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These 6 Strategies Will Help You Build Your Dream CAS Practice

When it comes to adding accounting advisory services to your firm’s menu of offerings, there are a lot of resources available that will tell you to do this or do that. In fact, a quick Google search returns more than 81 million results for the...

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Should Your Firm Charge for Initial Assessment? The Pros & Cons

Are you charging potential clients for initial assessments? If not, your firm may be burning money—and missing out on the chance to filter the type...

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Avoid These 7 Common Pitfalls in Accounting Automation

In a detail-oriented profession like accounting, it can be difficult to transition to a more hands-off approach after you’ve been responsible for all...

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4 Common Pitfalls in Advisory (and How To Avoid Them)

Believe it or not, there’s a lot accountants can learn from professional sports. Take the Olympic steeplechase event in track and field — at the...

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Selling CAS in 2021: Your First Steps Toward Big Results

The accounting industry is changing, and with it comes a change to how accounting firms service their clients. For instance, in Sage’s "The Practice...

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Still Confused About How AI Helps Accountants? This Article Will Help

We live in an amazing age where seemingly every problem can be fixed by a specific tool or piece of technology. You missed the golf ball and created...

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Planning to Sell Your Accounting Firm? Start Here, and Start Today

Regardless of if you’ve decided that a sale is your end goal, you should be running your firm like you’re going to sell it tomorrow. We don’t say...

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CAS Meaning and how it Determines Your Growth Strategy

Can you imagine a world without acronyms? Communication would without a doubt be more of a chore, and it would take longer, too. Indeed, acronyms are...

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A 360º Data View Will Transform Your Firm into a Super Force

The role of accounting professionals has been in constant evolution for decades. Traditionally, accountants and CPAs were relegated to the books and...

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Accounting Firm Growth Depends on the Ability to Segment Your Audience

Whenever your accounting firm is looking for growth, it essentially has two options. Option one is to look for the same kind of client you’re already...

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How Better Results Are Tied to Process Improvement with Chris Barnes

Until last year, every tax season was virtually the same as the year before, which meant that firms could get by doing the same ol’ thing to get the...

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Overcoming Agile Software Development Struggles | Botkeeper Insights

As a company that straddles two essential industries—accounting and technology—we have a unique opportunity to share our views and strategies as they...

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Pilot's $100m Funding: What it Means for the Accounting Profession

The field of competition for accounting firms just got a bit more interesting, and not in a good way.

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