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delegate, partner, outsource … according to plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n by penny breslin<\/i> back office support for the accounting firm defines you and your firm. are you servicing clients who are part of the past, or are you servicing clients living into the future? remember the new generation of business owners has never owned a filing cabinet, fax machine, landline, printer and turntables (only if they are into retro music!).<\/p>\n more: <\/b>what do you want advisory services to be?<\/a> | meet the new bos<\/a> | why ai is not the enemy<\/a> the diagram above is how i think about \u201cadvisory services.\u201d the traditional role of an accountant has been as steward and operator. if you\u2019re happy there, then that\u2019s ok, this post will help you streamline your processes and technology to deliver these services more efficiently and profitably. and if you want to move into higher valued (and higher paying!) work and play a role in transforming your clients\u2019 businesses, and play the role of strategist and catalyst, then we\u2019ll show you how. making this change means committing to doing almost everything differently. yes, change is hard, but tell that to the dinosaurs who didn\u2019t survive the changes to their environment! i can tell you that if you keep doing what you\u2019ve been doing, you\u2019ll end up like those dinosaurs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n “apps are not the answer, the relationship and talking to the client is.” \u2013 mike chawner, cpa<\/p><\/blockquote>\n let\u2019s examine the core competencies of an accounting firm. the first thing that comes to mind is taxes. we all depend on well trained, educated tax preparers to take on the onus of tax return preparation. whether you\u2019re a business or personal tax client, your preparer requires all the financial documents related to the business or individual for the year. those source documents are then used to create a tax return. the tax preparer\u2019s specialized knowledge is key here. that knowledge allows the firm to prepare tax returns quickly, efficiently and to the maximum tax benefit.<\/p>\n this specialized knowledge, core competency and trusted advisor status places the accounting firm in a unique position to utilize new technologies and to reinvent itself as a real-time managerial accounting office. many firms struggle to achieve this. just adding bos services to your website along with a portal is not enough. that\u2019s just window dressing. reinventing your firm requires making changes to your processes, your back office systems \u2013 and possibly your firm\u2019s culture.<\/p>\n to achieve this transition, the accounting firm needs to ask the following:<\/p>\n focusing on what you like most leads you to what you do best and then to the best clients who need those services. finding a client and then attempting to work their needs into your abilities leads to disappointment for both parties.<\/p>\n partner with a firm that specializes in what you don\u2019t want to do<\/strong><\/p>\n recently we had a zoom call between a client firm in texas and our chennai office. at the end of the meeting, i asked one of the partners about another person who worked with them and had contacted us about some outsourced tax work. he okayed us to do that as it was a separate function and the gentleman in question only worked with them on special projects. he did mention that the young man was very focused on learning all the apps and felt overwhelmed. the partner told him to let my team at moneypenny run the apps and make suggestions on future ones. over several years of working with us, this partner had learned that he made a profit when he focused on his relationship with the client and spoke with the client. he never made a profit on running the apps. the apps and my outsource team gave him the time and information to talk to clients.<\/p>\n what are you doing versus what do you want to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n for anything you marked stop, your first project is to figure out how to get rid of that work. partner with another cpa or bookkeeper? sell those clients? whatever you don\u2019t want, someone else will.<\/p>\n what do you need to do differently?<\/strong><\/p>\n managing and delegation<\/strong><\/p>\n do you have an onboarding process for new clients?<\/strong><\/p>\n i gave this assignment to a group of partners at a workshop. there were 90 people from 70 firms in that workshop. as a group, they were to write down the process to onboard a new incoming client. not one of the partners knew what happened once a client signed the engagement letter. while they did not know<\/strong> what happened, they were confident that, regardless, it was an inconsistent experience each time.<\/p>\n first impressions are important for setting the parameters of a new client relationship and the expectations on both sides. the fastest growing firms have a clearly defined process for onboarding new clients that starts well before the engagement letter is signed. besides establishing the methods for communication and for sharing information, an onboarding process that starts before the engagement letter is signed is also an opportunity to make sure that a new client will be a good fit for the firm.<\/p>\n
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