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aynsley damery: adding value is the only way to stay in business

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rethink the 80:20 rule, because the 80% are likely stealing from you.

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aynsley damery wants accountants to think more deeply about their work. the ceo for clarity said we need to think about what clients want and deliver it to them, but as simple as that sounds, the problem is he doesn’t “think many accountants truly understand what their clients are looking for.” clients who have started their own businesses are looking for a combination of “money, time and freedom.” however, damery said, we’re selling them dashboards, kpis and cash flow forecasting without explaining why that’s important and what that’s going to do for them. “clients are looking for an advisor who’s going to listen to me, understand my hopes, my fears, my vision, what the challenges are, and be able to be there to support me,” damery said.

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“our clients don’t understand numbers, yet we give them plans with the numbers, and … it doesn’t help,” he said. instead, damery said cpas need to help them understand what they need to do “to make a difference and move their business forward. and that’s not about giving them the answers. that’s about asking the right questions.”

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yes, technology disrupts – but for the better

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hitendra patil: celebrate the pandemic’s silver lining.

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technology is disrupting the profession, but for the good.

hitendra patil, cpa, long the head of customer success at accountantsworld by iris and an independent advisor, says that the silver lining of the pandemic is that it forced accountants to move to the cloud and to develop distributed labor models–changes that are here to stay.

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“we can’t fight the rapid technological changes – we can only leverage them to provide better service and insights to our clients,” patil said. “technology puts advisory services within the financial reach of more small business owners. but the superpower that accountants still have is the ability to connect our clients’ goals and aspirations with what’s happening in accounting,” he added, saying that it enables conversations on a higher level. “instead of pestering them for bank statements and receipts, we can ask about trends we see in the financials,” patil said.

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yes, you can work less and make more

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erik solbakken: build the firm of your dreams.

 

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q: why did the accountant cross the road?

a: because they did it last year.

erik solbakken, a.k.a. “the heavy metal cpa,” is on a mission to free accountants from an oppressive business model. solbakken spent 18 years working his way up to be a partner in a firm in canada, but when the partnership fell apart, he was liberated to create a new kind of firm, where he and his staff never worked overtime and he made more money. today, he acts as the guide he wishes he’d had when he started out, empowering accountants to create firms they love working in.

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how do you get away from the commoditization trap? simple, deliver to the client the transformation that they want for themselves.

solbakken said the profession has brainwashed us into believing three lies:

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hitendra patil: no new tech. no new growth.

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technology is disrupting the profession, but for the better.

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the silver lining of the pandemic is that it forced accountants to move to the cloud and to develop distributed labor models, changes that are here to stay, hitendra patil, author of client accounting services: the definitive success guide, tells cpa trendines in the latest episode of the disruptors.

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we can’t fight the rapid technological changes – we can only leverage them to provide better service and insights to our clients, patil says.

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donny shimamoto: future firm growth requires a mindshift

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we can’t keep going the way we’re going.

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donny shimamoto, cpa.citp, cgma, says that one of the covid pandemic’s benefits is accelerating technology adoption.

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with the ongoing talent crunch, technology is one of the ways firms can get the work done with fewer people, as firm owners seek to create a sustainable balance “because we can’t keep going the way that we’re going.”

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jennifer wilson: empower young workers to build the firm everyone loves

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jennifer wilson: wanna grow? employ the 10% x three rule

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jennifer wilson has been advising and coaching firms on better ways to run their firms for years, so she has had an inside view of how firms perform well or perform badly. wilson said that building a sustainable firm that attracts and retains the best people and that the younger generation wants to own will require changes from how many traditional firms have operated.

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though firms quickly switched to remote work at the pandemic’s peak to create a culture of “anytime, anywhere work,” many are now moving backward. some firms are giving wishy-washy messages about returning to the office, which makes remote team members feel they have little chance of promotion. “smart firms are not rolling backward right now,” wilson said. they are finding ways to do “mass customization and personalization of schedules and workplaces” to make everything work for team members, work for clients and work for the firm.

this may mean making tough decisions to let clients or underperforming staff go.

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mike whitmire: re-think your hiring and training practices

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the disruptors: training can triumph over textbooks in the talent wars. 

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mike whitmire wants to transform the role of accountants in industry from mere counting beans (though that’s not a bad skill to have) to an operational role that leverages accountant’s knowledge of company finances and operations to drive efficiency throughout an entire organization.

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whitmire, ceo, and co-founder of accounting software company floqast, inc., knows a thing or two about talent acquisition and development. before founding floqast, he managed the accounting team at cornerstone ondemand, a saas company in los angeles.

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ed kless: clients don’t want outputs. they want outcomes

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the disruptors: too busy? raise your prices.

 

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what do clients – or, as ed kless prefers, customers – want from their accountants? it’s not the tax return or the financial statement but the outcome for the customer, which is most often peace of mind.

to remain relevant in disruptions like online tax preparation and automated bookkeeping tech firms like pilot, accountants need to consider other ancillary services they can provide above and beyond those basic services.

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“when you bill by the hour, when you have to measure your time, and when you tell the customer, ‘pay attention to my efficiency because that’s what i’m going to charge you,’ then they start looking at your efficiency instead of your effectiveness, which is the wrong thing to be looking at,” kless explained.

additionally, kless said cpas who are “too busy” need to raise their fees.

he said, “one of the mantras in pricing is innovating for growth, pricing for profit. when an organization wants to grow, the focus has to be on innovating, creating new things to offer, not necessarily what we used to be called rainmaking, which is getting more customers.”

kless maintains that accountants or cpas should strive to be the first person called, no matter what the customer wants, whether it’s super bowl tickets or a recommendation for the best medical team in an emergency. but experimenting with adding additional services or converting to a subscription-based business model will not be possible for firms that remain wedded to the timesheet, which, kess said, quoting ron baker, is cancer of the accounting profession.

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seth fineberg: your classic business model won’t allow growth

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the disruptors: billable hours – demeaning and demoralizing or useful measurement?

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anyone who has been in the accounting profession–or legal profession–for any length of time knows how revered the billable hour is. however, plenty of firms are ditching the billable hour–a move that many professionals say is long overdue.

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seth fineberg, a business journalist specializing in the accounting profession, says the billable hour can’t be a significant part of the business model of the future.

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the six pillars for fp&a transformation

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chris ortega reveals his blueprint for success.

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after years in public accounting, chris ortega decided he wanted something different.

the indianapolis native knew he wanted to be an accountant when sarbanes oxley was making headlines and accountants were in high demand. “also,” ortega said, “i always loved numbers.”

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he continued, “i started the first six years of my career in both public and corporate accounting then moved into finance and fp&a while getting my mba.”

armed with his mba in corporate finance from the university of indianapolis and a stellar resume, ortega said something was missing.

“after 17 plus years of experience in accounting, fp&a, finance and leadership, i felt there needed to be a fresh perspective on finance,” he said. “so, that is why i started fresh fp&a, which is fresh perspective on financial partnership & advising.”

and, while many business owners start with dreams and plans, ortega said his company operates with six key pillars in mind.

“think of it as the foundation of a house,” ortega explained.

those six “ps,” as ortega coined them, are:

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csr for cpas: the missing ingredient

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`transformation talks: it all starts with transparency.

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transformation talks
with donny shimamoto, cpa, citp, cgma
center for accounting transformation

accountants have the power to change the world, according to james ross, the corporate responsibility and sustainability executive for buzzacott, one of the largest accounting firms in the united kingdom, in this interview with donny shimamoto.

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“we want to walk the walk before we talk to talk,” ross says. “we don’t want to necessarily be delivering to clients something or an expectation that we’re not actually able to do ourselves. it’s just about being really honest about where you are in that process and continuing to take the next steps to improve more widely across the organization.”

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o.d. lanier: stepping into advisory

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transformation talks: a leader at one of the fastest growing firms in the country describes transforming his career, pros and cons of building versus buying and the four (or five) steps to becoming a consulting firm.

 


transformation talks
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center for accounting transformation

center for accounting transformation

how does an accounting expert journey from audit and big four to starting his own firm and becoming a consultant? odysseus (o.d.) lanier, a founding partner of one of the fastest growing firms in the country, describes his start, why he left “boring” auditing (but why it is critical experience), as well as what he sees as pros and cons in building a consulting firm versus buying a consulting firm.

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why are cpas moving from tax and audit to get into consulting? lanier said the bottom line is that consulting is lower risk with a higher margin.

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