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careful… you may be advising!

two people in an office talking and gesturing

what business owners need from you.

by seth fineberg

despite all the hype and even some anecdotal pushback, if you are an accounting professional, you may already be advising. whether you’re charging for it is another story.

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moreover, transactional accounting is becoming a commodity with services like bench, pilot, botkeeper and the rise in scores of outsourcing companies flooding the market with often low-cost, highly automated bookkeeping services. as such, small cpa and bookkeeping firms are under pressure to bring more to the table than just organizing and crunching numbers if they are to hang on to their existing clients and attract new ones.
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jason deshayes: what we’re doing isn’t working

create opportunities for others by getting out of the way.

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by age 35, jason deshayes, cpa/pfs, cfp, cka, was already co-owner of a cpa firm in albuquerque. he “hit the magic shangri la that we’re all working for.” but it wasn’t right for him. he was bored with the long hours and felt he wasn’t growing. he wasn’t able to think about his firm the way he wanted to. so he and his partner sold their firm.

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today, he’s coo at cook wealth, a hybrid wealth management and tax firm. providing both types of services means that they don’t deal with “this weird thing, where the client’s in the middle, and they have to be the conduit for information going both ways.” he says that getting his cfp has “been so enriching.” deshayes added, “i love what i do, and it’s because i was willing to drop stuff so other people could learn the stuff i learned, and so i could do fun stuff.”  

click “play” to see: what jason deshayes talks about when he’s talking about a “forward-thinking enterprise.” (via wordclouds.com)

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don’t overlook internal communication

bonus checklist: five questions to evaluate yourself.

by martin bissett
passport to partnership

the passport to partnership study collated a number of responses in a conversational style. several examples really stood out as the first steps in effective communication:

would we put this person in front of a client?

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meaning: the clients are our source of income; we don’t jeopardize that for anything. if we think that this person will do anything less than consolidate the perception of the firm and its people in the eyes of the client, we’ll keep them back in the office.
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hitendra patil named president of datamatics global f&a services

to drive the cpa and f&a outsourcing business globally.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
via datamatics cpa

datamatics business solutions, inc., a mumbai-based global provider of outsourced accounting, bookkeeping, finance, tax preparation, audit & assurance, payroll and demand generation & data services, is naming hitendra patil as president of its global finance and accounting and cpa outsourcing services.

more hitendra patil: help your clients run their businesses better | set your processes apart in nine steps | five ways to overcome cas staffing challenges | think cas isn’t for your firm? | convince your firm of cas value | ten ways to tell a client is ready for cas | launch cas in just eight steps

see: client accounting services: the definitive success guide
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hitendra patil, a 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 contributor and a top 100 influencer in the accounting profession, will drive the cpa and f&a outsourcing business growth for dbs inc. the cpa business spans the united states, canada, united kingdom, ireland, australia and new zealand and is poised for customer growth in other key geographical markets.

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stress test: will clients get the outcome they want?

keep their cleverness from turning fraudulent.

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

for the extremely wealthy, financial stress testing is quite common. just consider the following case.

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a super-rich individual (net worth = $500 million or more) asked us to examine a tax mitigation strategy he was using. he was quite proud of how ingenious it was and how well it worked. the complication was that some of his business dealings were under scrutiny, and he wanted to make sure his wealth planning would not cause any problems. as part of this tax strategy, he had done several things:
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