count your passions, not your hours.
by jason blumer
blumercpas.com
did you see the video where mike rowe of the “dirty jobs” tv show was talking about the importance of work?
if not, here it is again:
mike discusses how wall street and madison avenue have helped us define work into something it is not really. this is one of my favorite ted talks.
and four simple solutions.
by rick telberg
if this is february, then it’s the season for already forgetting our new year’s resolutions. i don’t know about you, but i’ve already broken a few of them.
but there are some new year’s resolutions that we cannot afford to ignore. for accountants, here are just four. that’s right: only four. that’s all we have space for here. but each is hitched to a pervasive dilemma within the profession.
strategy 2012: leadership, pricing, competition
what are your critical challenges for 2012, and what can do you about them? a number of the profession’s leading lights have been sharing their thoughts with accounting today. here’s one:
dave sibits
cbiz financial services
accounting firms are facing:
would you buy a pulled-pork sandwich if it was priced by the hour? at aries technology, a sage software reseller, they wouldn’t recommend it. that’s why they’re going to market with an aggressive value-pricing strategy. via ariestech.com
after a conservative 3.2% price increase last year.
complete findings are published in the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 practitioner’s tax season performance review and outlook report. (learn more here)
tax and accounting practitioners are again cautiously raising prices this year, prompted by years of little or no rate hikes and continuing step-ups in labor and technology costs, according to new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 survey data.
becky klotz, the head of small local firm of tax consultants in oregon, says that, with an economy where “i don’t see much improvement in the near future,” her firm will be raising pricing, but “just a bit.”
on the other hand, wray rives at rives cpa in coppell, texas, is holding the line. “we believe we are priced at the right level for our market,” he says.
here’s how to find out.
don’t try to tell terry putney, ceo of transition advisors llc, your firm isn’t ready for value billing. in this video clip, he answers: you’re already doing it; and you’re probably doing it wrong. we caught up with putney at the cch 2011 users conference.
see ron baker’s comment below. read more →
preliminary results show downward pressure on rates and fees as much as 12% in some areas. 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 is working with intuit to track the trends. “this is the first time we’ve seen downward pressure since 2005 when we started … continued
kurt siemers is the ceo of kennedy & coe, the first top 100 cpa firm to implement value pricing. here he describes what inspired him to…
it depends… top billing rates average $319 for partners at firms grossing over $10 million a year, according to the latest aicpa/pcps map survey, down to $115 per hour for partners at firms grossing les than $200,000 a year. the … continued
as busy season gets off to slow start. by rick telberg with the irs playing catch-up and a client base still feeling the pressures of the great recession, tax practitioners in the latest 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 survey are reporting a marked … continued
the one mistake too many cpa firms are making. [youtube]fdvmzgw20mw[/youtube] michelle golden, marketing consultant and author of the new and essential “social media strategies for professionals and their firms,” explains the one simple mistake that many firms make when entering … continued
tougher clients take tough positions. by the corporate executive board the most successful client companies have taken a stronger line with audit fee negotiation in the past year but without jeopardizing good auditor relationships. they succeed by being open and … continued
live from the thomson reuters user conference greg lafollette reports new survey data from thomson that shows four in 10 firms suffered revenue declnes last year. the average accounting firm’s revenues grew 1.2%. but the growth was uneven: 40% saw … continued