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cpas can’t help you

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look outside the cpa world for practice management answers. by frank stitely the relentless cpa there are no easy answers. the people who are selling “firm of the future” once…

what the value-pricers get wrong

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and 5 ways to fix it. by frank stitely beeeeeep. briiinnnnggg. boooooop. you reach over to turn off the alarm. but it’s not your alarm, and it’s not 6 a.m….

four amusing millennial myths

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are you sure they’re so different? by frank stitely no workplace topic triggers more useless diatribes and spewed nonsense than the dreaded millennial. more from frank stitely: the annual tax…

readers sound off: what tax season decline?

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…and self-preparers, by 4.7 percent. frank stitely, managing member of stitely & karstetter in chantilly, va., said, “we are experiencing the exact opposite. we were way up in january and…

the annual tax meeting is dead. clients killed it. 

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four ways we’re better off without pre-scheduled client meetings.

by frank stitely

we had been scheduling tax meetings for over 20 years. we thought clients wanted them.

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they came because we told them to, not because they wanted to.

today, face-to-face meetings are so 1990s.

the tax meeting is dead.  clients – and maybe covid, too – killed it.

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reader sound-off: mandatory saturdays stir controversy

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commenting on “mandatory saturdays,” clockwise from top left: stitely, boress, michel, evarts

is it work-life balance, or firm-employee balance?

sound-off: does your firm mandate saturdays?
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by beth bellor
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tax season has yet to start and already tempers are flaring in the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 comments section as practitioners debate requiring staffers to work on saturdays during busy season.

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in “how to make mandatory saturdays a thing of the past,” 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 contributor jennifer wilson says the “cool firms” are eliminating the age-old practice nd replacing it with flex-time, work-at-home, and results-oriented strategies. still, she says, “i literally hear a gasp of surprise because it challenges one of the most fundamental elements of public accounting – tracking, measuring and valuing time.”

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new survey finds widespread rate hikes in tax & accounting firms

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卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 survey panel: top row, from left: roark, reitblatt, shore, allgood. second row: meers, viergutz, wiedorn, murray, carr. bottom row: ryman, stitely, flanagan, waite.
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 survey panel: top row, from left: roark, reitblatt, shore, allgood. second row: meers, viergutz, wiedorn, murray, carr. bottom row: ryman, stitely, flanagan, waite.

those who can, do. those who can’t, make do.

next question: who’s succeeding with value pricing? 
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by rick telberg
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and that goes double for cpas. we’ve had it hard. when the recession hit, we lost clients. the clients we didn’t lose couldn’t afford fee increases. but the cost of software increased, and most hardware has had to be replaced twice since the recession first hit. salaries have gone up, too, especially among accountants, whose ranks have thinned in recent years. and the tax regulations get harder, the waiting time on the irs line longer, the reporting lengthier.

at long last, economic conditions seem to be improving enough for widespread increases in billing rates and fees. about 85 percent of respondents to the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 study of pricing strategies and trends see an upward trend underway.

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cpa dave murray at his eponymous firm in troy, ohio, is pushing through “significant increases.” he says, “our firm is increasingly being paid for our knowledge.” “yes,” he says, value pricing is becoming an important success strategy. “when it’s worth more to the client we charge more,” he says. and he does it all while maximizing profit margins and retaining clients. “we have a consistent flow of new clients and we no longer have to discount to get them to come in,” he says.

frank stitely, at skc cpas in chantilly, va., and a frequent contributor to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间, is being more careful, with only slight increases. “personal taxes, specifically, are a commodity, and, in general, compliance services are commoditizing,” he says, with his pricing driven my market forces. on the other hand, the firm bills “per form for personal returns and by proposal for almost everything else.”

brian roark in jenison, mich., likes to say integrity tax’s offices have been doing taxes “since dinosaurs roamed the earth.” but today he’s playing catch-up in the wage markets, pushing through moderate billing increases.

at southwest tax & accounting in elkhart, kan., owner terri ryman, ea and quickbooks proadvisor, is going for significant price increases as clients struggle with the affordable care act and repair regs. she says her business is growing every year. ryman is also a prominent member of the national society of accountants and the national association of tax professionals. read more →