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Small Business November 11, 2024
Client accounting services often exceed the boundaries of traditional accounting analysis. Many clients want more, such as a strategic planning analysis method such as SWOT, where an ...
Accounting August 9, 2024
Clients are often great at what they do in their business, but not too many clients are good at what we accountants do. Sometimes, we could use a little help to put things in our clients’ languages.
Advisory July 2, 2024
Using ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini to create any type of marketing output can save you time and money. And if you’re not a natural wordsmith, it can help you put the pizazz in your titles and subject lines as well as the rest of your marketing content.
Firm Management June 24, 2024
These forms and templates should be customizable to fit the specific needs of the CPA firm and its clients. Additionally, they should be regularly updated to comply with evolving accounting standards and regulations.
Accounting June 18, 2024
AI tools like ChatGPT can be used to streamline financial statement analysis and other client accounting service tasks. Here’s an example of what it can do with an income statement.
May 13, 2021
While accountants and tax pros were busy keeping up with tax law and accounting changes, marketers faced a few huge changes of their own in the digital marketing space, mostly from Google. Here’s a run down of a couple of things that happened during ...
March 23, 2020
Perseverance is a skill that anyone can learn to thrive through life’s curves. When adversity strikes, it’s not what happens to you but how you respond to what happens to you that has the greatest impact on your life. Here are four specific actions ...
May 13, 2019
May is the perfect time of year to finalize your marketing strategy for the rest of 2019. Your website is the centerpiece of your digital presence; its 24/7 worldwide reach is the perfect place to make a few tactical upgrades to increase ...
March 22, 2017
A public relations effort is one of the best ways to build your firm’s brand as well as to gain thought leadership status for your partners and firm owners. Here’s a few steps, tips, and apps that can get your PR launch off to a great start.
October 11, 2016
Here’s a quick checklist to make sure your website’s homepage is working hard for you. These eight items should be on your home page for best results:
October 11, 2016
Social media can be incredibly profitable, but it can also be incredibly time-consuming. Here are three tools that help to take the work out of social media and put the profit back in.
July 25, 2016
One of the most chronic complaints of clients that leave their CPA to find another is their former CPA’s lack of communication. So if there is a tool that can both help you communicate more in a leveraged, time-saving way while also warming up ...
