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that oncoming train is blockchain accounting

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old steam train pulling into a tunnel belching steam and smokebut you can ride it to the new destiny of your practice.

by hitendra patil

warning: this is not fiction. this is not sci-fi.

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when the best brains in the payments systems and regulatory organizations across the world sit and take serious note of the possible impact of blockchain on the entire financial sector, the accounting and tax profession cannot afford to ignore blockchain.
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how to beat automation in accounting

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classic drawing/puzzlefour frustrations … and which one to focus on.

by hitendra patil

do you see an old lady or a young lady or both?

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according to brainbashers.com, this image appeared in a 1915 edition of the puck.
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how to fly the automation dragon to your dream practice

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the 11-step plan to winning the war against accounting “bots.” 

by hitendra patil
accountaneur

like a snowball rolling down a hill, the fear that automation and artificial intelligence will replace accountants with robots is rapidly gaining mass and momentum in the accounting profession.

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but accounting is one profession that has always adapted to technological and regulatory evolution over a long period. i am sure accountants will ride the new, so-called fire-spitting-jobs-guzzling automation dragon within no time.

but first, let’s think about the underground shift that will happen because of the automation in accounting. why will automation mean more business for accountants?

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forget value billing. focus on value building

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bhansali

finding new profits in client accounting services.

by chandra bhansali
ceo, accountantsworld

we have all heard a lot of buzz about value billing. it sounds like a great concept to boost a firm’s bottom line, but have you tried it. chances are you haven’t.

why not? because although it is a great theoretical concept, it’s too complex to implement.  and there are various reasons why it is hard to implement in accounting practices.

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3 reasons small firms stay small

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woman in home office looking at paperwork in front of computerplus 5 common situations. do you see yourself?

by hitendra patil
accountaneur

when firms want to grow but can’t, the problem is neither economy nor resources.

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  1. there are firms that do not want to grow. as long as it is by conscious, purposeful choice, it is a decision well respected.
  2. there are firms that believe that they cannot grow beyond what they have already achieved.
  3. then there are firms that want to grow but struggle to break the shackles of being where they are now.

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how job titles can rebrand your firm

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hitendra patil: "changing job titles to something more relevantly expressive can help rebrand your firm and even differentiate it competitively."new titles can attract more clients, talent and social visibility.

by hitendra patil
accountaneur

i read with interest ed mendlowitz’s recent post “what’s in a title?”

i wondered:

  1. why are the job titles in accounting firms what they are?
  2. how did they come into existence?
  3. what was the purpose of designing the job titles currently in vogue across the accounting profession?

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most likely, it is industry practice that creates the sameness in job titles. ironically, management gurus tell us to differentiate, yet we resort to sameness!
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your clients hold a secret key to your practice growth

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chart of survey results
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only you can discover it. here’s how.

by hitendra patil
accountaneur 

accountants are in the business of solving clients’ problems.

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the results of the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间’ “essential traits for success as an entrepreneurial accountant” survey clearly indicate that “problem solving” is one of the top three traits of successful accountants. join the survey, get the results.
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forget cpe, you need an fpe

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business hand holding hot chart in crystal ballan executive whose entire job is to predict the future?

by hitendra patil
client accounting services

do you want to know the future of accounting?

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business insider recently published a post stating ford has an executive whose entire job is to predict the future.
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outlook 2016: change catches up with auditors

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2016-roundtable-outlook-for-rosenberg-map-commentary-vf-240x219new technology is only part of the movement.

they say “past results are no indication of future performance.” maybe. maybe not. but if anyone should know, it’s our panel of experts, their comments drawn from the new edition of the rosenberg map survey. these are their bullet points and comments, verbatim, looking back at the last 12 months and looking ahead to 2016. – rick telberg, ceo

by gale crosley
crosley company

lessons from 2015:

over the past year, i’ve noticed smaller firms engaged in acquiring firms yet smaller than them. they’ve observed larger firms mastering merger integration, and are now taking the plunge.

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how small firms can use value pricing

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two businesswomen meeting in an officestep 1: know what your customer values.

by michelle long and sandi leyva
the ultimate accounting virtual conference

value pricing is commonly used with consultants in large firms, but how do we apply it to the very small firms?

what is value pricing? it’s a special type of pricing method that is highly misunderstood in this industry. a lot of people, when they go up on their price, they call it value pricing and that’s not correct. value pricing has nothing to do with cost, it has nothing to do with time or market; it has to do with what the customer vales. that is the only input that goes into value pricing: what the customer values. there is no relation to cost.

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value pricing is hard because you have to know what the customer values. you have to be really good at putting yourself in the client’s shoes in order to do value pricing. now let me talk about different pricing methods briefly because i think that will help you a little bit.

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