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| content for accounting firms: Strategic Connections Anne Baber, Lynne Waymon, Andre Alphonso, Jim Wylde, 2015-01-07 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. |
| content for accounting firms: The Definitive Guide to Client Accounting Services Hitendra Patil, 2021 |
| content for accounting firms: Implementing Value Pricing Ronald J. Baker, 2010-11-29 Praise for IMPLEMENTING VALUE PRICING A Radical Business Model for Professional Firms Ron Baker is the most prolific and best writer when it comes to pricing services. This is a must-read for executives and partners in small to large firms. Ron provides the basics, the advanced ideas, the workbooks, the case studies everything. This is a must-have and a terrific book. Reed K. Holden founder and CEO, Holden Advisors, Corp., Associate Professor, Columbia University www.holdenadvisors.com We've known through Ron Baker's earlier books that he's not just an extraordinary thinker and truly brilliant writer he's a mover and a shaker on a mission. This is the End of Time! Brilliant. Paul Dunn Chairman, B1G1® www.b1g1.com Implementing Value Pricing is a powerful blend of theory, strategy, and tactics. Ron Baker's most recent offering is ambitious in scope, exploring topics that include economic theory, customer orientation, value identification, service positioning, and pricing strategy. He weaves all of them together seamlessly, and includes numerous examples to illustrate his primary points. I have applied the knowledge I've gained from his body of work, and the benefits to me and to my customers have been immediate, significant, and ongoing. Brent Uren Principal, Valuation & Business Modeling Ernst & Young® www.ey.com Ron Baker is a revolutionary. He is on a radical crusade to align the interests of service providers with those of their customers by having lawyers, accountants, and consultants charge based on the value they provide, rather than the effort it takes. Implementing Value Pricing is a manifesto that establishes a clear case for the revolution. It provides detailed guidance that includes not only strategies and tactics, but key predictive indicators for success. It is richly illustrated by the successes of firms that have embraced value-based pricing to make their services not only more cost-effective for their customers, but more profitable as well. The hallmark of a manifesto is an unyielding sense of purpose and a call to action. Let the revolution begin. Robert G. Cross, Chairman and CEO, Revenue Analytics, Inc. Author, Revenue Management: Hard-Core Tactics for Market Domination |
| content for accounting firms: 101 Marketing Strategies for Accounting, Law, Consulting, and Professional Services Firms Troy Waugh, 2004-04-26 Troy Waugh—'the rainmakers' rainmaker'—has provided a well-designed blueprint for selling professional services that skillfully draws upon his more than thirty years in the field. This practical, highly focused guide to the selling process can help our firms achieve sales successes measured not only by effort but also by bottom-line results. —Howard B. Allenberg, vice chairman and CIO, BDO Seidman, LLP Finally, peerless focus on how to break into all aspects of the selling process and the currents of relationship and buyer development. Learn how to build your personal and firm business more successfully. Covers the process of relationship and buyer development. Provides proven strategies from hundreds of the world's successful firms. Order your copy today! |
| content for accounting firms: Leading An Accounting Firm Troy Waugh, 2017-05-15 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. |
| content for accounting firms: The New Fundamentals Steven Sacks, 2020 |
| content for accounting firms: Profit First Mike Michalowicz, 2017-02-21 Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability. Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. Using Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that: · Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances. · A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line. · Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth. With dozens of case studies, practical, step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humor, Michalowicz has the game-changing roadmap for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of. |
| content for accounting firms: Accountant's Flight Plan Brannon Poe, 2010-08-15 Business strategy book for certified public accountants (CPA). A compilation of practical, time-tested tactics for operating a successful public accounting firm. |
| content for accounting firms: Introduction to Business Lawrence J. Gitman, Carl McDaniel, Amit Shah, Monique Reece, Linda Koffel, Bethann Talsma, James C. Hyatt, 2024-09-16 Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
| content for accounting firms: The Intentional Accountant M. Darren Root, 2014-05-09 Empowering bean counters to become better entrepreneurs is what The Intentional Accountant is all about. M. Darren Root, one of the accounting profession's most highly esteemed thought leaders, co-author of The E-Myth Accountant, and executive editor of CPA Practice Advisor magazine, maps out a vision for independent accountants to go beyond merely working at a job and start assembling the machinery to build a true enterprise. His newest book is a practical, end-to-end roadmap of the strategic process and organizational methods that have changed the lives and personal fortunes of thousands of practitioners and shareholders in accounting firms nationwide. |
| content for accounting firms: Ultimate Guide to Search Engine Optimization: Drive Traffic, Boost Conversion Rates and Make Lots of Money Jon Rognerud, 2008-03-13 Turn Your Website into A Marketing Powerhouse! Author and search engine optimization (SEO) expert, Jon Rognerud unlocks the mystery of SEO and removes the fears of intimidating technology with this step-by-step guide to building a fully optimized web site and a successful, traffic-driving SEO campaign. Begin by learning how to lay the foundation of your SEO campaign, from building your web site to identifying your market and creating web-savvy content. Next, master the implementation of SEO tools and tactics, including keyword research, linking, and submitting to search engines. Then learn how to apply proven strategies, including using social media, pay-per-click, paid advertising, landing page conversions and much more. This is your guide to gaining exposure and creating a buzz big enough to put a lot of money in your pocket! Learn how to: Create an attractive website with SEO-enriched content Choose the right keywords and create an effective seed list Use effective tools to identify and attract quality traffic Safeguard your site from becoming spam Use cutting-edge tactics to gain exposure and land on page 1 of Google Create relationships with other sites through linking Use social media sites within your online marketing plan Turn traffic into sales Everything you ever needed to build a website and get results is right here-all in one place! |
| content for accounting firms: Marketing for Accountants Barry Crockford, 2003 Written in an easy to read style, this book uniquely combines theory and practice to clearly explain the fundamental marketing concepts for non-marketing students. Each chapter offers exceptional learning elements and activities to help students develop their understanding of this interesting and challenging discipline. |
| content for accounting firms: 24 Assets Daniel Priestley, 2017-05 In every industry, there are companies that take off. They effortlessly hire talented people, attract loyal customers, create cool products and make lots of money. These companies seem to stand out and scale up quickly with support from investors, partners and the media. Sadly, most companies don't perform this way. Most entrepreneurs aren't building anything of value. They work hard, make sacrifices, struggle, dream, plan and strive, but in the end, it doesn't pay off. This book sets out a method for building a business that becomes a valuable asset. It focuses you on transforming your organisation into something scalable, digital, fun and capable of making an impact. It's time to, stand out, scale up and build a business that has a life of its own. Start now by reading this book. |
| content for accounting firms: Oversubscribed Daniel Priestley, 2015-05-11 Don't fight for customers, let them fight over you! Have you ever queued for a restaurant? Pre-ordered something months in advance? Fought for tickets that sell out in a day? Had a hairdresser with a six-month waiting list? There are people who don't chase clients, clients chase them. In a world of endless choices, why does this happen? Why do people queue up? Why do they pay more? Why will they book months in advance? Why are these people and products in such high demand? And how can you get a slice of that action? In Oversubscribed, entrepreneur and bestselling author Daniel Priestley explains why…and, most importantly, how. This book is a recipe for ensuring demand outstrips supply for your product or service, and you have scores of customers lining up to give you money. Oversubscribed: Shows leaders, marketers, and entrepreneurs how they can get customers queuing up to use their services and products while competitors are forced to fight for business Explains how to become oversubscribed, even in a crowded marketplace Is full of practical tips alongside inspiring examples to alter our mindsets and get us bursting with ideas Is written by a successful entrepreneur who's used these ideas to excel in the ventures he has launched |
| content for accounting firms: Starting and Building Your Own Accounting Business Jack Fox, 1991-05-23 An updated edition of the book that offers entreprenaurial accountants a headstart that will last the life of their business Now in Paper! Even the most zealous entrepreneur can have second thoughts when confronted with all the decisions required of a new business owner. Jack Fox has been there and draws on that experience to tackle every aspect of building a thriving accounting business—from creating a business plan, locating office space, and hiring a staff, to selecting computer hardware and software, advertising and promoting the practice, and planning for growth. You'll learn whether or not you need to be a CPA, how to make cash flow projections, when you should fire a client, and much more. Provides a programmed action plan for the critical first three months and a broader-based plan for the whole first year Includes charts and forms that can be used in the practice Offers tips on setting fees, timing billings, and prospecting for clients New edition has been expanded to address the growing importance of personal computers JACK FOX (San Diego, California) is President of Jack Fox Associates, an accounting firm, and is also an Adjunct Professor at The American University. The author of Accounting and Record Keeping Made Easy for the Self-Employed, Fox formerly served as the Budget Director of The National Alliance of Business. |
| content for accounting firms: Guide to Audit Data Analytics AICPA, 2018-02-21 Designed to facilitate the use of audit data analytics (ADAs) in the financial statement audit, this title was developed by leading experts across the profession and academia. The guide defines audit data analytics as “the science and art of discovering and analyzing patterns, identifying anomalies, and extracting other useful information in data underlying or related to the subject matter of an audit through analysis, modeling, and visualization for planning or performing the audit.” Simply put, ADAs can be used to perform a variety of procedures to gather audit evidence. Each chapter focuses on an audit area and includes step-by-step guidance illustrating how ADAs can be used throughout the financial statement audit. Suggested considerations for assessing the reliability of data are also included in a separate appendix. |
| content for accounting firms: CPA Firm Mergers and Acquisitions Joel L. Sinkin, Terrence E. Putney, 2016-11-07 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. |
| content for accounting firms: Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Louis V. Gerstner, 2003-12-16 Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? sums up Lou Gerstner's historic business achievement, bringing IBM back from the brink of insolvency to lead the computer business once again.Offering a unique case study drawn from decades of experience at some of America's top companies -- McKinsey, American Express, RJR Nabisco -- Gerstner's insights into management and leadership are applicable to any business, at any level. Ranging from strategy to public relations, from finance to organization, Gerstner reveals the lessons of a lifetime running highly successful companies. |
| content for accounting firms: The Perfect Firm Nixon, 2017-03-31 After spending 23 years working with 170,000 accountants in 30 countries Rob Nixon has worked out what a Perfect Firm might look like. Nixon, who has directly coached 800 firms to success and educated tens of thousand more, is the worlds #1 authority on how accounting firms can achieve peak performance and build a great accounting business. In these pages, through plain English you'll discover: * How to combat digital disruption and build a sustainable business * How to develop a business model that produced $1M profit per partner * Strategies from the worlds most profitable firms * Which numbers are important and which are not * How to create capacity without hiring more accountants * How to grow your revenue exponentially * How to market and sell professionally * Why Value pricing must be implemented - and how to implement it * Winning new clients is easy once you know how * A process for engaging your team in new ways. The Perfect firm is your playbook for for building a perfect accounting business. |
| content for accounting firms: Accounting Principles Roger H. Hermanson, James Don Edwards, Michael W. Maher, 2018-02-16 Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective uses annual reports of real companies to illustrate many of the accounting concepts in use in business today. Gaining an understanding of accounting terminology and concepts, however, is not enough to ensure your success. You also need to be able to find information on the Internet, analyze various business situations, work effectively as a member of a team, and communicate your ideas clearly. Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective will give you an understanding of how to use accounting information to analyze business performance and make business decisions. The text takes a business perspective. We use the annual reports of real companies to illustrate many of the accounting concepts. You are familiar with many of the companies we use, such as The Limited, The Home Depot, and Coca-Cola Company. Gaining an understanding of accounting terminology and concepts, however, is not enough to ensure your success. You also need to be able to find information on the Internet, analyze various business situations, work effectively as a member of a team, and communicate your ideas clearly. This text was developed to help you develop these skills. |
| content for accounting firms: The Selling Staircase Nikki Rauch, 2019 Do you struggle closing the sale?Don't worry--you're not alone.The sales process is more than just a funnel--it's a staircase. As the salesperson, it's your job to earn a prospective clients business by moving them from one step to another.That's where the Selling Staircase comes into play.This book is a five-step approach to move your clients through an authentic sales process. We're going to go through these in-depth throughout the book. This framework will bring new awareness about what you're doing and how to be even more effective in the sales process.Knowing how to communicate with your clients, recognize Buying Signals, and ask for the sale is crucial to the success of your business.So let's get you there.The Selling Staircase model is brilliant and easy to implement in any business. Nobody explains the sales process more enthusiastically, intelligently, and clearly as Nikki Rausch. If you want more sales fast, I highly recommend you read her new book right away.--Shane Sams, Host of The Flipped Lifestyle PodcastFlippedLifestyle.comWith 25+ years of experience selling to such prestigious organizations as The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, and NASA, Nikki shattered sales records in many industries, receiving multiple top producer awards along the way. Nikki Rausch has the unique ability to transform the misunderstood process of selling. Today, entrepreneurs and small business owners from a wide range of disciplines hire Nikki to show them how to sell successfully and authentically, without being pushy or salesy. |
| content for accounting firms: What Really Makes CPA Firms Profitable? Marc Rosenberg, 2012-04-26 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. |
| content for accounting firms: The Radical CPA Jody Padar Cpa, 2015-01-14 *** Save! Get The Radical CPA direct from the publisher at https: //store.cpatrendlines.com/shop/radical/ ***** --------------- There are four characteristics of a radical CPA: -- 1. Their approach to technology. -- 2. Their use of social media. -- 3. Their understanding the relationship between pricing and value. -- 4. And their conviction that customer experience must drive a firm's internal processes. They Call Them The 'Radical' Practitioners There's an uprising of innovative CPAs in the accounting profession. This group created a new support community that is no longer driven by the establishment. The establishment can't control the conversation. In fact, they almost missed it. Now they endorse and support us. But it didn't begin with them. When Jody Padar first started doing this, she wasn't aware of anyone doing what she was doing. Then she went to Twitter. That's where she really met her peers. They were learning from each other from day one and that same community of support is still happening today. A radical practitioner is a person that calls upon himself and others to redefine their firms and their lives by moving away from the traditional firm business model. The term radical applies because what they are doing to their firms and indirectly to the profession is fundamental to its core. It's abrupt, disruptive, unexpected, and far reaching. They are shaking up the status quo. They are changing because their customers and the world are changing around us all. Some might also perceive radical to be a negative term. It's not. The movement is more likely following the happy expression, that's radical, dude. Everyone can learn and join the movement. The Radical CPA Community Is Here To Help You Be Radical, Too The best part about these radical professionals is that we believe in abundance. We promote and celebrate a new way of doing business and encourage the rest of the profession to move forward and change as a whole. *** Save! Buy direct from the publisher at https: //store.cpatrendlines.com/shop/radical/ ***** --------------------- |
| content for accounting firms: The SMART Sales System Michael Halper, 2020-02-27 The SMART Sales System is designed to increase your sales by helping you to improve the most powerful sales tool you have - the words you say when talking with prospects. SMART stands for Sales Messaging and Response Tactics and with that, the system provides clarity for what to say and do during every step of the sales process. The SMART Sales System is unlike all other sales training books and programs in that it is an actual system that you can implement that will tell you exactly what to do (and not do) and what to say (and not say) in all of the common sales prospecting situations you will find yourself in. It does this by providing sales scripts, email templates, questions to ask, objection responses, voicemail scripts, and more. Not only will implementing the system increase your sales, it will also make selling easier, less stressful, and more fun. |
| content for accounting firms: Double Your Accounting FIrm Joe Cassandra, David Cristello, 2017-12-12 Most accounting & bookkeeping firms stagnate because they haven't found the right way to: + Acquire the right type of client, predictably & consistently + Maintain quality service delivered through a high performance team + Develop workflows that drive client retention and firm profitability Smart firm owners know that in order to grow their firm, they'll need to adjust. Doing the same old will not magically create a better practice. But instead of randomly searching through the world of books, blogs, conferences and journals, this book shows you the exact steps you need to take to build a sustainable, high growth firm. In Double Your Accounting Firm, David Cristello (Founder of Jetpack Workflow) and Joe Cassandra, CPA (Principle of JC Copy) curated some of the best frameworks and principles from 100+ top practitioners, and their community of 20,000 accounting professionals. Inside you'll learn how to: + Make the transition from hourly billing to fixed (and then to value). Hint: It doesn't happen overnight + The key questions (and mistakes) that will make you rethink your workflow. For example: How often do you consider the client experience in your process creation? + How to identify your core client, and create a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) that positions your marketing material + The ideal way to run a consultation, so clients view you as the expert (and not a commodity that is traded on price!) + How to drive rapid growth through service expansion or M&A (note: you'll want to create a solid workflow and process structure before doing so!) And much more. Double Your Accounting Firm is a seminar worth of material, condense into an easy access book. At the end of each chapter are also links to interviews with the experts, which you can access for free from your computer or smartphone. If growing your firm is a priority, then this book is your springboard towards acceleration. |
| content for accounting firms: Management of an Accounting Practice American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 1969 |
| content for accounting firms: Principles of Financial Accounting Christine Jonick, 2018-09-30 The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you Principles of Financial Accounting. Well-written and straightforward, Principles of Financial Accounting is a needed contribution to open source pedagogy in the business education world. Written in order to directly meet the needs of her students, this textbook developed from Dr. Christine Jonick's years of teaching and commitment to effective pedagogy. Features: Peer reviewed by academic professionals and tested by students Over 100 charts and graphs Instructional exercises appearing both in-text and for Excel Resources for student professional development |
| content for accounting firms: The Soul of Enterprise Ronald J Baker, Ed Kless, 2015-02-26 The world's economy has been transformed from a twentieth-century materials-based economy to the Age of the Knowledge-Based Economy - and the currency of this realm is ideas, imagination, creativity, and knowledge. According The World Bank, 80% of the developed world's wealth now resides in human capital. Perhaps President Ronald Reagan said it best in his address to Moscow State University on May 31, 1988: Like a chrysalis, we're emerging from the economy of the Industrial Revolution - an economy confined and limited by the Earth's physical resources - into, as one economist titled his book, the economy in mind, in which there are no bounds on human imagination and the freedom to create is the most precious natural resource. Written by Ronald Baker and Ed Kless, hosts of The Soul of Enterprise: Business in the Knowledge Economy, the popular radio show on Voice America's Business Channel, The Soul of Enterprise: Dialogues on Business in the Knowledge Economy sounds the clarion call that organizations can no longer ignore this seismic shift that has occurred in the economy since 1959. The Soul of Enterprise introduces the three components of Intellectual Capital - human capital, social capital, and structural capital - and how to leverage them to create wealth in today's economy, by revealing: The physical fallacy - why wealth no longer consists of tangible things, but of ideas, imagination and knowledge from human minds The best learning tool ever invented: After Action Reviews Why Frederick Taylor and the Scientific Management movement was a fraud and the wrong focus for knowledge workers The fact that effectiveness always and everywhere trumps efficiency The First Law of Pricing: All value is subjective The Second Law of Pricing: All prices are contextual The Morality of Markets: Doing well and doing good Why your organization - and you - need to be driven by a higher purpose than profit The Soul of Enterprise will inspire and challenge readers to unlock the enormous financial and competitive power hidden in the intellectual capital of their organizations and knowledge workers. |
| content for accounting firms: AICPA Professional Standards: Accounting American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 1974 |
| content for accounting firms: Social Media Strategies for Professionals and Their Firms Michelle Golden, 2010-11-17 Expert advice on growing your professional service firm or individual practice through social media Showing professionals and their marketers how to accomplish familiar marketing tactics in newer, ways, Social Media for Professionals and Their Firms takes you step by step in putting social media to work for your professional practice. Whether you want to build your own on-line reputation, or are ready to explore new media for corporate marketing and communications, this book is the definitive guide for your strategic approach. Explores why the fastest and most leveragable way to expand relationships today is through the Internet Provides step-by-step approaches to successful professional blogging Discusses high-level strategies for effectively using Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and bookmarking sites Includes pitfalls and success stories featuring notable social media trailblazers Timely and practical, this book shows you why new media is rapidly becoming the core way for professionals to reach their audiences. Whether your firm provides legal, accounting, financial planning, architecture, consultancy, or other services, Social Media Strategies for Professionals and Their Firms will show you ways to better reach and communicate with your customers. |
| content for accounting firms: Marketing for CPAs, Accountants, and Tax Professionals William J. Winston, 1995 The contributing authors to Marketing for CPAs, Accountants, and Tax Professionals combine their expertise into a reference manual for today's accountant. Presented in four sections, the book covers all areas pertinent to effective marketing for accounting firms in the 90s and beyond: The Marketing Process Are Accountants Responding to the Challenge of Change? Marketing by CPA Firms: Room for Improvement? Has the Household User Profile for Accounting Services Changed? The Small Accounting Firm: Managing the Dynamics of the Marketing Function Perspectives on Marketing Professional Tax Service Marketing From a Consumer Buyer Behavior Perspective Price of Tax Preparation Services and the CPA Credential on Perceived Quality of Service Marketing Implications for Small CPA Firms Based on Clients' Criteria for Selection and Retention Advertising Advertising by Accountants: Attitudes, Practice, and Their Use of Marketing Tools A Survey of the Utilization of Advertising by CPA Firms The Changing Face of Accounting Advertising Marketing Tools and Strategies Marketing Financial Planning Services: Highlights of a Survey of CPAs Strategic Marketing Planning for the Development of the Small Accounting Practice A Complete Positioning Strategy for the Professional Services Firm Practical Approaches for Evaluating the Quality of Professional Accounting Services An Empirical Investigation of the Pricing of Professional Services (Applied to Public Accounting) |
| content for accounting firms: The Million Dollar CPA Firm Salim Omar, 2016-09-12 Although the process of becoming a CPA requires extensive study and learning, it usually includes little practical education on how to establish and grow a successful practice that allows you to live the lifestyle you want. Salim Omar has filled this gap in his new book The Million Dollar CPA Firm, which follows his popular previous guide The Ultimate CPA Practice in the New Economy. This is book will inspire those setting out to establish their own firm as well as existing practiceowners who want to reach higher levels of success. Inside, Salim outlines seven key principles of practice management success. The practical examples and specific guidelines provided allow you to start implementing positive change in yourpractice today, such as: * Creating the right foundation that enables you to scale to the Million Dollar mark and beyond * Building a high performing championship team that frees you from constantly working in your practice * Attracting a consistent stream of quality, well-paying clients * Delivering high standards of service that bonds clients to your firm and generates instant referrals * Maximizing efficiency and effectiveness through the right systems and processes |
| content for accounting firms: The Principles and Practice of Auditing George Puttick, Sandy van Esch, 2007 A valuable resource for students preparing for certification, registered accountants and auditors, and financial personnel in various businesses, this is the 9th updated edition of a classic auditing text. Integrating theory with practice and application, it is up-to-date with the field's recent and gradual transition from self-regulation to external auditing and supervision. |
| content for accounting firms: The Balanced Scorecard Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton, 2005 |
| content for accounting firms: The Consulting Trap Chris Hurl, Leah B. Werner, 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z The Consulting Trap does a deep dive into how governments have become hooked on private consultancy firms with dire consequences for democratic decision-making, public accountability and accessible public services. Hurl and Werner contend that firms like McKinsey, Accenture, KPMG and Deloitte increasingly take responsibility for core public services, trapping governments in cycles of dependency. Through orchestrating tax avoidance for the wealthy while engineering austerity for the rest, these firms have created the foundations for the deepening privatization of the public services, further entrenching their power. Drawing on case studies from Canada and around the world, Hurl and Werner investigate how big consultancies leverage social networks, institutionalize relationships, mine and commodify data, and establish policy pipelines that facilitate the quick diffusion of ideas across jurisdictions. Drawing from real world examples, The Consulting Trap offers strategies for how these powerful firms can be resisted using people’s audits, public consultations, access to information requests, and social network analyses. |
| content for accounting firms: Knowledge and Practice in Business and Organisations Kevin Orr, Sandra Nutley, Shona Russell, Rod Bain, Bonnie Hacking, Clare Moran, 2016-03-22 Knowledge and Practice in Business and Organisations contributes to scholarly understanding of knowledge and practice, mapping the conceptual terrain, providing a critical review of debates in the field and setting out key theoretical perspectives. Knowledge and practice are explored in a range of organisational and policy settings through six context-specific discussions. The collection helps shape the field, identify areas for future research inquiry, and suggest implications for practitioners. The range of sites of inquiry represented in the book (e.g. craft working, accounting, public sector organisations, creative industries, health care, and so on) make the book distinctive, enabling the reader to connect debates and ideas from across a range of sectors and disciplines. The book charts different currents of debate which have hitherto tended to remain unconnected. In one accessible volume, this book provides an excellent introduction to a set of concepts that have animated scholarly conversations across a range of disciplines and provides cases and examples of practices which come from beyond any one particular sector. Aimed at researchers and academics in the field, this book is valuable source, helping define and progress the scholarly debate. |
| content for accounting firms: Bulletin , 1970 |
| content for accounting firms: PCAOB Standards and Related Rules AICPA, 2018-02-13 Pursuant to PCAOB Release No. 2017-001, The Auditor's Report on an Audit of Financial Statements When the Auditor Expresses an Unqualified Opinion and Related Amendments to PCAOB Standards, dated June 1, 2017, the PCAOB adopted a new auditor reporting standard and related amendments that will require the auditor to provide new information about the audit and make the auditor's report more informative and relevant to investors and other financial statement users. The standard and related amendments were subsequently approved by the SEC on October 23, 2017, and are effective as of audits of fiscal years ending on or after December 15, 2017 (except for the “Critical Audit Matters” section of the standard and related amendments, which have a phased effective date). This 2018 edition of the AICPA’s PCAOB Standards and Related Rules includes the newly approved standard The Auditor's Report on an Audit of Financial Statements When the Auditor Expresses an Unqualified Opinion (AS 3101). In addition, this title also features updated staff guidance, included a new question and answers section, updated guidance for firms filing the new Form AP, and a new Staff Audit Practice Alert to assist auditors in applying PCAOB standards when auditing companies' implementation of the new FASB revenue accounting standard. |
| content for accounting firms: Corporate Governance and Ethics Zabihollah Rezaee, 2008-06-16 Colleges and universities play an important role in training competent and ethical future academic and business leaders. In today’s global business environment, with volatile worldwide capital markets and eroded investor confidence in corporate accountability, the demand for effective corporate governance and ethical conduct in ensuring reliable financial information is higher than before. This book is intended to develop an awareness and understanding of the main themes, perspectives, frameworks, concepts, and issues pertaining to corporate governance and business ethics from historical, global, institutional, commercial, best practices, and regulatory perspectives. |
| content for accounting firms: Crisis, Recovery, and the Role of Accounting Firms in the Pacific Basin David L. McKee, Don E. Garner, Yosra AbuAmara McKee, 2002-04-30 The authors bring the disciplines of accounting and economics to bear on an examination of the critical role played by the major accounting firms in the ongoing economic recovery of Pacific Rim nations from the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. Accounting firms, through their service offerings, are having an impact not only on economic indicators, but also on longer-term growth prospects and development patterns in the newly industrialized nations of Southeast Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan), emerging nations (Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia) and selected Pacific island nations (including Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Vanuatu). For practitioners in the private and public sectors and their academic colleagues. Demonstrating the full extent of the influence of global accounting firms on Pacific economies, the authors provide an overview of domestic accounting institutions for each grouping of nations in order to lend valuable context to the discussion of the role of international services firms in each individual jurisdiction. For those whose work or academic accounting services in Southeast Asia, or the role in the region of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and various regional development banks and United Nations agencies. |
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accountancy firms globally (either in one of the Big Four, or a mid-tier firm). Overall, responses from this group broadly align to those across the profession.
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These materials may not be reproduced or distributed to any other person without written permission from The Rosenberg Associates LTD. This publication is intended to provide general …
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