Posts by Kristen Rampe, CPA
A satirical blog post in celebration of April Fool’s Day, as featured in Accounting Today. With all the M&A activity in public accounting today, buyers and sellers alike will benefit from Cringe, a new agentic AI matchmaking app that surveys potential buyers and sellers on your behalf and constructs responses as if they’re from you,…
Originally published in Accounting Today. Partners at firms that have chosen to remain independent are now asking whether a firm’s internal buyout multiple should be adjusted. Some believe the multiple should be increased to reflect the additional value that could be captured by selling externally to private equity (PE) or through a traditional sale to…
Accounting Today released its annual ranking of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting—a respected list that highlights the thought leaders, innovators, and advisors shaping the future of the profession in December 2025. We’re proud to share that Rosenberg Associates’ Managing Partners Marc Rosenberg, CPA, and Kristen Rampe, CPA, have been named to the…
It’s that time of year again, when we get to enjoy the bounty of data available through the Rosenberg Survey, with gratitude to all the firms that put in the effort to respond. Here’s what we’re noticing. Average revenue is up, as usual, though the increase is smaller than last year. Profits are also up,…
It’s no secret that our industry needs leadership talent, successors who want to be CPA firm partner-level contributors. There’s a big group of them right at the doorstep, but we continue to struggle to bring the number of women leaders in accounting organizations anywhere near parity with the number in the profession. According to the…
You may have seen my interview earlier this year with Russell Shapiro on the topic of partner compensation. We spent close to 45 minutes discussing various aspects of allocating CPA firm income. One of the many topics we discussed was how to get buy-in on changes to a partner compensation system. Change management is the…
Welcome back to our analysis of insights from the Difficult Partner Dynamics Quick Poll conducted in August 2025. If you missed our first blog in this series, catch up here. In this post, we explore how unresolved partner issues affect compensation and, more importantly, look at ways to resolve them. We’ll also share real-life examples…
You’ve been there, or you’re in the middle of it now: a challenge with one particular partner (or maybe more than one) that’s making partner relations, progress, profitability, or all three difficult. We polled CPA firm leaders to find out what the most pervasive issues are, how long they’ve been around (or how long they persisted, if resolved), and…
Originally featured in Accounting Today. Many small and midsized firms are seeking a sounding board for the myriad calls they are getting from private equity firms and others seeking to acquire accounting practices. They’re exhausted. And the ongoing barrage continues to add pressure for firms to make a call on whether or not they should…
A satirical blog post in celebration of April Fool’s Day, as featured in Accounting Today. To improve firm profitability, local firm Watts, Taber and Fiske has made an innovative move to reduce full-time starting salaries for new college recruits to $38,000. WTF managing partner Bill Billings noted, “With all the newly available IRS agents and…
Kristen Rampe, CPA
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