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by marc rosenberg
cpa firm mergers: your complete guide
as a generation of aging baby boomer partners marches towards retirement, thousands of firms are seeking the only exit strategy available to them – merge into another firm. thus has a voracious appetite for mergers been created at all size levels, particularly:
- sellers who are sole practitioners (remember, 30,000 of the s.’s 45,000 cpa firms are solos and a huge percentage of those are at an advanced age) and multi-partner firms under $2 million
- buyers with annual revenues of $3 million and larger