Posts Tagged ‘accounting firm’
What Gender Issue?
Many question whether a gender issue exists in our profession. I did not expect to encounter this issue as part of the INSIDE Public Accounting/ConvergenceCoaching research study, “The Road to Retention: Motivators and Drivers for Young Public Accounting Professionals.” What I anticipated was generationally-focused feedback highlighting the differences between mature and younger professionals. Digging…
Read MoreBuying Out Retiring Partners
Surveys tell us a huge percent of accounting firms are facing the prospects of partners retiring in the near future. In most cases, this is going to lead to the need for the firm to buy the equity of the retiring partner, usually in the form of paying out capital and retirement or deferred compensation…
Read MorePreparing Your Firm for an Upstream Merger or Sale
With all of the merger activity in the accounting profession today, there is a good chance your firm has been approached to consider an upstream merger or sale. Perhaps you are seeking that as a way to address strategic needs your firm has such as the pressure to provide succession for soon-to-retire partners. Keep in…
Read MoreRefresh and Repeat
It’s a new day. I love the optimism associated with that. Just like the document where I have begun typing, it is blank, clean, bright and full of optimism and potential. Only we rarely approach each day with this type of optimism. We reserve it for New Year’s Day, new jobs, new beginnings. We almost…
Read MorePreparing Your Firm to Grow Through M & A
We find firms seeking to grow using mergers and acquisitions often start the process with too little advance preparation. This can lead to many false starts. In the worst case scenarios it can lead to: 1) failing to close a deal your firm would have benefitted from or 2) a failed merger. This blog summarizes…
Read MoreWhat’s the Why?
As firms wrestle with Baby Boomer succession, the differences in attitudes, thinking and motivators between current and future leaders can sometimes be great. More often than not those differences or gaps are major contributors to the absence of future leaders who are on deck and ready to step into the shoes of the retiring partners.…
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