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studley: navigating the adult industry accounting niche | big 4 transparency

“you can write off lingerie?” learn how one accountant built a judgment-free firm for the adult industry. 

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by dominic piscopo, cpa
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when katherine studley posted a short tiktok in 2021 with the line “boobs aren’t a write-off,” she wasn’t trying to build a firm – she was trying to prove a point. now, the founder of the only consultant and prisma tax is one of the most in-demand accountants for adult industry professionals across north america, having helped thousands of creators, dancers, and sex workers file taxes, get compliant, and navigate financial systems that too often shut them out. 

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in this episode of big 4 transparency, host dominic piscopo speaks with studley about how she carved out one of the most unusual and underserved niches in accounting and scaled it to a fully remote, growing firm with a waitlist and a social following that fuels constant inbound interest. studley’s journey started after leaving the cpa firm grind, working in coffee shops, and being recruited into a government intelligence role. but it was a viral conversation during the pandemic that unlocked a huge market: onlyfans creators and exotic dancers who were suddenly earning six figures with no idea how to file taxes or whom to trust to help them. 

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belonging or bust: talent crisis deepens as firms retreat from dei

move 2025: firms report high levels of burnout and strong uptake of pay structures and mentorship programs, but fall short on sustained equity practices such as alumni tracking, pay equity reviews, and linking manager compensation to fair pay.
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belonging, not perks, is the deciding factor in public accounting’s talent future.

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as the accounting profession contends with a historic labor shortage, a new report warns that firms pulling back from diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are courting deeper disruption to their profitability, quality and future viability.

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the new 2025 accounting move project report finds that dei has become a flashpoint in the accounting profession’s talent crisis – just as the industry faces its most severe workforce contraction in decades.

“belonging isn’t a soft concept; it’s a hard-edged business imperative,” says bonnie buol ruszczyk, president of the accounting move project.

in addition, 12 firms were cited as exemplary by the accounting & financial women’s alliance: bpm, clark nuber, eide bailly, frazier & deeter, the bonadio group, schellman, kwc certified public accountants, bland & associates, james moore & co., abbott, stringham & lynch, kerkering, barberio & co., and rehmann.

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mergers & acquisitions

one times fees is just one way

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do the math. you might be surprised.

by marc rosenberg
cpa firm mergers: your complete guide

partners in accounting firms are familiar with the rule of thumb that a cpa firm’s goodwill is worth one times fees; however, like many “rules of thumb,” this notion is often incorrect.

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when buyers begin to think about how much they will pay for a smaller firm, they often have this one-times-fees notion in the back of their minds. then, when sellers are bold enough to ask for a price in excess of one times fees, buyers often balk because they feel that the asking price is too rich.

the purpose of this article is to demonstrate that buying a small firm for one times fees is a steal (for the buyer). in fact, it’s still an outstanding investment at a premium price, say, as high as 1.3 times fees. let me illustrate.

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marketing & sales

forecast firm growth with five questions

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do you know where your next money is coming from?

by martin bissett
passport to partnership

if i could give you one tip that would assure that you could predict your consistent practice growth, it would be to look at your calendar.

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you need to look at what is on your calendar and to look at today’s date and ask, “where is the money coming from this month?” look at what recurring fees you have, look at the value of those fees and what they bring in. then consider what would happen if any of those fees did not recur. look at what would happen if those fees dropped out of the equation and think about how you would replace that income.
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whitman: build culture on ‘progress,’ not change | the disruptors

language, collaboration, and leadership training turned competition into cohesion.

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the disruptors
with liz farr

when alan whitman became baker tilly’s ceo, he was caught between two warring camps. on one side were the legacy partners who had built the organization and “wanted to continue doing things the way that we’ve always done them because we’ve been so successful.” that side was afraid of “losing what they had built.” in the other camp were the new partners who wanted to change “to what they were promised, what they signed on to by becoming part of baker tilly.” the newcomers wanted “to move faster and do it differently.” 

more streaming: shein: no pe? no m&a? no problem | hood and weber: time to rise | proctor: turn dumb ideas into brilliant solutions | carter-gray: how 1 poor review strengthened the firm | hartman: upwork to “40 under 40” in 3 years | telka: transform fear into fuel | woodard: move past reports; deliver results | baker: find true purpose to end burnout | brolin: the w.i.n. leadership formula | gertrudes: how eos & “unreasonable hospitality” reshaped growthlab | vilms: the power of people in a tech-driven world | dickerson: from diagnosis to disruption | kapilovich: treat people like people | martha yasso: from wall street to main street | jackie meyer: tax plans in 90 seconds? believe it  | erica goode: build a $200k firm in 15hrs/week |

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as whitman describes in his new book, “break the mold: how to achieve transformational change scale and grow simultaneously, the conflict was resolved over time, one conversation, one small meeting at a time. “it would be more evolution, not revolution,” whitman says.  

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