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55 Is the New 65 for Succession Planning

  • 9 hours ago
  • 1 min read

For years, CPA firm owners operated from a familiar assumption: Build the firm, work hard and begin thinking seriously about transition sometime around age 65. That timetable once felt reasonable but, in today's environment, it's often too late.


A more effective and advantageous succession window should begin earlier, as Ira Rosenbloom asserts in a May 2026 column in Accounting Today.


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