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Jan 5
1 min

Podcast: 5 Key Things on Managing Partners' Minds

From tax season and staffing to deal-making and community relations, Managing Partners work to ensure firms remain efficient, profitable ...

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Dec 8, 2020
1 min

Questions to Answer Before Tax Season

Between the coronavirus, the economy and the routine mysteries of business, we all have questions. As you ready your firms for tax season...

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Nov 19, 2020
2 min

How to Succeed with a Value-Added Practice Model

More and more CPA firms are finding ways to take their service platform and billing past traditional compliance and into value-added serv...

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Oct 22, 2020
1 min

Optimum Strategies Featured at Industry Event to Help CPA Firm Managers

Managing a CPA firm in 2020 can be challenging to say the least! Firm managers can get ideas and help from experts at the CPA Firm Manage...

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Oct 22, 2020
2 min

7 Steps to Boost Firm Performance

Even if your firm is performing well, every business can do better. As you try to take a breath after the October 15th deadlines, here ar...

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Sep 17, 2020
1 min

Ways to Maximize ROI at Your Firm

Are you calculating and communicating about your firm's return on investment (ROI)? Like every other business, your firm invests a lot of...

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Aug 24, 2020
2 min

Create a Can-Do Culture at Your Firm!

COVID-19 constantly reminds us of the things we can’t do these days, and, while many CPA firms have adapted to work-from-home realities, w...

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Aug 18, 2020
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Video: 5 Things CPA Firms Are Doing to Succeed

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Aug 4, 2020
1 min

Video: 3 Roadblocks to CPA Firm Progress

Sure, staffing and lack of a succession plan are common answers to the question, "What's holding your accounting firm back?" But, beyond ...

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Jul 31, 2020
2 min

4 Ways to Win at Internal Succession

Firms often think that the best and only option for succession comes externally. However, COVID-19 may have actually created conditions t...

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Jul 10, 2020
1 min

Video: Dealing with Firm Transitions, Planned and Unplanned

If your accounting practice is changing leadership or ownership--whether suddenly in a crisis or in a planned exit or succession--here ar...

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Jun 15, 2020
2 min

10 Hot Services to Consider

In good times and bad, service line strength at an accounting practice is valuable. Here are 10 very appealing service areas and the reas...

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Jun 10, 2020
1 min

Podcast: Personnel Priorities for Every Firm

As part of this podcast series with PICPA, Ira Rosenbloom, Chief Operating Executive of Optimum Strategies, sits down with editor Bill Ha...

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Jun 4, 2020
1 min

COVID-19 and the New Business Imperatives for CPA Firms

Business for CPA firms is usually tied to four primary channels: Client service; Business development; Knowledge; and Financial prudence ...

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May 19, 2020
1 min

Supercharge Your Compensation Program!

A well-designed comp structure can motivate, challenge, reward and advance your team to keep them happy and productive. In this article f...

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May 7, 2020
1 min

Podcast: Succession Planning Priorities for Every CPA Firm

As CPA firm leaders plan for succession, there are priorities that should advance to the top of every firm's list, including compromise, ...

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Apr 9, 2020
1 min

Podcast: Client Service Must-Haves for CPA Firms

Optimum Strategies' Ira Rosenbloom sat down with William Hayes of the PICPA to explore the qualities that accounting firm service systems...

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Apr 9, 2020
1 min

Podcast: Client Service Must-Haves for Every Firm

In the second of a PICPA five-part series on the top priorities for CPA firm management, Ira Rosenbloom of Optimum Strategies explores th...

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Apr 8, 2020
1 min

7 Practical Lessons Accounting Firms Can Learn From COVID-19

7 practical lessons CPA firms can learn from the COVID-19 crisis.

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Apr 7, 2020
1 min

Video: How to Conduct 'Business as Usual' in These Unusual Times

How should CPA firms focus their time and attention for maximum benefit in these times of uncertainty and anxiety? Focus on the parts of ...

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