SFP 73: What firms should know about succession and M&A
Sep 22, 2022
Terrence Putney, CPA, managing director with Whitman Transition Advisors, is among the top advisers on accounting firm mergers nationwide. Over his 44-year career, Putney has been involved with hundreds of accounting firm M&A deals and also co-written more than 20 articles on succession-related issues for the Journal of...
Sep 15, 2022
The Private Companies Practice Section’s National Management of an Accounting Practice (MAP) Survey gathers key metrics from thousands of U.S. firms of all sizes. In this episode of the Small Firm Philosophy podcast, Steven Bankler, CPA, shares how he and his small firm break down the survey results to build a...
Aug 25, 2022
Robotic Process Automation, or RPA, has been a buzzword in the accounting profession for several years. Despite that, many practitioners don’t have a great grasp of what RPA is and what it can do for accountants.
Wesley Hartman has spent much of the past eight years developing RPA solutions for midsize firm Kirsch...
Aug 9, 2022
CPA firms and the clients they serve often view the world through a different lens. Tom Hood, the AICPA’s executive vice president of business engagement and growth, recently had the rare opportunity to engage both groups. In this episode of the Small Firm Philosophy podcast, Hood explores the common challenges –...
Jul 21, 2022
The AICPA’s Private Companies Practice Section has been asking accounting firms to rank their top issues since 1997. But never has there been a list of concerns quite like the one produced by the 2022 CPA Firm Top Issues Survey. Listen in as two AICPA executives, Carl Peterson, CPA, CGMA, vice president of small firm...