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growth strategies

build exit strategy into your business strategy

ten action steps to take now, not someday.

by jackie meyer
the balanced millionaire: advisor edition

having gone through the process of selling clients and eventually an entire firm, i gathered some invaluable lessons. if you ever consider selling part or all of your practice, keep these in mind:

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  • always have a retention clause: if you sell clients or your firm, include a clause in the sale agreement that protects you if clients don’t stick around.

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management

employee experience not what it seems

older man and younger man in meeting

the years didn’t add up.

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

we hired sam out of school and he worked for us for two and a half years and then we split up our firm. this was ages ago and sy and i left our third partner to form our new firm on jan. 1.

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however, there is a valuable lesson here and i think it is worth sharing. it changed the way we hired staff.
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pricing, fees & billing rates

use tech to make employees happier

stop scouring for talent that doesn’t exist. 

by jody padar
the radical cpa

if you’ve posted a job for an accountant in the past few years, you know people are hard to come by. the number of responses you received was likely down if you were lucky enough to find any at all.

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according to a recent aicpa trends report, the number of people graduating with a bachelor’s degree in accounting is down, and we’ve seen a steady decline since 2015. all this while half of u.s. cpa firms have increased the number of new graduates they want to hire. a lot of us are looking for staff that simply does not exist.

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mergers & acquisitions

thirteen things to ask in a merger of equals

overhead view of 4 hands putting together 4 puzzle pieces

how about an executive committee from both firms?

by marc rosenberg
cpa firm mergers: your complete guide 

mergers of equals or firms close to equal (some call these sideways mergers) are much less common than mergers in which there is a clear survivor. but they do occur.

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quite simply, there are two reasons mergers of equals are uncommon:
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marketing & sales

the master key to business development

hand using key to unlock door

don’t wait for opportunity to come to you.

by martin bissett
business development on a budget

have you noticed all of those titles in the local bookstore or at the airport offering us the “key” to this and the “key” to that, the “six keys” to one thing, and the “four keys” to another?

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it also seems that every book is a “game-changer” now, to the point where it is difficult to understand what the game is anymore, never mind how to play it.
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