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how to reduce tax return errors

we must turn unseen clients into human beings in the eyes of staff.

i wasn’t initially certain this post was necessary. i covered a lot of material in my first book and other posts.

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however, last night my sleep was haunted by the ghosts of tax return errors past, present and future. i saw my coffin rolling down the chute to the cremation chamber. i was inside shouting that i had one more checklist to complete before my life was done.
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teaching the meaning of ‘done’

not to be confused with the dreaded “done but.”

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

in my last book, as with this one, i recommended hiring younger staff. in that book, i cautioned that you might have to teach very simple tasks like breathing and using the bathroom to your newbies. www.g005e.com posted an excerpt with my advice.

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one reader posted that she didn’t believe it was the responsibility of an admin department to teach bathroom use. she was new to this hot new writing technique called sarcasm. she did a great job making my point that you have to teach your staff a lot of really basic things.
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how we killed the tax season client meeting

yep, there’s an app for that!

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

what did dorothy and her friends fear in the wizard of oz? “lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” dorothy feared the wrong things if she’s a partner in a cpa firm. we don’t see much wildlife in our offices during tax season unless you count fast food delivery people and the occasional crazy client.

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we should really fear the events that destroy our priorities and drain hours from productive work. meetings and phone calls and emails, oh my! let’s look at why these communication methods are so destructive from a practice management standpoint.
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why your firm needs to attract more millenials

what makes a firm millennial-friendly? ask a millennial.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

younger clients demand electronic solutions. if you want younger clients, evolve your firm.

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this evolution becomes even more critical when you consider that paper tax forms are going away. we will harness electronic data feeds from blockchain transaction systems. annual tax season meetings become totally useless at this point.
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client service opportunities

why millennials are the answer

millennial clients will make your firm smarter, faster, and more profitable.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

do you know why millennials can’t buy houses?

avocado toast is expensive.

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how many millennials does it take to change a light bulb?

none. they accept it for what it is.

why do millennials always type in lower case?

they reject capitalism.

what is a millennial’s favorite fragrance?

scents of entitlement.

buy me a craft beer, and i’ll tell you a half dozen more. now, after all of the above, i’m about to tell you why you need millennials as clients and how they increase the efficiency of your firm.

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why small firms can win the talent wars

seven keys to beating the staffing shortage.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

the following story brought tears to my eyes while i sat in a barbados resort drinking some alcohol concoction. was it the alcohol talking or the happy ending where i got a profit distribution check? maybe a little of both.

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the afternoon before i left for beautiful barbados, the partner group of our outsourced accounting practice met for a state of the practice meeting conducted by our director of outsourced accounting.
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the fool in the room

which employee is most valuable? you might be surprised.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

we have been heavily in the numbers so far. let’s take a break from that to discuss a factor that, while not heavily numeric, plays a big factor in managing wip – employee productivity. because capacity is the denominator in the lean six sigma equation, and employee productivity is a big factor in capacity, employee productivity becomes a big factor in determining turnaround time.

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first, let’s dismiss from the room all the consultants, who tell us that time tracking and productivity metrics don’t matter. for the most part, these consultants have never managed or owned cpa firms. rarely have they worked in firms for any length of time.
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calculating and cutting turnaround time

also known as the laziness equation.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

one of the funniest parts of launching clarity practice management has been watching my business partner, peter daniel, learn about the business acumen of cpas and accountants. peter and i founded clarity as a collaboration between a cpa firm client (peter) and a cpa firm (me.). he knew what he wanted from a client perspective, and i knew what we wanted as a cpa firm.

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peter owns a software development company and believes in the rational decision-making model for businesses. the rational decision-making model is totally irrelevant to the way most cpas and accountants run their practices. for instance, consider this interchange between peter and a practitioner at our clarity booth during a trade show.
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there are no easy answers

but we still can make more money, have happier clients and lead saner lives.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

i’m back. since writing the “relentless cpa – the new 21^st century system for driving success at tax and accounting firms,” i have spoken to dozens of cpas and accountants, been called a dozen names (some of them deserved), and received a few death threats.

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actually, the death threats came from my wife, who said she’d kill me if i said “yes” to any new projects. she watches lots of crime shows, so the fbi regarded her threats as serious. i am writing this to buy a bulletproof vest for when she gets out of jail. thank you for your contribution to saving my life.
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clarity practice management releases updated software

saas-based practice management software for accounting and tax firms now at version 12.0.

chantilly, virginia – clarity practice management, llc today announced the release of version 12.0. the new version includes new functionality including:

1. recurring projects that can be created from:

project types
project templates
existing projects

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the 3 biggest tech failures of accounting firms

stop waiting for the one solution that will solve all your problems.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

technology is a constant challenge for accounting firms.

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we’re learning to get a lot right, but there still are some things that firms get wrong on a regular basis.

busy season management

debunking the demise of the cpa firm

ai and blockchain aren’t replacing us.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

industry pundits subject us to a nonstop barrage of predictions that cpa firms will cease to exist very shortly. you know how much i love our industry pundits, who have never worked a day in a cpa firm. i dislike the ones who have not worked in cpa firms in the last 20 years only slightly less. their predictions are total and utter nonsense.

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i see two main types of doomsday predictions from our pundit buddies. first, they tell us that artificial intelligence will replace us. next, if ai doesn’t get us, blockchain will.
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how to thrive as a 21st-century firm

“professional staff without higher-level skills will be out of the business.”

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

if you believe accounting industry pundits, artificial intelligence and blockchain will decimate accounting firms the way an asteroid killed off the dinosaurs. but paleontologists don’t think dinosaurs really went extinct. they survived as today’s birds. in the next 10 years, or sooner, accounting and tax firms will evolve from offices full of employees dutifully typing data into workstations to organizers of terabytes of accounting data for our clients.

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the pundits are wrong about our extinction. effective project management will prepare your firm to thrive in the 21st century. i’ll take you there in a bit of a roundabout way via the coming of blockchain to the irs.
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