In this week’s Growing Your Firm podcast, we’re interviewing Vince Porter, president and CEO of Porter & Company, CPAs. He was recently awarded the 40 under 40 award by CPA Practice Advisor. Our interview went over a broad range of subjects related to how he grew his business. Here, he shares some of his… Read more »
How To Fire Yourself From Your Firm
Learning how to grow your firm is the aim of our podcast, but there’s a certain point in your growth where you have to be able to step back and see where you’re going. For many firm owners, this can feel like an impossible task. We’re going to talk about a way to make it… Read more »
Time Blocking May Be The Best Productivity Tool You’re Not Using
Everyone has the same number of hours in the day, but not everyone uses them wisely. There are dozens of little mosquitoes buzzing around us to suck the time out of our days. When you start to transition to a managerial role or begin to scale up, these little distractions like long meetings and controlling… Read more »
How to Turn Your Accounting Firm Around in 6 Months
Tax season is upon us! Are you feeling stressed yet? CPA burnout is a real thing, but what if there was a way to significantly reduce the amount of stress you go through while still generating a lot of income? This week’s guest just might be able to help you. Chuck Bauer is a sales… Read more »
How To Use MAP To Make Your Accounting Business Profitable
Roger Knecht is the President of Universal Accounting, a company that helps accountants, bookkeepers, and tax preparers start and build their accounting businesses into profitable enterprises. One of the core methods they teach is called MAP. You’re going to learn the basics of this tool and where you can learn more information about it. In… Read more »
5 Strategies to Keep Bookkeeping Firms Connected to Clients
Can you hear me now? Communicating with your accounting clients can sometimes be a chore. They’re demanding. They ask a lot of questions. They take up your time. They oftentimes feel like a roadblock to the rest of your day. But the reality is that you are their lifeline to the ultimate goal of their… Read more »
Why Accountants and Bookkeepers Need to Embrace Technology
Technology is here, whether you like it or not. Cash registers count change for you, your car tells you when to brake, and everywhere you look people’s faces are buried in their cell phones. It’s completely transforming industries across the board, and the accounting industry is no different. Piles of paperwork and spreadsheets are becoming… Read more »
July 2017 Product Updates
Hey Free Folk! (BTW Game of Thrones is back!) This makes three months in a row for updates, so call us butter because we’re on a roll. July was surprisingly rainy here in Pittsburgh but we are in for a good stretch of bright weather in August. Believe it or not, we actually got… Read more »
June 2017 Product Updates
Hey Folks! Here is our second month for product updates! Yahooo! It’s been a humid and hot month here in Pittsburgh. We just moved into to some extra offices too. And boy did we need the space! (The A/C might actually be too high, haha!) June was a month for keeping our head down… Read more »
How Much is My Accounting Firm Worth ?
Speaker 1: How are firms actually valued? Obviously the client list is involved, but it’s hard to determine when we’re going to sell or potentially going to acquire, what are the different elements of value or valuation gets put into that, and how can firms start to wrap their head around the different levers that… Read more »