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pricing, fees & billing rates

use kpis to measure success

don’t just think you’re doing great; quantify it.

by jody padar
radical pricing – by the radical cpa

you’re well on your way to having a client-centric firm with up-front and value pricing. the next step is to determine your key performance indicators (kpis) and verify if those indicators make sense for your new firm.

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to set your new kpis, you need to think about what’s important to your firm, your employees and your clients. develop them around specific firm values.

as you move through this pricing evolution, you’ll start to see your firm as a for-profit company in the professional services space. your new kpis should look at your team through the eyes of people who work at the firm as well as those who will value your services.
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audit & assurance

alan anderson: applying jit concepts to the audit process

reduce audit time by 20% without reducing quality.

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by alan anderson, cpa
transforming audit for the future

for most audit firms, the concept of “just in time” means that the audit was completed and the financials were delivered “just in time” to meet the deadline. but in this webinar, alan anderson explains how concepts from just-in-time manufacturing can be applied to make audits more efficient, reducing time by at least 15-20% while also improving quality and customer service. 

 

more alan anderson: are you using the right business model? | give advice while remaining independent | the new formula for an accounting business | don’t risk losing good employees for bad clients | four questions to make your firm more successful as a business | say adios to audit fee pressure | deliver more audit value by getting out of the conference room | six essential elements in audit planning | before the audit: more than just planning | five crucial attributes for successful audit leadership | put the ethics code to work for your clients and your firm | is audit in crisis because of definitions?
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just-in-time manufacturing was devised to reduce inventory costs, downtime, and waste by following four sequential steps for every manufacturing process: design, build, inspect, and delivery. by analogy, the four steps of jit manufacturing correspond to the four audit phases of planning, fieldwork, review, and delivery. the raw materials of an audit consist of the trial balance and schedules supplied by the client, and the final deliverable is the audit report.  

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pro member exclusive

check these 41 items on business tax returns

woman's hand using a pencil on notepad

a handy reviewer’s checklist.

by ed mendlowitz
tax season opportunity guide

client ________________________ year _____

prepared by ___________________ date _____

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notes: 1) the term “owners” will be used to refer to stockholders, partners or members, as the case may be. 2) even though “trial balance” is used in this checklist, you can use the company’s financial statements if those were what were used for the preparation of the tax return, or computer-generated statements.

following is a suggested checklist of things for the reviewer to consider:
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politics & government

irs must speed up tax return processing

six steps to making it happen.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

it’s hard to comprehend the job that the internal revenue service performs. every year, more than a quarter billion tax returns flood into the agency’s complex of pipelines. some 10,400 employees get to work on “submission processing.”

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in most cases, one of the pipelines leads back to the taxpayer with a timely refund or a notice of additional tax liability.

but in many cases, glitches in the system burden taxpayers with onerous and frustrating challenges.
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charts & graphs

first tax filing reports are in

data table
* total tax returns processed includes returns received in the prior or current year and processed in 2025. # total refunds issued represents refunds for returns received and processed in 2025, which reflects current year returns only. however, the number of direct deposit refunds represents refunds for both current and prior year returns processed in 2025, which makes this figure larger than the “total number of refunds” listed for the current year.

 

refunds are up; everything else is down.

by beth bellor

the first week of tax season is over! cue the applause!

some of you seem less than excited. we know it’s early. all too early.

more: steve yoss: unlocking business insight with power bis | quick tax tip | more than 1 million erc claims still not processed | art werner: the godfather and tax issues | quick tax tip | advanced tax preparers need managing, too | the top ten problems the irs still needs to fix | tax pros gear up for a better busy season | irs processing up; payouts down | help tax clients help you | four challenges of managing new tax preparers
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still, it’s time to begin our weekly tally of how things are going, starting with 13.2 million individual income tax returns received as of jan. 31, down 14 percent from the same period in 2024. the total returns processed was 11.7 million, down 15.8 percent.
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