engagement letters require what and when

woman holding paper at deskit’s no less true for cas than for anything else.

by hitendra patil
client accounting services: the definitive success guide

“people think of us (accountants) as the compliance agents – the necessary evil.”

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this sentence haunts me even today, after hearing it nearly 15 years ago from a multi-award-winning, highly experienced cpa.

perception!
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four reasons to fear a merger

purple no. 4 billiard balland eight ways to tell that one was successful.

by marc rosenberg
cpa firm mergers: your complete guide

as a generation of aging baby boomer partners continues its relentless march toward retirement, thousands of firms are seeking the only exit strategy available to them: merge into another firm.

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thus has a voracious appetite for mergers been created at all size levels, particularly:

  • sellers who are very small firms – sole practitioners (remember, 30,000 of the u.s.’s 44,000 cpa firms are solos, and a huge percentage of those are at an advanced age) and multipartner firms under $3 million
  • buyers with annual revenues of $3 million and larger

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six benefits of family offices

jason zayon, a partner in the business management & family office group at armanino llp,
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why the ultra-wealthy might prefer them.

by russ alan prince and anthony glomski
your $5-million high-net-worth practice

in many ways, the accounting industry is under pressure from fee compression and seriously increasing competition. the current crisis is exacerbating the problems some accounting firms are having.

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at the same time, certain types of clients and sets of services prove to be extremely profitable for accounting firms. one such type of client is the ultra-wealthy. furthermore, a potentially highly profitable segment of the ultra-wealthy is those with single-family offices.
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16 traits of the best tax clients

green cast iron sign with white 16 painted on it

subscriber frank kistner adds no. 17: clients who remove staples from source documents (because they can damage your scanner/copier).

by ed mendlowitz
tax season opportunity guide

clients are our customers who pay our salaries and present us with stimulating opportunities allowing us to grow.

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there is no such thing as a bad or nuisance client – although there are clients who sometimes do bad or nuisance things.
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