ruling in 1978.
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