{"id":49035,"date":"2016-05-26t10:38:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-26t14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/48e130086c.nxcli.net\/?p=49035"},"modified":"2016-06-02t11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02t15:46:41","slug":"koltin-back-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"back to the future: 30 years of change in the profession"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"businessenduring factors: the talent of our professionals in delivering value to our clients.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"click<\/a>
click to read\u00a01988 report<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by allan koltin<\/em>
\n
koltin.com<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

recently my clients, tony frabotta and rick david of uhy advisors, forwarded to me the summer 1988 issue of the pdi report<\/em>. tongue in cheek, they said to me they were surprised to see that there was another allan koltin who also did consulting to the accounting profession. (needless to say, they were poking fun at me based on my 1988 photo versus how i appear today!)<\/p>\n

this issue of the pdi report<\/em> was not just any issue; it was an issue in which we gathered together the country\u2019s leading consultants (similar to how i participate in the advisory board and new horizons group today) and aired their views on the profession and industry trends through what was then called the first annual consultants roundtable.<\/p>\n

some of the issues discussed almost three decades ago are still what we talk about today, including: industry specialization, quality service, the importance of great leadership and management, value billing, and the significance of having a firm vision, mission and core values.<\/p>\n

it\u2019s also interesting that back then a mid-sized firm was defined as a firm with $1 million to $10 million in revenues, whereas today a mid-sized firm probably would start at $10 million and potentially go up to $36 million (the cutoff point for being a top 100 firm).<\/p>\n

that being said, the following are items that have completely changed since that time or weren\u2019t even on the table for discussion: read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"businessenduring factors: the talent of our professionals in delivering value to our clients.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"click<\/a>
click to read\u00a01988 report<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by allan koltin<\/em>
\n
koltin.com<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

recently my clients, tony frabotta and rick david of uhy advisors, forwarded to me the summer 1988 issue of the pdi report<\/em>. tongue in cheek, they said to me they were surprised to see that there was another allan koltin who also did consulting to the accounting profession. (needless to say, they were poking fun at me based on my 1988 photo versus how i appear today!)<\/p>\n

this issue of the pdi report<\/em> was not just any issue; it was an issue in which we gathered together the country\u2019s leading consultants (similar to how i participate in the advisory board and new horizons group today) and aired their views on the profession and industry trends through what was then called the first annual consultants roundtable.<\/p>\n

some of the issues discussed almost three decades ago are still what we talk about today, including: industry specialization, quality service, the importance of great leadership and management, value billing, and the significance of having a firm vision, mission and core values.<\/p>\n

it\u2019s also interesting that back then a mid-sized firm was defined as a firm with $1 million to $10 million in revenues, whereas today a mid-sized firm probably would start at $10 million and potentially go up to $36 million (the cutoff point for being a top 100 firm).<\/p>\n

that being said, the following are items that have completely changed since that time or weren\u2019t even on the table for discussion: read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1359,"featured_media":42258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outlook","category-pro-member-exclusive","membership-content","access-restricted"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nback to the future: 30 years of change in the profession - 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"actionable intelligence for tax, accounting, and financial professionals\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_us\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"back to the future: 30 years of change in the profession - 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"actionable intelligence for tax, accounting, and financial professionals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cpatrendlines\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-05-26t14:38:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-06-02t15:46:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"313\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"allan d. koltin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpa_trendlines\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpa_trendlines\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"allan d. koltin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"10 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"article\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#article\",\"ispartof\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"allan d. koltin\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dc02297cbb014855be15f65d83339c8f\"},\"headline\":\"back to the future: 30 years of change in the profession\",\"datepublished\":\"2016-05-26t14:38:07+00:00\",\"datemodified\":\"2016-06-02t15:46:41+00:00\",\"mainentityofpage\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/\"},\"wordcount\":2017,\"commentcount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailurl\":\"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin.png\",\"articlesection\":[\"outlook & analysis\",\"pro member exclusive\"],\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\",\"potentialaction\":[{\"@type\":\"commentaction\",\"name\":\"comment\",\"target\":[\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"webpage\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/\",\"url\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/\",\"name\":\"back to the future: 30 years of change in the profession - 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间\",\"ispartof\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#website\"},\"primaryimageofpage\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailurl\":\"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin.png\",\"datepublished\":\"2016-05-26t14:38:07+00:00\",\"datemodified\":\"2016-06-02t15:46:41+00:00\",\"description\":\"actionable intelligence for tax, accounting, and financial professionals\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\",\"potentialaction\":[{\"@type\":\"readaction\",\"target\":[\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"imageobject\",\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin.png\",\"contenturl\":\"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin.png\",\"width\":250,\"height\":313,\"caption\":\"koltin\"},{\"@type\":\"breadcrumblist\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemlistelement\":[{\"@type\":\"listitem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"home\",\"item\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"listitem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"outlook & analysis\",\"item\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/category\/outlook\/\"},{\"@type\":\"listitem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"back to the future: 30 years of change in the profession\"}]},{\"@type\":\"website\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/\",\"name\":\"卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间\",\"description\":\"actionable intelligence for the tax, accounting and finance community\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialaction\":[{\"@type\":\"searchaction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"entrypoint\",\"urltemplate\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"propertyvaluespecification\",\"valuerequired\":true,\"valuename\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\"},{\"@type\":\"organization\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research\",\"alternatename\":\"cpatrendlines\",\"url\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"imageobject\",\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cpat-header-logo-with-blurb-7118_cpat_masthead-copy.jpg\",\"contenturl\":\"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cpat-header-logo-with-blurb-7118_cpat_masthead-copy.jpg\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":350,\"caption\":\"卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameas\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cpatrendlines\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/cpa_trendlines\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/115382\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/cpatrendlines\"]},{\"@type\":\"person\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dc02297cbb014855be15f65d83339c8f\",\"name\":\"allan d. koltin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"imageobject\",\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin-100x100.png\",\"contenturl\":\"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin-100x100.png\",\"caption\":\"allan d. koltin\"},\"description\":\"allan d. koltin, cpa, is ceo of the koltin consulting group.\",\"url\":\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/author\/allan-koltin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ yoast seo plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"back to the future: 30 years of change in the profession - 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间","description":"actionable intelligence for tax, accounting, and financial professionals","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/","og_locale":"en_us","og_type":"article","og_title":"back to the future: 30 years of change in the profession - 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间","og_description":"actionable intelligence for tax, accounting, and financial professionals","og_url":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/","og_site_name":"卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cpatrendlines","article_published_time":"2016-05-26t14:38:07+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-06-02t15:46:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":250,"height":313,"url":"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"allan d. koltin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@cpa_trendlines","twitter_site":"@cpa_trendlines","twitter_misc":{"written by":"allan d. koltin","est. reading time":"10 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"article","@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#article","ispartof":{"@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/"},"author":{"name":"allan d. koltin","@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dc02297cbb014855be15f65d83339c8f"},"headline":"back to the future: 30 years of change in the profession","datepublished":"2016-05-26t14:38:07+00:00","datemodified":"2016-06-02t15:46:41+00:00","mainentityofpage":{"@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/"},"wordcount":2017,"commentcount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailurl":"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin.png","articlesection":["outlook & analysis","pro member exclusive"],"inlanguage":"en-us","potentialaction":[{"@type":"commentaction","name":"comment","target":["\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"webpage","@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/","url":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/","name":"back to the future: 30 years of change in the profession - 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间","ispartof":{"@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#website"},"primaryimageofpage":{"@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailurl":"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin.png","datepublished":"2016-05-26t14:38:07+00:00","datemodified":"2016-06-02t15:46:41+00:00","description":"actionable intelligence for tax, accounting, and financial professionals","breadcrumb":{"@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#breadcrumb"},"inlanguage":"en-us","potentialaction":[{"@type":"readaction","target":["\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/"]}]},{"@type":"imageobject","inlanguage":"en-us","@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin.png","contenturl":"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin.png","width":250,"height":313,"caption":"koltin"},{"@type":"breadcrumblist","@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2016\/05\/26\/koltin-back-to-the-future\/#breadcrumb","itemlistelement":[{"@type":"listitem","position":1,"name":"home","item":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/"},{"@type":"listitem","position":2,"name":"outlook & analysis","item":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/category\/outlook\/"},{"@type":"listitem","position":3,"name":"back to the future: 30 years of change in the profession"}]},{"@type":"website","@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#website","url":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/","name":"卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间","description":"actionable intelligence for the tax, accounting and finance community","publisher":{"@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#organization"},"potentialaction":[{"@type":"searchaction","target":{"@type":"entrypoint","urltemplate":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"propertyvaluespecification","valuerequired":true,"valuename":"search_term_string"}}],"inlanguage":"en-us"},{"@type":"organization","@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#organization","name":"卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research","alternatename":"cpatrendlines","url":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/","logo":{"@type":"imageobject","inlanguage":"en-us","@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cpat-header-logo-with-blurb-7118_cpat_masthead-copy.jpg","contenturl":"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cpat-header-logo-with-blurb-7118_cpat_masthead-copy.jpg","width":1600,"height":350,"caption":"卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research"},"image":{"@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameas":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cpatrendlines","https:\/\/x.com\/cpa_trendlines","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/115382\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/cpatrendlines"]},{"@type":"person","@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dc02297cbb014855be15f65d83339c8f","name":"allan d. koltin","image":{"@type":"imageobject","inlanguage":"en-us","@id":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin-100x100.png","contenturl":"https:\/\/cpatwpe.s3.amazonaws.com\/cpatrendlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koltin-100x100.png","caption":"allan d. koltin"},"description":"allan d. koltin, cpa, is ceo of the koltin consulting group.","url":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/author\/allan-koltin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49035","targethints":{"allow":["get"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}