Jody Padar, Author at CPA Trendlines

Padar Joins Botkeeper as VP Strategy

Artificial intelligence software developer lands “The Radical CPA.”

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Jody Padar, a CPA Trendlines expert author and one of the most influential people in the profession, is joining Botkeeper as vice president of strategy, charged with bringing the artificial-intelligence-based accounting software developer closer to the accounting profession.

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Padar is a leader in the transition of next-generation public accounting firms through open collaboration and change management. She is the author of The Radical CPA and From Success to Significance: The Radical CPA Guide.

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Radical CPA Jody Padar Partners with Marketing by Numbers

New video service for accounting firms.

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CPA Trendlines expert contributor Jody Padar, CPA, MST, principal of New Vision CPA Group and founder of The Radical CPA, is partnering with Marketing by Numbers, a new video marketing service for accounting firms.

Click to see Jody’s video: Nine Year-End Tax Strategies

With the partnership, The Radical CPA will leverage the Marketing by Numbers video service and platform to further educate accounting firms and CPAs on using technology to grow their firms more efficiently. READ MORE →

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Get Comfortable with Selling

But first, define the result.

By Jody Padar
From Success to Significance: The Radical CPA Guide

We need to sell something other than time.

MORE ON RADICALISM: Why Time and Billing Is Over | Quick Tip: 7 Ways to Add Value and Charge for It | How Timesheets Stymie Teams | Eric Majchrzak: Taking Risks with Marketing | Four Rules for Setting Boundaries in a Social and Mobile World | Blockchain: The Basics
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We need to sell an outcome. We need to sell a result. We don’t need to sell time anymore.
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Why Time and Billing Is Over

Measure outputs, not hours.

By Jody Padar
From Success to Significance: The Radical CPA Guide

I know you must be tired of me saying this.

MORE ON RADICALISM: Quick Tip: 7 Ways to Add Value and Charge for It | Profits: New Firms, New Measures | When Staffers Meet Clients | Selling Product, not Hours | Maximizing Social Media: The Importance of People | What Are AI and Bots? | True Diversity Means Creating Equity | Creating More Diversity in Accounting Firm Leadership
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But the real reason why I’m able to take on more and focus my energy on expansion is because utilization isn’t relevant to my firm.
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7 Ways to Add Value and Charge for It

“This is the hardest for CPAs…”

By Jody Padar
From Success to Significance: The Radical CPA Guide

First: Create accountability. Follow up. Ask a question to a business owner, give them a deadline and then call them out on the follow-through.

MORE ON RADICALISM: Profits: New Firms, New Measures | DeLeon & Stang Launches ‘Anticipatory Organization’ Model | How Timesheets Kill Teamwork | Top 20 Social Media Hacks to Build Your Business
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This is Coaching 101. Did they do what they said they were going to do? Most small business owners have no one to report to, and they appreciate you taking an interest.

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Profits: New Firms, New Measures

Easing the power struggle between succession and partner compensation.

By Jody Padar
From Success to Significance: The Radical CPA Guide

I’m going to address the elephant in the room. Ready? It’s succession and how it relates to partner compensation.

MORE ON RADICALISM: DeLeon & Stang Launches ‘Anticipatory Organization’ Model | How Timesheets Stymie Teams | Eric Majchrzak: Taking Risks with Marketing | Four Rules for Setting Boundaries in a Social and Mobile World | Blockchain: The Basics
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I can give you many reasons why time and billing is no longer relevant. I can give you the reasons why customers want fixed or value-based prices.
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DeLeon & Stang Launches ‘Anticipatory Organization’ Model

When transactions post automatically, what will accountants do?

By Jody Padar
From Success to Significance: The Radical CPA Guide

Al DeLeon, founding partner of DeLeon & Stang in Virginia and Maryland, has introduced the Anticipatory Organization model to the firm.

MORE ON RADICALISM: How Timesheets Stymie Teams | When Staffers Meet Clients | Selling Product, not Hours | Maximizing Social Media: The Importance of People | What Are AI and Bots? | True Diversity Means Creating Equity | Creating More Diversity in Accounting Firm Leadership | Accodex Sets Up a Platform for Practice Management | Product Management: Start with These 6 Steps
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What does that mean exactly?

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How Timesheets Stymie Teams

“When you aren’t tracking the minutes, your team can learn to lead itself.”

By Jody Padar
From Success to Significance: The Radical CPA Guide

Where is ownership and leadership in the old-school model?

Uh, nowhere?

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Is that why everyone is complaining there is no one left to take over our firms anymore? Whose fault is that?
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Jody Padar, CPA, MST, is one of the profession’s foremost visionaries and a best-selling author for CPA Trendlines.

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Padar is the author of:

The Radical CPA

and

From Success to Significance: The Radical CPA Guide

vice president of strategy at Botkeeper, an upstart automated bookkeeping solution purpose-built for accounting firms.

She was also CEO and Principal of the New Vision CPA Group, a public accounting firm based in the Chicago area.

And as an author, lecturer, coach, consultant, and mentor, she advocates for progress and innovation in the profession, heralding a new way of thinking about the practice of accountancy and giving it a new purpose.

Having successfully transformed her own firm into a technologically advanced, paperless work environment, she is now dedicated to educating her fellow colleagues on how to make the same transition.

She is a regular contributor to a number of industry publications, including CPA Trendlines, where she offers practical tips and advice on running a next-generation firm.

Padar has been named by Accounting Today as “the Top 100 Most Influential to the Profession” for the last four years and manages her firm and discover new “best practices.”

Padar is married, has two teenage children, and swims competitively. Padar earned her BBA from Saint Mary’s College and MST from Northern Illinois University. Padar is also an adjunct professor at Oakton Community College and a contributing member of the Intuit Trainer Writer Network.

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