What Really Makes CPA Firms Profitable?

What Really Makes CPA Firms Profitable?
Author: Marc Rosenberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2012-04-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781453832219

This monograph summarizes dozens of high-impact techniques to maximize firm profitability. Based on Marc Rosenberg's experiences with over 700 CPA firms across the country, this monograph focuses on highly effective techniques practiced by North America's most successful firms.

Leading An Accounting Firm

Leading An Accounting Firm
Author: Troy Waugh
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0870519972

The secret ingredient to any successful firm is great leadership. Fortunately, this new book demonstrates that great leadership skills can be nurtured and learned. Using the model of the pyramid to illustrate his concept, author Troy Waugh builds a case for ongoing leadership development, guiding you through the essential ideas and practices that are at the core of great leadership and great firms. Using this powerful framework, you can improve your personal leadership and build great leaders around you. Developed specifically for CPA firm leaders, it covers the full spectrum of leadership development, including: Leading Self Leading Staff Leading Strategy Leading Systems Leading Synergy Plus, you’ll hear from more than 40 of the profession’s top leaders. Recognizing the multitude of approaches to leadership, Waugh reached out to colleagues in some of the most well-led firms in the profession and asked them to share their leadership experience and philosophies.

CPA Firm Mergers and Acquisitions

CPA Firm Mergers and Acquisitions
Author: Joel L. Sinkin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-11-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 194023512X

Chances are you’re looking to buy, sell, or merge your CPA firm. Owners at firms of all sizes are seeking solutions to fund retirements or grow their practices. And, CPA firm M&A activity is only going to increase in the coming years—new deals are announced almost daily. Fortunately, there are steps you can take right now to position you and your firm for success. Written with both buyers and sellers in mind, this comprehensive resource aims to ensure that both parties to a transaction achieve their goals. Authors and transition experts Joel Sinkin and Terrence Putney demonstrate that it is possible to arrive at a reasonable deal where retiring partners are paid a satisfying price for the practice they’ve built, remaining partners make more than they did before, and new owners take on a practice that is poised for continuing success and potential growth. Sinkin and Putney share their best advice on how to: Determine your firm’s value, Get to know your potential partner in a deal, Select a successor your clients will love, Structure alternative deals, Avoid roadblocks, Prepare a practice continuation agreement, Perform due diligence, Execute a win-win deal, and Time and plan for your transition. Each chapter concludes with an Action Agenda to help spur your planning. Plus, it includes a collection of practical tools to assist you through the process of buying, selling, or merging, including practice summary tools, an annual succession planning checklist, sample practice continuation agreement, sample client announcements, due diligence tools, and sample transition letters.

Strategic Connections

Strategic Connections
Author: Anne Baber
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2015-01-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814434975

Unveiling eight indispensable competencies for the new Network-Oriented Workforce, Strategic Connections provides practical advice anyone can use for building better, more productive business relationships. Smartphones, social media, and the Internet can only get a professional so far. At some point, the success of an organization will depend on face-to-face relationships, which means the isolated employees trying to do everything virtually will at some point have to fall back on the tried-and-true, essential skill of relationship building if they are going to survive in today’s increasingly collaborative workforce. You will discover how to: Commit to a positive, proactive networking mindset Earn trust Boost their social acumen and increase their likeability Master conversational skills and deepen interactions Employ storytelling to make communications memorable Businesses don’t have to look very far to find employees with a strong presence in the different social networks. If you want to stand out and make yourself invaluable to your organization, focus on making your presence known in the company’s physical networks.

Essentials of Accounts Payable

Essentials of Accounts Payable
Author: Mary S. Schaeffer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2002-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471272809

ESSENTIALS OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-worldexamples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concisepaperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking,strategies, developments, and technologies in accountspayable. "A real-world approach, with great insights and practical wisdom onall aspects of the accounts payable process. Essentials of AccountsPayable provides accounts payable professionals with a frameworkfor action in a rapidly changing environment." -Tom Nichols, Division Manager, Accounts Payable Operations,AT&T "Mary Schaeffer has combined her considerable knowledge of theaccounts payable process with the learning and benchmark statisticsfrom top companies to produce a world-class guide to the APprocess. Without Mary Schaeffer, and IOMA, AP would still be aneglected financial process without any formal reading to explainthe complexities of a process that most companies think is simplypaying the bills. This book is a must-read for anyone working in,directing, or managing AP operations, both seasoned professionalsand those new to the process." -Linda Sawyer Sisko, Programs Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc. "This book does an excellent job of explaining the oftencomplicated basics of the accounts payable functions. It provides aquick snapshot for busy executives who need to know how an accountspayable department should run. It is an excellent update for thoseexecutives who need to keep up to date on numerous issues thataffect this rapidly evolving profession." -Adrienne Glasgow, Chief Financial Officer, American Red Cross inGreater New York The Wiley Essentials Series-because the business world is alwayschanging...and so should you.

The Role of the Managing Partner: the Definitive Guide to CPA Firm Leadership

The Role of the Managing Partner: the Definitive Guide to CPA Firm Leadership
Author: Kristen Rampe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre:
ISBN:

The biggest factor in achieving organizational success is strong management and leadership. In CPA firms, this is the role of the Managing Partner. Want to know how the best MPs across the country are impacting their firms and how you can be a difference-maker and a better MP? Look no further than Marc Rosenberg's latest book, The Role of the Managing Partner: The Definitive Guide to CPA Firm Leadership. The only CPA-firm-specific resource with blueprints for Managing Partner success on topics including partner accountability, profitability, working on the business (and staying out of the weeds), and evaluating the MP.

At the Crossroads

At the Crossroads
Author: Gale Crosley, CPA
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008-06-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470262222

If you'd like to know how to change your underachieving firm, At The Crossroads: The Remarkable CPA Firm That Nearly Crashed, Then Soared may hold the key to a bright new future. This innovative book is told in story form, drawing the reader behind the scenes of a dysfunctional team that applies Crosley?s Practice Growth Model to overcome the defects to produce a highly functional team.

The Why and How of Auditing

The Why and How of Auditing
Author: Charles Hall
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578519739

This book assists auditors in planning, performing, and completing audit engagements. It is designed to make auditing more easily understandable.