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Black Friday / Cyber Monday Deals for Bookkeepers and Accountants – 2024

Nancy McClelland, LLC

I’m still a little confused as to how it became a thing for accounting and bookkeeping services to advertise Black Friday or Cyber Monday specials… does that feel weird to anyone else? One of my favorite conferences, and the only “must go” for bookkeepers, imo. Regardless, there are some really good ones out there.

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AICPA and NATP Respond to TurboTax Ad

CPA Practice

The irritation factor for some tax professionals and CPAs who provide tax preparation services is that Intuit, the maker of TurboTax and several other consumer business programs, also produces a range of tax preparation systems made for professionals who service those same clients. “Tax Intuit’s decision to halt the ad is a positive step.

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How to Turn a Shortage of Accountants Into an Opportunity for Businesses

CPA Practice

Here’s how to attract them to accounting: Make the education requirements for CPAs less onerous and expensive. Evolve the role of accountants from bookkeepers to strategic partners. Pay a more attractive entry-level accounting salary. The reason is usually pretty consistent; they seek to be “part of the conversation.”

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How to win back time lost on client communications

Accounting Today

EDT 5 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Accountants and bookkeepers spend hours per week on client communication, from scheduling and confirming appointments to flagging paperwork deadlines and chasing invoices, especially during peak seasons. Giving back time to CPAs, bookkeepers and clients alike should be the goal.

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Rethinking the Concept of the Employee: How Outsourcing Can Help Grow Your Accounting Business

Speaker: Dixie McCurley, Principal, Digital Advisory at Cherry Bekaert LLP

In this post-COVID world, clients are reevaluating their expectations as far as an in-person relationship with their CPAs and accounting professionals. Rather, it could be utilized as an employee-friendly way to assuage an overburdened staff, relieve productivity bottlenecks, and stimulate growth.

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Strategies for identifying and converting clients for advisory services

ThomsonReuters

I know accountants and change dont go together, but you wont get a different result unless you do something different, says Sharon Theriot Macke, CPA & Founding Owner of Macke & Company, CPAs. I believe this is a change where youre still on the early end of the curve and clients are driving this. They need it.

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Tech Startup Accounting Insights From A Y Combinator Company

inDinero Tax Tips

The fundamental balance sheet equation is: Equity = Assets – Liabilities Accounting vs Bookkeeping Most tech startup founders have backgrounds in coding rather than finance, so if youre new to this world, you might wonder about the difference between an accountant and a bookkeeper. In short, bookkeepers are record keepers.