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working for a jerk

what is more important to you, how you look or how good the work is?

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

early on in my career, i was assigned to work with a manager on a half-dozen monthly clients.

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he went with me and worked on the main company while i worked alongside him on the baby company. the baby company was much smaller and usually was for a second line the client had. i did the writeup and prepared the financial and other statements for the current month and year to date.
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staffers need to speak up with clients

5 takeaways.

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

i started my third job one year and seven months after i graduated college. i was hired as a “junior” but felt i was more experienced because i was doing “higher level” work at my previous job.

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the first week at my new job, i was sitting at a long table in the staff room with two other junior accountants, footing 50-page, 10-column schedules and similar work. i mean footing. this was january 1965 and we did not have calculators or adding machines. there was one monroe calculator in the office, and if you wanted percentages you literally had to wait on line to get a turn using it.
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when writeups went extinct

why it was so valuable and how to gain that knowledge now.

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

writeups are extinct. when i started in 1963, most small cpa firms primarily did writeups. after i started my practice in 1969, it became an embarrassment to say i did writeups. it connoted something beneath my “professional” status.

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i think a problem today is that writeups no longer exist for younger staff.
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the ‘wrong’ cpe

do you have 10 hours available this year?

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

in my previous article, i discussed mandatory cpe. today i am writing about non-mandatory courses: those covering practice management.

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i have a friend who sells trophies and goes to a trophy convention in las vegas each year. while there, she takes courses on how to make more money selling trophies, and each time she comes home with a couple of ideas that help her run her business better and make more money. yet, cpas do not do take these types of courses because they do not get cpe credit for them. stupid! stupid! stupid!
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bored by cpe? you’re missing out!

make the requirement work for you.

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

cpas are required to take continuing professional education courses each year. the amount varies by state, but every state has mandatory requirements.

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some cpas, like me, take courses and look for ideas to be able to serve clients better.
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kennedy’s acceptance speech

john and jackie kennedy in car in dallas — *by walt cisco, dallas morning news (public domain), via wikimedia commons*

selling by swaying.

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

this is not about jfk.

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when he was nominated at the 1960 democratic convention, his acceptance speech was preceded with an introduction by chester bowes narrating a film about kennedy’s life and achievements.
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be a sounding board to your clients

are you ready to make lemonade?

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

entrepreneurs are the brightest most focused and determined people i know. but it is also lonely for many of them.

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there are few people they can trust, and sometimes they just need a sounding board of someone who won’t pass judgment but might point out inconsistencies or illogical conclusions. that is a role for cpas, and sometimes great things come out of it.
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clients buy solutions, not hours

are you providing the value they expect?

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

pricing, billing and collecting fees for services are how accountants earn their livings.

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one time, one of my fellow partners at withumsmith+brown, peter weitsen, billed a client for a lengthy phone call and a followup memo, and the client complained, saying that he did not realize he would have to pay for the work he did. read more →

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edward mendlowitz, cpa, abv, pfs, is a partner at withum, a forward-thinking, technology-driven advisory, and accounting firm. ed has over 40 years of public accounting experience, is recognized as one of the top 100 most influential people in accounting by accounting today, and is the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 "practice doctor."

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he is a licensed certified public accountant in the states of new jersey and new york and is accredited by the american institute of certified public accountants (aicpa) in business valuation (abv), certified in financial forensics (cff) and as a personal financial specialist (pfs). ed is also admitted to practice before the united states tax court and has testified as an expert witness in federal and state court regarding business valuations, and twice at the house ways and means committee on tax reform, fairness, and reduction. a graduate of city college of new york, ed earned his bachelor of business administration degree.

he is a member of the aicpa, the new jersey society of certified public accountants (njscpa) and the new york state society of certified public accountants (nysscpa). in addition, ed was a founding partner of mendlowitz weitsen, llp, cpas, which merged with withum in 2005. currently, he serves on the nysscpa estate planning committee and was chairman of the committee that planned the nysscpa’s 100th anniversary. the author of 19 books, ed has also written hundreds of articles for business and professional journals and newsletters.

he is the contributing editor to the practitioners publishing company’s 706/709 deskbook, and the aicpa’s management of an accounting practice handbook, corporate controller’s handbook and wiley’s handbook on budgeting and is on the editorial board of bottom line/personal newsletter and the journal of accountancy member panel on business valuation. appearing regularly on television news programs, ed has also been quoted in numerous major newspapers and periodicals in the united states. he is the recipient of the lawler award for the best article published during 2001 in the journal of accountancy.

ed is a frequent speaker to many professional and business groups, including the aicpa, njscpa, nysscpa, american management association, the national committee for monetary reform, university of medicine and dentistry in n.j., and many more. for 11 years, he taught courses on financial analysis, corporate financial policy and theory, monetary and fiscal policy, and managerial accounting in the mba program at fairleigh dickinson university.

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