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Accounting Business Club#42 - La stratégie d'un cabinet comptable américain - Scotty ScaranoVous êtes expert-comptable et vous pensez que notre métier manque de légèreté ? Dans ce nouvel épisode de l'Accounting Business Club, Alexis Slama reçoit Scotty Scarano, un expert-comptable américain qui prouve le contraire en alliant comptabilité, musique et innovation.Scotty est le fondateur de Padgett NC cabinet d'expertise comptable innovant aux États-Unis et créateur du podcast "Accounting High". À travers son parcours unique, Scotty dévoile comment il a réussi à transformer son cabinet en une entreprise moderne générant plus de 1,3 million de dollars de chiffre d'affaires, tout...2025-01-121h 08
Business Strategy for CPA's313 Geraldine on The Soul of Enterprise with Ron Baker and Ed KlessRon Baker and Ed Kless had me on The Soul of Enterprise to go deeper into topics in my book, DOWN TO 40 HOURS – A Roadmap for CPAs to End Overworking Without Giving Up Revenue.…Link to full shownotes: https://www.businessstrategyforcpas.com/…If you feel trapped by your own accounting firm, I can help you stop the chaos and end the long hours without losing revenue or hiring. Join 5000+ other CPAs who get my single-tip daily emails...2024-09-0445 min
Accounting High209 Grow Your Free Time and get Down to 40 Hours: A Roadmap to End Overworking (feat. Geraldine Carter)Episode 209
FACULTY: Geraldine Carter
CLASS: #TheGuide
In this episode, Scott interviews Geraldine Carter, author of "Down to 40 Hours: A Roadmap for CPAs to Permanently End Overworking." Join us in the guidance counselor’s office for a book report exploring the philosophy of working less. We’re talking changing mindsets within the accounting industry, value pricing, and what happens when you combine value and systems. Reflect with us on how CPAs can achieve a balanced work life.
Shout Outs: Edward Mendlowitz, Ron Baker, Jason Ackerman
Purchase Geraldine’s Book on Amazon...2024-05-2646 minAccounting High131 Business Guide for Accountants (feat. Geraldine Carter)Season 4 Episode 131
In this episode of Accounting High, Scotty and Ackerman interview Geraldine Carter, a seasoned business consultant who has lived and worked in over 50 countries and now lives in Idaho. They discuss her background and the transformative power of travel, as well as her insights on the common mistakes CPAs make and the importance of value pricing and sales in accounting. Geraldine emphasizes the need for guidance rather than instruction for clients and the benefits of niching by vertical. She also shares her thoughts on spending versus waste and recommends a book. Tune...2023-04-2452 min
Business Strategy for CPA's234 Time's Up! with Ron Baker: Subscription Business Model for CPA Firms, Part 2*Want one piece of business strategy delivered daily to your inbox?* Subscribe here: geraldinecarter.com/subscribe How can CPAs grow their accounting practice when they’re over capacity, underutilizing their talents and not providing optimal client support? Many CPA firms still rely on the hourly billing business model, where the firm has to log more work hours providing services to increase revenue. It focuses on hours and deliverables, not on results and value. A compelling alternative is the subscription business model, where the provider enables serial transformations to the buyer, and con...2023-03-2230 min
Business Strategy for CPA's233 Time's Up! with Ron Baker: Subscription Business Model for CPA Firms, Part 1*Want one piece of business strategy delivered daily to your inbox?* Subscribe here: geraldinecarter.com/subscribe How can CPAs grow their accounting practice when they’re over capacity, underutilizing their talents and not providing optimal client support? Many CPA firms still rely on the hourly billing business model, where the firm has to log more work hours providing services to increase revenue. It focuses on hours and deliverables, not on results and value. A compelling alternative is the subscription business model, where the provider enables serial transformations to the buyer, and con...2023-03-1531 min
Business Strategy for CPA's225 Selling Summit CPA for Multiples with Jody Grunden*Want one piece of business strategy delivered daily to your inbox?* Subscribe here: geraldinecarter.com/subscribe Many CPAs work until they're done. And they either hand their firm down, sell it, or turn off the lights and close the door. Some miss an opportunity to be more strategic about what they choose to build with an eye toward future value creation. Here today to talk with me about this is my guest, Jody Grunden. Jody is the co-founder & CEO at Summit CPA Group, A Division of Anders CPAs + Advisors. Sum...2023-01-1839 min
Impact PricingHow Accountants Should Price their Services with Geraldine CarterGeraldine Carter runs She Thinks Big Coaching where she helps CPAs do less without sacrificing revenue. Although her target market are CPAs, she actually has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Cornell University. She was also a cycling guide for Backroads and now hosts her own podcast called The Business Strategy for CPAs. In this episode, she talks about the structure of pricing in the accounting industry and the reason why most CPAs are underpriced. She then discusses her so-called “effortless value” where accountants could earn more without having to do extra work. Finally, she shares...2022-10-1729 minBusiness Strategy for CPA's147 Subscription Business Model: Build Greater Wealth in Your CPA Firm with Ron BakerSubscription pricing is all the rage right now. Most CPAs are stuck when it comes to pricing - some have moved to flat-rate or subscription pricing, but many - if not most - still bill by the hour. What they often struggle to understand is the full depth of the value they offer to their clients, and because they don’t fully understand value, they are leaving Everest Sized Mountains of Money on the table, which means they have to work a lot harder to compensate for the missed opportunity. Here today to talk...2021-07-2148 minBusiness Strategy for CPA's111 Better Pricing Methodologies For CPA Firms, with Jonathan StarkWe're back today with Jonathan Stark. In case you missed it we did a recording with Jonathan a couple of weeks ago. It’s episode 106 - Better Pricing Strategies for Accountants. There was so much more to talk about that I invited him to come back on to continue the conversation about pricing. One of the problems that CPAs run into in their practices is that they tend to fall back on two methodologies for pricing: billing by the hour, and flat rate, which tends to be a cost-plus version of billing by the hour. Thes...2020-11-1156 minBusiness Strategy for CPA's102 A High-Margin CPA Firm: It’s Easier than You ThinkToday we're talking about your business. Is it a lot of work? Do you spend it too many hours or more hours than you want in front of a screen toiling away? At the end of a long work week, do you ever wonder if there was an easier way? Many CPAs work really hard. And when I say hard, I mean, lots of hours, lots of clients, endless fires. And it can seem like hard is the path, and it can be the only path that you see. But what I want you to k...2020-09-0913 minBusiness Strategy for CPA's097 Get Reading Outside the Accounting BoxWhat’s on your summer reading list? Now that the July 15th deadline is behind us, hopefully you have a bit more discretionary time to read the latest releases on finances. Now, I don't need to tell you why to read books, but I will anyways: because you want to work smarter. You want to set yourself apart and you want to find forward-thinking ways of adding high value to your clients so that you can start working less and earning more. In my reading, I learned that double-entry accounting dates from 14th-century Ita...2020-08-0510 minBusiness Strategy for CPA's081 Time to Rethink Your Pricing Strategy? with Ron Baker, Founder of VeraSage InstituteToday’s guest is Ron Baker. Ron is the founder of VeraSage Institute—the leading think tank dedicated to educating professionals internationally. He is the author of seven best-selling books, including Professional’s Guide to Value Pricing and his latest book The Soul of Enterprise: Dialogues on Business in the Knowledge Economy, co-authored with Ed Kless. Ron is also the host of the show The Soul of Enterprise: Business in the Knowledge Economy, which you can find both as a podcast and on VoiceAmerica.com. As a leading thinker in value-pricing, I wanted you to hear fr...2020-04-1546 min