Rosenberg Associates Blog
Kristen Rampe, CPAWhen The Rosenberg Survey is being compiled, CPA consulting leaders are asked to provide insights and perspectives annually. Rosenberg Associates’ Kristen Rampe, Marc Rosenberg, and Matt Rampe were among the 16 CPA firm consultants who contributed this year. Here’s what they had to say about the past 12 months and predictions for this year. …
Marc Rosenberg, CPANot all our “younger” readers may be familiar with the term “MAP.” They may have heard the term but not really know what it means or its historical significance. “MAP” stands for “Management of an Accounting Practice.” Prior to the mid-late 1970s, the term wasn’t in accounting firms’ vocabulary. That’s because the era of professionally…
The 2022 Rosenberg Survey has been released, and, along with it, volumes of data on the CPA industry’s performance over the past year. The survey asks the industry’s top consultants to share their observations from CPA firms. Here are the questions and our responses. How would you assess the last 12 months? Trends? Observations? Struggles?…
Overview Three months into the pandemic in 2020, the vast majority of firms projected revenue and profit reductions and staff layoffs. Fortunately, this fear was unfounded. Not only did declines not happen but revenues and profits increased as unveiled in the newly released 23rd annual edition of The Rosenberg MAP Survey. And there were virtually…
The 22nd annual Rosenberg MAP Survey, as always, contains numerous morsels of valuable advice for CPA firms. In this year’s survey, 338 firms participated, 80% with revenues in the $2-20M range. The survey and our companion book, What Really Makes CPA Firms Profitable, is committed to encouraging the practice of benchmarking as a powerful way…
This month, we repeated a survey of 52 CPA firms to better understand the effects COVID is taking on the industry. The vast majority of respondents were repeat participants from our June COVID survey of 61 firms. Read our previous blog post here. Most firms surveyed were in the $7-15M revenue range. Forty-seven of…
This is the 21st year of the Rosenberg Survey. It reports on over 100 financial and operating performance metrics of over 300 CPA firms. But instead of merely citing key statistics and analyzing them for you, today’s post analyzes 5 key metrics, first from a traditional perspective, followed by a more subtle but powerful analysis…
If you’re a CPA and you are serious about being the firm of the future, you should read Rob Nixon’s Remaining Relevant:The Future of the Accounting Profession. Rob is CEO of Panalitix, an Australian-based firm that uses cloud software to enable accountants to offer real time business advisory services to their clients. He has coached…
This was the 17th year of The Rosenberg Survey. Nearly 400 CPA firms participated from coast to coast, from both large and small population markets. Each year we analyze the results to identify key indicators that help us better understand CPA industry trends. Here are the top 10 findings from the 2015 survey (reporting on…
Sixteen years ago I discovered that public MAP surveys available in the CPA firm market weren’t very helpful in benchmarking CPA firms. So I created my own. It was one of the best decisions I ever made. CPA firms sometimes operate in a cocoon My favorite benchmarking story (true!) goes something like this: I ask…
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