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ron baker: monetize the relationship, not the transaction

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ron baker: the subscription model optimizes lifetime customer value.

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the disruptors
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ron baker has been on a crusade to transform accounting firms for decades, first by pushing us to kill the billable hour and to implement value pricing. today, he’s advising accountants to switch to a radically different business model. his new book, co-authored with paul dunn, “time’s up! the subscription business model for professional firms,” explains the subscription model and why moving to this model aligns the values of firm owners with those of their customers.

more: erik solbakken: yes, you can work less and make more | donny shimamoto: future firm growth requires a mindshift | jennifer wilson: empower young workers to build the firm everyone loves | mike whitmire: re-think your hiring and training practices | hector garcia: success strategies of a quickbooks youtube superstar | blake oliver: why tax work yearns to be free| private equity explodes in u.k. | brannon poe: the status quo must go  | accounting nerds, unlock your super powers  | disruptor: jason statts shakes up the status quo | think small to think big with matt wilkinson | when financial statements go extinct with corey schmidt | can geraldine carter save accountants from themselves? | re-inventing accounting with tyler anderson

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this book began from ron’s obsession with the question “what would happen if disney started cpa firms?” accounting wouldn’t be a grudge purchase with low prices, but disney “would enhance the experience and you would pay a fortune and you would be delighted to do so.” in today’s world, your customers are no longer comparing your firm to the other cpa firms, but to “any organization that has the capacity of raising our customer’s expectations,” such as nordstrom or amazon. baker said, “we need to up our game as a profession.”

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ed kless: clients don’t want outputs. they want outcomes

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the disruptors: too busy? raise your prices.

 

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the disruptors
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what do clients – or, as ed kless prefers, customers – want from their accountants? it’s not the tax return or the financial statement but the outcome for the customer, which is most often peace of mind.

to remain relevant in disruptions like online tax preparation and automated bookkeeping tech firms like pilot, accountants need to consider other ancillary services they can provide above and beyond those basic services.

more:  seth fineberg: your classic business model won’t allow growth | hector garcia: success strategies of a quickbooks youtube superstar | blake oliver: why tax work yearns to be free| private equity explodes in u.k. | brannon poe: the status quo must go  | accounting nerds, unlock your super powers  | disruptor: jason statts shakes up the status quo | think small to think big with matt wilkinson | when financial statements go extinct with corey schmidt | can geraldine carter save accountants from themselves? | re-inventing accounting with tyler anderson

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“when you bill by the hour, when you have to measure your time, and when you tell the customer, ‘pay attention to my efficiency because that’s what i’m going to charge you,’ then they start looking at your efficiency instead of your effectiveness, which is the wrong thing to be looking at,” kless explained.

additionally, kless said cpas who are “too busy” need to raise their fees.

he said, “one of the mantras in pricing is innovating for growth, pricing for profit. when an organization wants to grow, the focus has to be on innovating, creating new things to offer, not necessarily what we used to be called rainmaking, which is getting more customers.”

kless maintains that accountants or cpas should strive to be the first person called, no matter what the customer wants, whether it’s super bowl tickets or a recommendation for the best medical team in an emergency. but experimenting with adding additional services or converting to a subscription-based business model will not be possible for firms that remain wedded to the timesheet, which, kess said, quoting ron baker, is cancer of the accounting profession.

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seth fineberg: your classic business model won’t allow growth

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the disruptors: billable hours – demeaning and demoralizing or useful measurement?

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the disruptors
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anyone who has been in the accounting profession–or legal profession–for any length of time knows how revered the billable hour is. however, plenty of firms are ditching the billable hour–a move that many professionals say is long overdue.

more:  hector garcia: success strategies of a quickbooks youtube superstar | blake oliver: why tax work yearns to be free| private equity explodes in u.k. | brannon poe: the status quo must go  | accounting nerds, unlock your super powers  | disruptor: jason statts shakes up the status quo | think small to think big with matt wilkinson | when financial statements go extinct with corey schmidt | can geraldine carter save accountants from themselves? | re-inventing accounting with tyler anderson

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seth fineberg, a business journalist specializing in the accounting profession, says the billable hour can’t be a significant part of the business model of the future.

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rob brown: doing nothing is not an option

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the disruptors: if we don’t change, we’ll be irrelevant, says rob brown.

 

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it’s a changing world, and if we don’t change with it, we will cease to be relevant, u.k.-based accounting podcaster rob brown tells 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间’ liz farr.

more disruptors: blake oliver: why tax work yearns to be free | private equity explodes in u.k. | brannon poe: the status quo must go  |  accounting nerds, unlock your super powers  | private equity vs. the cpa firm partnership the fintech flood: accounting will never be the same  |  think small to think big with matt wilkinson | your sales tax headaches are only just beginning | when financial statements go extinct with corey schmidt  |  can geraldine carter save accountants from themselves? |  re-inventing accounting with tyler anderson |  turning client service into new revenue

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a host of the accounting influencers podcast, brown says what got us here won’t get us there in the fight to be relevant in our practices, with our clients and in our careers. brown’s podcasting partner is martin bissett, a 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 contributor and world-renowned growth advisor to accounting firms.

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geni whitehouse: unlock your accountant super powers

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the disruptors: geni whitehouse shows how to shift from a focus on mere data to priceless wisdom.

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covid showed us that we can do more than traditional services and that we can respond to change even when we don’t have all the information, cpa geni whitehouse tells liz farr in an exclusive interview for 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.

more videos and podcasts: private equity vs. the cpa firm partnership | the fintech flood: accounting will never be the same | the disruptors: re-inventing accounting with tyler anderson |  the disruptors: how to scale with new padgett coo amanda aguillard | eat that frog: asking for a prospect meeting | growing revenue through client service | lease accounting is about to get very real | google ads for new tax season clients | exclusive: eisner ceo charly weinstein explains the private equity deal  | flash briefing: a “call to arms” after private equity deal | four ways to beat the staffing shortage, with pasha malik

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covid has given the profession the opportunity to impact clients in a very real way, and clients now see accountants in a very different light, says whitehouse long an evangelist in the profession for progressive practices and innovation.

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we’re honored

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…ed kless, senior director of partner development and strategy, sage • ed mendlowitz, emeritus partner, withumsmith+brown • erik asgeirsson, president and ceo, cpa.com • gale crosley, president and founder, crosley+co….

timesheets: the nuclear option

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lamentations on the billable hour: jamey johnson’s “the dollar.”

nuke ’em: kill timesheets before they kill the profession.

by ed kless

the litany of “challenges for the profession” repeats the narrative that has been well documented and continues to grow for over the last decade:

  • while there are more people graduating with degrees in accounting, fewer of them are sitting for the cpa exam. this is leading to fewer new hires for firms.
  • the new hires they do have are “millennials” who desire a challenge and think they should be made partner sooner rather than later.
  • attrition, especially at the mid-career level, is over 10 percent and is mostly initiated by the professional, not the firm.
  • the loss of people in the middle and bottom of the pyramid is eroding the traditional economic model. non-equity partners are increasing and funding for partner buyouts is disappearing.
  • cries of “we must become more efficient,” and/or, “we must embrace new technology,” and/or “we must hold people more accountable,” reverberate in meetings.
  • compliance work continues to flatline and while new offerings are growing revenue, they are not growing fast enough. worse still those that do this work are often not even cpas!

more ed kless at 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间: your time has no inherent value  |  ed kless: what is strategic pricing?  |  ed kless on factors affecting price sensitivity  |  a radical close look at value pricing  |  billable hour in the extreme  |  the four factors for fixed pricing

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presentation after presentation is viewed on the modern equivalent of the campfire, the conference room projector. “our profession is sick, even dying. we might have cancer. we really don’t know, but it is bad.” it’s true, the profession does have cancer. the good news is, we know the cause and it is curable.

it is called “a timesheet.” it be must cut it out completely before it kills.

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why firms merge: hint, it’s not for the clients

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survey shows few firms will be left untouched today’s m&a tsunami.

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roughly 7 in 10 accountants have been through a merger.
been through a merger yet? roughly 7 in 10 accountants have, and the signs point to even more m&a activity.

the world of accounting firm mergers is churning, and whether you’re in the market for a deal or not, the frenzy will affect your practice.

a third of accountants see a very active or extremely active m&a market in the works, and more than half say the trend is accelerating, according to the new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 mergers & acquisitions survey, conducted in conjunction with capstone marketing.

the survey, which delves into the attitudes and behaviors of the m&a phenomenon like no other study, is yielding a raft of surprising findings.
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your competition and client market are going to shift around, with smaller firms disappearing, then popping up inside bigger firms, and clients dragged here and there, some of them looking for new cpas. and if you’re scouting for talent, it could get hard to rope them in.

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