What Really Makes CPA Firms Profitable?, 3rd Edition
TESTIMONIALS
“We have purchased a number of Rosenberg Associates’s books, and I like them because they are concise, have ready points that can be implemented, and are focused on the task at hand – CPA firm profitability, retreat planning, and succession planning. They are a great resource for the CPA firm owner or manager.”
Chip Helme, Managing Principal, CPA, CGMA
Thompson, Greenspon & Co.
Fairfax, VA
Third Edition
Based on experiences with more than 1,000 CPA firms across the country, this updated, greatly expanded book summarizes 40 high-impact techniques to maximize profitability. A Bonus: Recent benchmarks from The 2024 Rosenberg Survey, an indispensable reference that firms use to increase their profitability.
The following are included in our newest edition:
- Recent benchmarks from The 2024 Rosenberg Survey.
- Debunking over-reliance on partner income as a percent of revenue as a measure of profitability.
- How a firm’s culture affects profitability in a big way.
- How adopting best practices for managing staff has a huge impact on profitability.
- Pricing practices that add more dollars to your bottom line and streamline your client list.
- Increasing profitability with mergers. Why hundreds of firms acquire several firms every year.
- How the selection of the firm’s partner compensation system impacts profitability in ways that few realize.
- Expanded list of the 25 all-time best practices for CPA firms.
- What doesn’t increase profitability.
Other topics include:
- The essence of CPA firm profitability
- Accountability and acting like a partner
- CPA firm benchmarking
- Marketing and the bottom line
- Strong management and leadership: The most reliable path to profitability
- Other ways to improve profitability
- 25 best practices that move firms from good to great
- What doesn’t seem to be important to firm profitability
- Partner relations: Happy partners are productive partners
- 40 great ways to improve CPA firm profitability
Toolkit
We are offering a proprietary toolkit that includes a dozen key documents from the book your firm can use. The toolkit comes in a printable PDF to make it easy for you to use immediately. The toolkit is available as a $110 add-on to your book purchase and includes:
High-Impact One-Page PDFs for sharing with your partner group:
- The 10 Biggest Mistakes in Benchmarking
- Sample Letter for Increasing Fees
- Value Positioning: Questions to Ask
- Top 50 Profitability Tactics
- Key Statistics and Ratios: By Geographic Region, Annual Fees, Size of Market, etc.
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