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CPA Firm Growth: Keys to Practice Development

This book teaches growth-minded firms time-honored practice development tactics that still work while provding bold new ideas: how to spend marketing dollars wisely, how to outgrow the competition and take the firm to the next level.

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CPA Firm Partner Agreement Essentials

Every firm needs to ask: Is our partner agreement current? Does it protect the firm? Do we even have one? This book covers every major section of a properly written agreement: partner buyout, new partner buy-in, ownership percentage, voting, non-solicitation covenants, partner duties, mandatory retirement and non-equity partners.

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CPA Firm Staff: Managing Your #1 Asset

In an era of tight labor supply and high turnover, the old ways of managing staff no longer work. Today’s firms need to address retention, staff engagement, recruiting, training, mentoring, recognition, leadership development, advancement, performance feedback and work-life balance; here’s your complete guide.

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CPA Firm Partner Compensation: The Art and Science

No one partner compensation system applies to all firms. Both subjective judgment and quantifiable methods and tactics must be employed to result in an outcome that satisfies the partners and is perceived as fair. Tailor your partner comp system specifically for your firm: here's how.

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CPA Firm Partner Retirement / Buyout Plans

The guide to creating a well-written, competitive buyout agreement: the industry's first-ever detailed reference source - an invaluable tool for firms drafting an initial plan or revising and updating an existing agreement.

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CPA Firm Mergers: Your Complete Guide

The merger market is in frenzy, yet few firms have experience with mergers. Our step-by-step guide provides the keys to implementing successful mergers: assessing cultural fit, critical negotiating terms, pricing strategies, due diligence and legal issues.

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How CPA Firms Work: The Business of Public Accounting

Updated for 2018, an invaluable resource for new hires that explains how CPA firms work as a business. Use it as part of new employee orientation and onboarding programs to give new employees a solid foundation in the workings of a typical firm.

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CPA Firm Management & Governance

Best practices for managing and structuring the leadership group; descriptions of both partnership and corporate styles; role of the managing partner and firm administrator; decision making; voting; the role of a partner and how the organization changes as the firm grows.

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CPA Firm Retreats: The Do-It-Yourself Guide

Many firms hire outside facilitators for their retreats. But the majority. especially those under $15M, facilitate their own. In both cases, this all-new edition serves as a complete resource guide to convening a partner retreat that leads to action.

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What Really Makes CPA Firms Profitable?

Several dozen high-impact techniques for maximizing profitability; 25 best practices for moving firms from good to great; what is NOT important to profitability; BONUS: current CPA industry benchmarks from The Rosenberg MAP Survey.

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ROSENBERG PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SERIES

Based on experiences and insights amassed over decades of consulting with upwards of 1000 CPA firms throughout North America, each title is dedicated to a key area of CPA firm practice management. Presenting informative case studies and useful handouts, checklists and templates in Rosenberg’s engaging, conversational style, the books are a valuable resource for firms interested in improving profitability, setting and achieving actionable goals, resolving partner and staff issues and developing the profession’s future leaders.

In 2020, Kristen Rampe, CPA of Grand Rapids-based Rampe Consulting joined the Rosenberg Practice Management Team as a partner. After working together for several years on a variety of consulting projects, Marc and Kristen are now collaborating on all facets of the ever-expanding book program. As rising stars of our industry’s next generation, Kristen and her team will bring a fresh and valuable professional perspective to the trends and topics our series continues to address.

Marc Rosenberg is a nationally known consultant, author and speaker on CPA firm management, strategy and partner issues. President of his own Chicago-based consulting firm, The Rosenberg Associates, he is founder of the most authoritative annual survey of mid-sized CPA firm performance statistics in the country, The Rosenberg Survey. Annually recognized by Accounting Today as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People and Inside Public Accounting as one of the Top Ten Recomended Consultants since 2004, he has consulted with more than 1000 firms throughout his 20+ year consulting career. View Marc Rosenberg’s profile

Rosenberg and Rampe share their insights and expertise regularly on our Blog.

Is Mandatory Retirement a Best Practice?

Marc Rosenberg, CPA ~ I’ll start with the punch line. Yes, it is a best practice. But only if your firm’s vision is to stay independent into the next generation by developing future leaders and retaining retirees’ clients. If you …

Selling Your Firm in 2020 – What Makes the Cut?

Marc Rosenberg, CPA ~ Attractive firms in the top 50 U.S. cities are still able to find buyers offering a more than fair price. In those instances, the seller’s market is alive and well. However firms with less appeal could …

When It Comes to Performance Reviews, Ditch the Labels

Kristen Rampe, CPA ~ Say it’s performance review time and you nonchalantly slip in that one of your team members, let’s call her Madison, “needs to be more professional.” In your mind, you know exactly what this means. It’s helpful …

Testimonials

“I consider Marc Rosenberg’s publications my go-to source for practice management information. They are always well researched and practical in their application.”

Gregory W. Hammonds
Robinson, Whaley, Hammonds & Allison
Atlanta, GA

“I ordered your most recent monograph and my MP and I are both reading it. In our opinion it is a “must read” for every partner in a CPA firm! We would love to make it a requirement for all of our partners. I truly do think it is “the best” management book.”

Dorothy Gray, COO
GranthamPoole CPAs
Jackson, MS

“GREAT stuff! Please tell Marc thank you.”

Marina A. Houghton, CPA
WOLINSKI & COMPANY, C.P.A
Detroit

“Initially we shared How CPA Firms Work with our Director and Management Groups, but found it so useful we have given it to all our staff and are now incorporating it for new staff while onboarding.”

Kimberly Hawkins,
Thomas Head & Greisen PC; Anchorage, AK

“We have used your Monograph series on practice management topics to assist us in developing our own internal procedures and processes. We have found this material to be very helpful, as it is based on “real-life” experiences in working with CPA firms, and the recommendations are practical to implement.”

Cary Selby, CA
Managing Partner
SBLR LLP, Toronto

“Marc has been a valued consultant over the years. The Monograph series uses his experience and “no-nonsense” approach to accounting firm management issues. If you are a constant learner about the profession as we like to be, the series is a requirement.”

Larry G. Autrey
Managing Partner, Whitley Penn
Ft. Worth, TX

“I have been using your Monographs since buying them three weeks ago. What a great resource!”

Dana Jarvis
Director of Operational Analysis
Burr Pilger

“We have purchased a number of Marc’s books and I like them because they are concise, have ready points that can be implemented and are focused to the task at hand – CPA firm profitability, retreat planning, succession planning. They are a great resource for the CPA firm owner or manager.”

Chip Helme
Managing Principal
Thompson, Greenspon & Co.
Fairfax, VA

“Marc’s monograph series provides detailed and thought provoking insights into a myriad of the most important management issues facing partners in today’s accounting firms. The checklists and forms alone will save you thousands of dollars. Why recreate the wheel?”

Cornell Rudov
President
CPAsNET.com

“Rosenberg's 'How CPA Firms Work' captures the best of the best snapshots in our industry. Our strategic discussions on these points have been focused, saving us hours of research time on our own. And it has given us the confidence to proceed on several issues already addressed by other good firms.”

Rob Sachs - COO Dalby Wendland & Co. P.C.