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13 succession plan requirements

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time to retire clock facemake sure you’re not growing your own competition.

by bill reeb and dominic cingoranelli
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 / succession institute

there are various sections that should be included in any succession plan. we are not going to present you with a sample succession plan, but even better, to describe topic areas you should address in your plan.

more on performance management: base retirement on today’s operations | who decides what? | how involved should retired owners be? | how to find a partner’s replacement | best practices for mandatory retirement | 7 succession questions to ignore for now | the pitfalls of equity allocation and reallocation

as always, there are various best practices to consider as you put your plan together. for any succession plan to work, you have to start with consideration of the business model you use:
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who decides what?

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businessman looking thoughtfulyou need to ponder some questions before you answer.

by bill reeb and dominic cingoranelli
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 / succession institute

everywhere you turn, you overhear someone talking about, being asked about the status of, or referring to their need to develop, a succession plan.

more on performance management: how retired partners are robbing their own firms | how involved should retired owners be? | how to find a partner’s replacement | action plans for transitioning partners | how retirement issues affect succession planning | succession: the questions to care about | 7 succession questions to ignore for now | cpa firm performance assessments: 15 core competencies, 21 questions

as a matter of fact, for the past 12 years through surveys with the aicpa, we have been asking firms to share with us whether or not they have a succession plan in place.

when you consider the responses to this question from the pcps succession institute succession management surveys conducted in 2008 and 2012, clearly more and more firms are:

  • getting their act together,
  • documenting their succession management strategy and
  • thinking through the ramifications of retiring one or more senior owners.

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how retired partners are robbing their own firms

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masked man carrying large money bagif you don’t set policies and enforce retirement deals, your firm could become a financial hostage.

by bill reeb and dominic cingoranelli

as many as 30 percent of firms pay more to retiring partners than they initially agreed, according to our succession survey.

more on performance management for pro members: how involved should retired owners be? | firms say what would change retirement pay | action plans for transitioning partners | how retirement issues affect succession planning | how partner ratings factor into equity | develop your employees or suffer the consequences | what having your employees’ backs means | do cpa firms need management or leadership? |  job 1 for the practice owner: client management

here’s why.

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strong industry growth fuels wage and retention issues for firms

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as growth breeds competition, job-seekers gain the upper hand.

what drives staff turnover?
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by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间

the nation’s tax and accounting firms are enjoying one of their most prolonged periods of growth since 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 started keeping track with the careers and hiring outlook survey 15 years ago, but pressures are building in staff retention and compensation.

this month’s 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 jobs report covers:

  • current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, tax, payroll and cpa segments of the industry.
  • average hourly wages for key segments.
  • typical hours worked per week.
  • and trends concerning women in the accounting workforce.

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4 ways to create more capacity

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purple no. 4 billiard ballconsider creating two classes of partners.

by bill reeb and dominic cingoranelli
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 / succession institute

when partners plan to retire, how do we go about creating additional capacity or freeing up the necessary capacity to handle the client transitions that need to occur?

more on performance management: partner retirement and the war for clients | succession: the questions to care about | 7 succession questions to ignore for now | develop your employees or suffer the consequences | what having your employees’ backs means | 5 harmful management attitudes (and how to fix them) | job 1 for the practice owner: client management

first, all of the “c” clients, which is our shorthand way of describing the smallest clients the firm serves – who while profitable, don’t have much opportunity to hire us for additional services – should not be transitioned to partners, but rather to managers.
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how to find a partner’s replacement

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man choosing someone's face from a photo arrayshould you add a partner … or capacity? they’re not the same thing.

by bill reeb and dominic cingoranelli
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 / succession institute

let’s assume you have a retiring partner. you have decided how to pay the partner for his/her value in the firm, you have pinned down the mandatory sale of ownership date (mso) so you can phase that partner out of his or her leadership role in the firm, and you have covered the single most abused part of the succession process, which is client transition. it is now time to discuss how to find replacements for the retiring senior partners.

more on performance management: action plans for transitioning partners | partner retirement and the war for clients | succession: the questions to care about | the pitfalls of equity allocation and reallocation | cpa firm performance assessments: 15 core competencies, 21 questions | how to target what skills to develop now

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the most commonly asked question on this topic is “how can we find people with the same technical skills, management ability, client service capacity and vision for the firm’s future as those who are leaving?” the simple answer is “you won’t, so stop looking for that exact combination.”
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action plans for transitioning partners

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four people meeting for business lunchthe transition process is about making the retiring partner less attractive as the client’s first point of contact.

by bill reeb and dominic cingoranelli
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 / succession institute

the key to the client transition process is the action plan that the transitioning partner needs to follow for each client.

more on performance management: partner retirement and the war for clients | how retirement issues affect succession planning | 7 succession questions to ignore for now | the pitfalls of equity allocation and reallocation | how to target what skills to develop now | job 1 for the practice owner: client management

for a small tax client, the directive could be as simple as a one-year transition and turning it over to whoever has been assigned to take over that account. for example, the action plan might be something like:

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best practices for client transition

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man watching handshake between two womenimproper transitions can lead to reduced retirement benefits.

by bill reeb and dominic cingoranelli
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 / succession institute

when a partner is retiring, there is a transition process that we recommend. let’s break it down into a few simple steps:

more on performance management: how client transition is abused | best practices for mandatory retirement | how retirement issues affect succession planning | succession: the questions to care about | 7 succession questions to ignore for now | how partner ratings factor into equity | hazards of not reallocating equity | the pitfalls of equity allocation and reallocation | develop your employees or suffer the consequences | cpa firm performance assessments: 15 core competencies, 21 questions | how to target what skills to develop now | what having your employees’ backs means | 5 harmful management attitudes (and how to fix them) | do cpa firms need management or leadership? |  job 1 for the practice owner: client management

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accounting industry expands at 5% annual rate

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cpatrendlines jobs report tiltpayroll agency hiring surges. wage growth slows at cpa firms.

who’s hiring? who’s not?
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the u.s. tax, accounting and bookkeeping industries are turning out to be one of the brightest spots in the nation’s economy, growing at about 5 percent a year, with payroll agencies now turning in the strongest performance.

wage growth, on the other hand, is showing signs of slowing down.

this month’s 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 jobs report covers:

  • current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, tax, payroll and cpa segments of the industry.
  • average hourly wages for key segments.
  • typical hours worked per week.
  • and trends concerning women in the accounting workforce.

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partner retirement and the war for clients

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retirement plan label on folderbonus checklist: 8 best uses for a retiring partner.

by bill reeb and dominic cingoranelli
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 / succession institute

once a firm is ready to phase out a partner in retirement, it’s time to move on to the client transition process. but this is the single most abused part of the entire succession process.

more on performance management: best practices for mandatory retirement | how retirement issues affect succession planning | 7 succession questions to ignore for now | how partner ratings factor into equity | the pitfalls of equity allocation and reallocation | cpa firm performance assessments: 15 core competencies, 21 questions | what having your employees’ backs means | 5 harmful management attitudes (and how to fix them)

the reason why this part of the process is the most abused is because both sides – the partner nearing mso (henceforth referred to as retiring partners or retired partners) and the remaining partners – are motivated to do the wrong things. for example, it is in the best interest of retiring partners to not transition their clients because if they don’t, the firm will need to keep them around to continue to work on them after mso. if this isn’t bad enough, because they did not transition their clients properly, the retired partners have a great deal of leverage since they are now entitled to their full retirement pay and still have control over some or most of their client base. this allows the retired partners to gain additional benefits from the partner group by basically reselling their clients to them again. unfortunately, this situation is more the norm than the exception.
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