Darren Root, CPA, CITP, CGMA, is Growth Strategist for Rightworks, where he delivers value to accounting firms every day via current, relevant thought leadership. Having managed his own CPA firm for more than 30 years, Darren’s vast accounting experience is rivaled only by his passion for helping firm owners modernize and transform their practices into thriving, sustainable enterprises. Darren’s real-world experience and innovative ideas incite both clarity and excitement among our customers as they work to build their own modern, highly profitable and technologically savvy firms. Over the years, Darren has earned numerous awards as an influencer and continues to add to the profession’s broad knowledge base via books and podcasts: Top 100 Most Influential People award Top 25 Thought Leader award Author of The Intentional Accountant Co-author of The E-Myth Accountant
February 27, 2013
Picking the right software platform is an exceptionally important decision in every accounting firm. As you may know, I am the managing partner of an 11-person CPA firm in Bloomington, Indiana.
January 28, 2013
It was Christmas Eve and all the meteorologists were talking about the impending blizzard. They were calling for 10 inches of snow starting early morning on the day after Christmas. I just so happened to have flight reservations at the same time the storm was forecasted to hit. Great.
December 18, 2012
It’s been more than 13 years since we started our transition to paperless, and today we are still paper free. Over the past five years, the focus has been on implementing a single client database...
December 18, 2012
Darren Root speaks with Jon Baron, managing director of the Professional Segment for the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters.
December 5, 2012
The awaited SmartVault integration with QuickBooks is now available—allowing QuickBooks Online users to attach and view source documents (such as receipts, bills, and invoices) directly from within QuickBooks Online.
November 26, 2012
There is a good lesson here for small firms. It’s been my experience that many firms are challenged in the areas of hiring the right people and applying the appropriate level of leadership to allow staff to expand business. Instead, many small firm owners build their business around their individual skill set and then wonder…
October 29, 2012
I’ve spent the last 30 years running my accounting firm. During many of the early years, I worked as a technician, performing a lot of the day-to-day work myself. When I took over the position of Executive Editor for the CPA Practice Advisor and simultaneously launched the consulting arm of my firm, I knew I…
October 17, 2012
From Darren’s CPA Practice Advisor blog: My Perspective. Just this week, a new cloud-based IRS “research center” application was released to the tax and accounting profession—Beyond415 Guidance. The stand-alone app from New River Innovation offers practical and up-to-date guidance for resolving issues after tax filing. Product features include searchable guidance that covers individual, business, and...…
September 27, 2012
Apart from the shock of how fast time goes by, I’m also amazed at how far my firm has come and the changes in the profession as a whole.
September 27, 2012
There are few accounting professionals that have had the opportunity to serve in multiple roles and gain insight from several unique vantage points over the course of their career. Greg LaFollette is one of the few.
September 14, 2012
TeamWork allows firm experts to share their knowledge by adding unique processes to the application’s extensive guidance database and creating custom templates and document sets.
