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Three Ways to Evaluate Firm Culture

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By Martin Bissett
Passport to Partnership

This second C is a stormy and choppy one, often fraught with political icebergs but navigated diplomatically and with maturity, will lead you through.

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Case Study on Culture

Deborah had done well. She was bridging the firm’s culture gap and fulfilling its desire to be seen as an equal opportunities employer by becoming the practice’s standout rising star.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Jeff Seibert: Digits Software Moves Toward Real-Time Accounting | The Disruptors

Dovetailing finance and product engineering can transform accounting.
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The Disruptors
With Liz Farr
For CPA Trendlines 

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When Jeff Seibert, CEO and founder of Digits, was at Twitter, he was astonished by the difference in data quality and timeliness between the product engineering and the finance sides of the business.

On the product engineering side, testing tools, dashboards, and analytic tools provided real-time data on “exactly what your users are clicking on, what your servers are doing every second.” At the same time, “I was waiting two to three weeks for our accountant to give me a black and white P&L,” he recalls, even with “100 people in corporate finance.”

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That experience led him to start Digits in 2018, an AI-native accounting platform, which is going “head to head with QuickBooks and Xero.”

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MARKETING & SALES

How to Suggest More Services for More Pay

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BONUS: Four sample engagement proposals.

By Ed Mendlowitz
The CPA Trendlines Practice Doctor

In order to help clients work out their problems, we need to give them suggestions and we need to charge the clients an appropriate fee.

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No matter how you price or bill for your services you will be spending time helping them and during that period you will be drawing on your vast experience, knowledge and data base of the client’s affairs.
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GROWTH STRATEGIES

Five Key Ingredients to Growth

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The difference between the disruptor and the disrupted.

By Domenick J. Esposito
8 Steps to Great

I was recently asked, “Why is growth important?”

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My short answer was that it comes down to perspective – do you want your firm to be relevant and be a disruptor or do you want your firm to be irrelevant and be disrupted because, without growth, your firm will certainly be the latter.
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LEADERSHIP

At ENGAGE 2026, a Profession Richer and Less Certain Than Ever

On the agenda: Consolidation, ethics, AI, and talent.

By CPA Trendlines

The CPA profession arrives at its biggest annual gathering this month, carrying two truths that refuse to sit comfortably together: It has never been worth more money. And it has never been less sure of what it is becoming.

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AICPA and CIMA convene ENGAGE 2026 at the ARIA in Las Vegas, June 8 through 11 and the 10th-anniversary theme — “The Next Wave: A Decade of Possibility Starts Now” — markets the milestone while signaling the unease beneath it.

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