monday, oct. 19: moving beyond budgeting to operational forecasting:

player

learn rolling forecasts, driver-based planning, and operational planning.
with steve player, founder and implementation director, the player group
monday, oct. 19, 1 pm et
4 hours, 4 cpe
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participants will learn to move beyond budgeting into rolling forecasts, driver-based planning, and operational planning—all needed to provide more future visibility and change finance’s role from reactive to proactive and strategic.

replay: how to dazzle clients in the covid age

卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 expert contributor shows how to make more money with the clients you already.

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eileen j. kennedy, ceo of the kennedy factor, demonstrates how to create a consistent, exceptional, customized, and memorable client experience in the age of the coronavirus.

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you can thrive for years to come – if you take the covid crisis as a call to reinvent your practice, kennedy tells attendees of the free 30-minute flash briefing aired live by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.

> hit “play” to stream the podcast or download it here

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11 ways to keep the family business on track

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mixing family and business can be hazardous.

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matt rampe

by matt rampe
rampe consulting

thinking of going into business with a family member? or maybe you already made the plunge? that’s what i did recently after many years happily employed by non-family members.

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for years i have assisted family-owned businesses as a professional service provider, and i’ve seen up close the many ways in which families can become dysfunctional around money and business. somehow that still didn’t stop me from recently joining my wife, kristen rampe, in our business, rampe consulting, where we help small and midsized accounting firms with practice management and leadership development.
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five steps to firm transformation

clients will be open to new pricing if they see the benefits.

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growth is one thing, transformation another.

growth is good. it’s what most cpa firms want: growth in clientele. growth in revenue. growth in profit.

marketing efforts tend to engender growth. but it’s an incremental growth – a new client, then another, then a new service, then a bump in revenue.

transformation is more than that. it engenders exponential growth – a host of new clients, a whole new set of services, a local reach rendered regional.
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covid is calling

eileen j kennedy
eileen j. kennedy

…calling you—to reinvent your firm. now.

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you may be missing a rare appearance of opportunity in the pandemic that’s stymying everyone else, says eileen j. kennedy in a new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 30-minute flash briefing.

play the video or download the podcast: how to dazzle clients in the covid age: creating customized client experiences

in “creating customized client experiences in the age of covid-19,” kennedy rolls out a host of ideas and insights to use the pandemic to: read more →

software saves the 2020 tax season

survey says tax practitioners have never been so satisfied with their tax prep applications.

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what’s the best word to describe the infamous 2020 tax season?

brutal? infectious? interesting? perpetual? weird?

one word works for everybody: unprecedented. a pandemic. a lockdown. new legislation. new rules. federal programs. federal disasters. bankruptcies.

it seems the only thing that’s gone right is software.

the bottom line: tax practitioners have never been more satisfied with their tax apps.

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value + pricing = value pricing

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some 64% of cpas say one of the chief benefits of value pricing is “transparency.” (aicpa)

automation is a key part of the process.

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matching pricing (what an accounting firm figures it can charge) with value (what a client things a service is worth) is always a challenge. a firm may think its capability in compliance is worth a lot, but if the client has nothing to comply with, it puts no value on compliance services.

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so the question is: what does a given client or potential client value?
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opportunities in common and uncommon services

bar chartwhat do your clients want that your competition doesn’t offer?

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virtually every cpa firm faces two common challenges:

  • get the work done.
  • find more work.

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or, to put it another way:

  • satisfy clients.
  • find more clients.

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cloudy forecasts call for rainmaking

have you assessed your clients’ needs, or just provided what they asked for?

the average monthly price paid for accounting services: clients who do not receive advisory services pay their firms an average of $1,108 a month. they’d be happy to pay $564 more.

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rainmaker alert! the cloudy skies of 2020 show a good chance of precipitation.

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but praying for rain isn’t going to work. neither will a rain dance. the most effective action is often simply a matter of asking and offering.

a new survey of small and midsized businesses and their cpa firms finds that clients are generally willing to pay 50 percent or more for additional accounting-related advisory services … but only if their accounting firm offers them.

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clients want to pay you more (really!)

new research shows opportunities to boost revenues by up to 31%.

what clients want: adding strategic advisory services to your tax prep and payroll bundle could increase fee income by more than 48 percent. (cpa.com)

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as cpas know better than anyone, these are turbulent times. whatever the situation was, it just changed. cpas know because they are at the center of it all — the calm, analytic eye at the center of hurricane upheaval.

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so consider for a moment the desperation of the businesses that are or could be your clients. they are suffering:

  • the financial and logistical onslaught of the pandemic,
  • the ever-evolving rules on taxation,
  • the constant change in compliance,
  • the lack of time for issues not within their core business (accounting, for example),
  • the problems and insecurities of their own clients and customers, and
  • concerns about the future.

in other words, clients have more important things to do than keep track of financial matters.

and they’re willing to pay for the freedom to stick to their core business.

the trick…

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the forecast: partly gloomy, chance of doom

almost three in four accountants now foresee a deeper downturn for the u.s. economy.

it gets worse: almost 25 percent of accountants forecast a “much worse” outlook for the nation’s economy over the next 12 to 18 months. and another 48 percent predict “somewhat worse.” (卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research)

busy season barometer:
how accountants are battling the coronavirus recession
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new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 2020 busy season barometer results bear bad tidings for cpa firms, their clients, and their families. the forecast is not good. accountants know numbers, and the numbers they are seeing do not bode well.

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as the u.s. braces for a summer surge in coronavirus infections, the economy is crashing – with gdp down at an annual rate of 33 percent last quarter, and a 10 percent drop from the first quarter – the worst declines in more than 70 years of record-keeping. and new jobless claims in the latest week rose by 867,000 to 17 million.

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busy season benchmarks in free fall

major declines in all kpis: clients, revenues, profits, revenue per client, and profit per client.

busy season barometer:
how accountants are battling the coronavirus recession
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by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

last year’s busy season was complicated, no doubt about it. the tax cuts and jobs act and the irs shut-down made life difficult for tax practitioners. but ultimately, they had a good year. a good 56 percent enjoyed an increase in clientele, and only 16 percent saw a decrease.

flash forward to the annus horribilis, aka 2020. according to this year’s 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer, only 46 percent of accountants are gaining clients — a 10-point reversal from last year. and another 25 percent are losing clients – a 15-point swing from 2019.

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it’s impressive that so many tax offices have actually expanded their clientele during such hard times. and it’s not surprising that so many have lost clients.

what happened?

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