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the tough love only you can apply to your practice.

i know … you became a cpa because that sounded like an adult job that would give you the financial resources to buy that lamborghini and winter in the south of france. have that lamborghini yet? me neither. clearly, people lied to us – #fakecareers. i’m not really into $2,000 oil changes anyway.

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so, let’s shift the focus from you to your firm. what will your firm be when it grows up? what do you want it to be? how do you transform your firm to make it the best it can be?

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the agile accountant

learning a lesson from software programmers.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

agile project management conjures up the image of scruffy software programmers surrounded by empty pizza boxes at 3 a.m. hacking away at producing the next google.

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what could agile possibly bring to accounting and income tax preparation?

actually a lot, and it could transform your workflow and provide a quantum leap in the efficiency of your project management.

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the 21st-century cpa firm

learning how to learn.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

our profession is woefully behind state-of-the-art management.

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have you read anything about agile project management in cpa firms? no? well then, lean in a little.

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the great marketing hoax

dump “differentiation.” embrace profitability.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

there are only two ways to succeed in a commodity market: 1. differentiate or 2. get really efficient.

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if you’ve been drinking the kool-aid from industry consultants who have never worked in cpa firms, you’ll likely choose differentiation. when you differentiate, you get paid what you’re worth – at least according to these experts.

but let’s take a closer look.

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the cure for commoditization

managing for profits beats price-cutting.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

in the beginning, the irs created the 1040 and saw that it was good. shortly thereafter, the first cpa crawled out of the primordial muck and asked, “how can i make money preparing tax returns?”

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the green eyeshade-wearing neanderthal cpas eventually evolved into cpas experienced in electronic data management, but today, we are still trying to answer that first question.

effective project management isn’t the entire answer, but it’s an essential building block.

innovation & change management

ruthlessly efficient workflow management

work smarter, not harder.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

for years, i’ve written angry-man blogs flogging cpas and tax preparers for not treating their practices like businesses.

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i coined the term “ruthlessly efficient workflow management” to promote the marriage of project management and delegation.

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what the value-pricers get wrong

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. yet. it’s the coffee maker. or is it the dishwasher? or the washing machine? it turns out to be a text message. you glance down at your smartphone, and you see 14 app notifications, 27 e-mails, and three texts. your smartwatch yells at you for not meeting your “fitness” goal yesterday.

by 6 a.m., half of humanity competes for your attention. every computer programmer on the planet believes his notifications rock your world. when everything beeps, do any of the beeps really matter? the rock group, chicago, wrote, “does anybody really know what time it is?” yes, it’s time for another notification.

we don’t suffer alone. our clients share our pain.

the value pricing people tell us that we aren’t selling time. but we are. we aren’t selling our time. we are selling our clients’ time – back to them. 21st-century clients want perfect compliance, fast service, and a competitive price – as a start. most importantly, they want us to save them time.

humor

four amusing millennial myths

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 meeting is dead. clients killed it. | 3 rules for asking great tax-return questions
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know why millennials can’t afford houses? avocado toast is expensive. when millennials play monopoly, they never buy any properties. they just circle the board and pay rent. a millennial, a gen xer and a baby boomer drive to a bar. well, you know that story can’t be true. the millennial takes lyft. tweet any word from a dictionary, and you’ll offend a millennial somewhere.
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the annual tax meeting is dead. clients killed it.

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.

innovation & change management

3 rules for asking great tax-return questions

preserve your sanity, amaze your clients.

by frank stitely

asking clients great questions is central to ruthlessly efficient workflow management (r.e.w.).

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great client questions can save hundreds of hours of time during tax season and prevent projects from falling behind schedule. here’s an example of questions done badly.

busy season management

where workflow management runs off the rails

ruthlessly efficient workflow management and the tragic tale of tammy tardy.

by frank stitely, cpa, cva
clarity practice management

tammy tardy was an average tax preparer who owned a typical tax preparation firm. every tax season tammy met with a hundred or so tax clients much like many of us. tammy managed her workload using the piles of files method. after a client meeting, she put the file aside, knowing she would get to it shortly.

“ruthlessly efficient workflow management offers the chance to wring another ten years of profitability out of the 1040 market.”

of course, twenty meetings later, she had no idea what she should work on next. so she just picked up a file from her office floor and began. she felt that it didn’t matter which returns you work on when you are overworked and in a hurry. there’s a fixed amount of work to get done by april 15th, and you just jump in and do it.

outlook & analysis

three ways your office tech is ruining your firm

why you can’t afford to wait for the next big thing.

by frank stitely, cpa, cva

technology pundits love to pontificate in absolutes. “you have an absolute duty to protect your clients’ data.”

so they advise taking a pass on new technology, such as mobile devices and the cloud, as being too risky. their recommendation is to wait until tech security stabilizes, which is the same as their recommendation last year, which was the same as their… you get the picture.

faced with new technology, as cpas, we must fear it. or so we are told. but the pundits misunderstand the risk of the status quo. read more →

outlook & analysis

when value pricing works

what econ 101 and inelastic demand curves teach us about billing rates.

by frank stitely, cpa, cva

before we turn our hymnal to page 10 and sing that old favorite “we’re not selling time. we’re selling knowledge,” let’s consider if clients are buying what we’re selling.

when you go to the grocery store, do you ask, “i’d like to buy the cow milking knowledge of a farmer?” of course not. you ask for a gallon of milk. customers buy outcomes, not inputs. read more →

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