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reward partners for performing like partners

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piggy bank on scale with dollar signspartnership is no time to coast.

by marc rosenberg
the rosenberg practice management library

any of you who started out as sole practitioners surely remember that it was you – no one else – who made your firm successful. you brought in the business. you did top-notch work and delivered it on time. you nurtured and grew your client relationships so they came back asking for more. when you hired staff, you who were responsible for keeping them busy and training them how to do the work.

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if you took days off from these activities, guess what? no one did it for you and your firm suffered as a result.
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2020 outlook: business development goes borderless

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be ready to try new things faster.

by jennifer wilson

the traditional business model is under attack in so many ways including terrifically short staffing, which is leading to record profits for many firms, but also the cause of burnout and a growing sense of hopelessness and turnover, too. leaders are being forced to rethink traditional staffing models and are realizing many of the jobs inside their firms do not require accounting graduates or cpa candidates to do them.

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firms are simply overpaying for those roles today. this is leading to the exploration of non-cpa hires, and firms embracing outsourcing and offshoring options, especially for lower-level leveraged positions.
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keeping the right people on the bus

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illustration of different types of people connectednot everyone will work out, and that’s ok.

by jody grunden

there’s a common misnomer when it comes to retention and keeping people on the team. retention doesn’t mean keeping every single person on your team forever.

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not only do you want to get the right people on the bus, but you also want to get those people into the right seats. we want summit cpa to be a great place to work, and we want great people to be working here. however, we realize it may not be the right place for every person.
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the 4 marketing disciplines

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how to deploy them as a framework for cpa firm practice development.

by marc rosenberg
the rosenberg practice management library

all marketing activities fall into one of four categories:

  1. protect and grow revenue from existing clients.
  2. identify and nurture referral sources.
  3. focus on a well-defined group of prospects; get new clients.
  4. support activities that complement those above.

we call these the four disciplines. auditors follow certain steps of a predetermined program to perform an audit. it takes discipline to stay the course and execute the audit process.

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marketing is no different. it requires discipline to engage in all four categories, execute the action steps continuously and avoid taking shortcuts or skipping steps altogether.
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2020 outlook: data import on the rise

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microsoft power bi likely to become the visualization standard.

by roman h. kepczyk
quantum of paperless

security continues to be a significant and increasing threat, but many firm owners continue to assume it is being managed by their it team. we find traditional firm it does a good job on the internal components they control, but there are consistent shortfalls in the use of multifactor authentication, intrusion detection/prevention and staff training.

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with cloud providers having significantly better security and disaster recovery resources than on-premise networks, we expect this will be another reason that the majority of firms give up managing their own networks (with the uber-large firms having their own it/security consulting being the exception). however, all firms need to be training personnel on safe computing when remote, on being suspicious of unexpected emails (phishing), as well as social engineering attacks that could expose their login/password as well as put the firm at risk of ransomware.
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