Jason M. Blumer, CPA.CITP, CFE is managing shareholder of Blumer & Associates, CPAs, PC. He wears flip flops and jeans, says "dude" a lot, and often works in coffee shops with headphones blaring the latest Bloomberg podcasts (though he doesn't understand most of it). Jason loves new game-changing cloud technology and plays rock and roll too loud. His daily duties include consulting, process design, blogging, marketing and business development, innovative thinking, coaching, practice management, and acting as a change agent. As the industry has changed, the need for new CPA firm leadership has emerged for the younger generation ready to move into the world of firm ownership. Jason founded the THRIVEal +CPA Network to accommodate the needs of this new younger generation. The THRIVEal +CPA Network looks to enhance and change the CPA profession based on the foundational tenets of Community, Collaboration, Technology and Innovation.
05/26/2011 - 10:11 - 1344 reads
My friend Doug Sleeter of The Sleeter Group recently put a post up on his blog related to Xero, the accounting software company from New Zealand, and how they are changing the process of accounting.
Here is my long-winded philosophical response:
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05/13/2011 - 12:05 - 534 reads
If future CPAs want to be successful in this profession, the time has now come when you are Required to be Innovative. That's right! You can't keep doing what you've always done and expect to continue to grow the way you've always grown. The time is coming when slacker firms may go out of business if they don't Innovate in their space.
You are now required to innovate (something CPAs suck at)!
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04/25/2011 - 09:30 - 1541 reads
I had an innovative younger CPA come to meet with me earlier this year with the question of how to leave his firm. Let's call him "dude." See, the firm dude was in was totally messed up. Its a huge firm with many offices and many partners (blah, blah, blah). But, as usual, they are doing stupid stuff. This guy that came to visit me was a Manager, and knew a few other Managers at the firm. If they would complete audits too soon, then the partners would call them and scold them! "You need to be billing hours," they would say.
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04/11/2011 - 09:21 - 661 reads
When we let our software reside in the cloud, we are using the cloud as our platform to operate our firms. Are you doing that? One aspect of this move to become virtual that I didn't anticipate was change. It's a change I love because I never know if I'll wake up one morning to find that my cloud software provider has released a load of new updates and features I get to play with. Yeah, goody. I often dig in to see if these changes could potentially help a client that was struggling in a certain area.
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03/06/2011 - 13:44 - 731 reads
That equation is the foundation of our profession's client management practice theories. Good clients are the ones with a checkbook and a pulse. Not to mention that the checks don't often clear. That sucks, and so does our profession's theories.
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