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leadership

how accountability drives firm success

senior businessman with five colleagues

four challenges to address.

by anthony zecca
leading from the edge

i’ve been focusing on the leadership accounting firms need to succeed in a future driven by seismic disruptors. we began with strategy, then empowerment. this post will address the critical element that makes empowerment work – accountability.

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a characteristic of a great “edge” leader is the ability to empower everyone and understanding that as a leader, your responsibility is to lead and not manage. if you are the type of leader that manages, you own accountability since you can’t manage and empower at the same time. as i defined it in my previous post, a simple definition for empowerment that applies to all organizations is, “authority or power given to someone to do something.” 
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accounting arc

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“waiting this one out is not an option. the rate of change is too fast.”

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accounting arc
with liz mason, byron patrick, and donny shimamoto
center for accounting transformation

artificial intelligence is not replacing accountants; it is replacing the parts of accounting that accountants least want to do. that is the consensus of liz mason, cpa; byron patrick, cpa.citp, cgma; and donny shimamoto, cpa.citp, cgma, who devote the latest accounting arc to reframing ai as an accelerant for professional judgment rather than a threat to jobs.

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patrick, ceo of verifyiq and founder and instructor for tb academy, begins with a familiar refrain from social media: ai will put accountants out of business. mason, ceo of high rock accounting, answers with little patience. if a practitioner’s value is “typing numbers into a screen,” she says, then replacement is inevitable. the hosts argue that firms win when they let technology handle the typing and redeploy human time to analysis, communication, and decision support.

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growth strategies

get all the referrals you deserve

smiling man talking on phone in office

six questions to ask.

by august aquila
max: maximize productivity, profitability and client retention

you would think that if you do a good job, you should get all the referrals you need. unfortunately, this is not always the case.

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sometimes, you must ask clients and referral sources for referrals. and many times, professionals just don’t know how to ask.
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pricing, fees & billing rates

how to ward off scope creep

everyone must know exactly what does and does not fall within the lines of scoped services.

by jody padar
radical pricing – by the radical cpa

there’s a time to increase scope and a time to let it slide. let’s explore these two options.

it’s professional responsibility to inform a client when a request is out of scope. in this instance, you have two options: either make it a separate engagement or include it in the existing service package. it’s important to have everyone on the same page about what is within scope and what falls outside of it.

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it would be best if you always built into your pricing agreements a 20 percent buffer to protect you against pricing mistakes. this doesn’t mean you should do work outside the scope for free, but if a client asks for a service not included, you could decide to let it go if the amount is immaterial.

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