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Opportunities in Bloom: Uncovering Midyear Client Opportunities

Spring is a time of optimism, so it's a great time for accounting firms to look for fresh opportunities to grow the business. Lauren Prosser offers five ways accounting firms can "fertilize" existing efforts in order to jump-start business and grow deeper, stronger roots with clients.
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REDW Joins Forces with RCG Plan Administration, LLC

REDW, one of the largest and most respected certified public accounting firms in the Southwest, is pleased to announce it has joined forces with RCG Plan Administration, LLC, a Phoenix-based, full- service, third-party administrator and record keeper of small and midsized businesses and Native American retirement plans.
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How to Attract New Partners from Inside and Outside Your Firm

Firms looking to add new partners need to abandon "archaic approaches" to doing so, be it with existing staff or when looking at outside candidates. This is the message from "How to Bring in New Partners," written by Marc Rosenberg of The Rosenberg Associates consulting firm.
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The One Key to a Dignified Retirement? Starting Early

The role of a financial planner and particularly a financial planner in a CPA firm, is to educate our clients that retirement planning is not about market timing. It's not about investment returns. It's all about having a consistent plan and then sticking to that plan.
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Strategies for Utilizing Permanent Life Insurance in Qualified Plans

One of the advantages offered by qualified retirement plans is the ability to acquire life insurance on plan participants using existing plan assets and future contributions to pay the premiums. This allows the plan to obtain life insurance coverage on plan participants with tax-deductible dollars.
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Eight Major Risks to Your Clients' Retirement

Everyone wants a safe, stable and certain flow of income to sustain their ideal retirement. But if you were to ask five different relatives and friends what retirement means to them, you would likely receive five different answers.
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Are You a Secret Expert?

Do you serve a particular niche especially well? Have you served clients with complex issues that took a great deal of research? Do you have more knowledge than most in a particular area of tax or accounting? If so, congratulations – you're an expert. But are you keeping your hard-earned expert status a secret?
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CPA Firms Need to Find New Ways to Build Revenue in Post-Recession World

The US accounting services industry, including CPA firms, is expected to remain in a slow-growth mode, with annual revenue expected to rise a pedestrian 1.3 percent this year, to $72.9 billion.
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Tax Season May Be Opportune Time to Market Tax Preparation Services

With less than a month left to go until the April 15 tax deadline, most tax return preparers are up to their elbows in work. Nevertheless, it might be an opportune time to land some new clients.
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What You Need to Know Before Recommending a Financial Advisor

Being able to offer sound financial planning advice for clients will require an accountant to gain certification, designation as a financial advisor, or to partner with someone who can be entrusted to serve clients well in this area.
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Johnstone, Graydon & Thompson to Merge with Scott and Company

The South Carolina CPA firms of Johnstone, Graydon & Thompson CPAs, PA and Scott and Company, LLC have entered into a letter of intent to merge on June 30, 2013.
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Chicago-Area Firms Pacion Ajder and Lipschultz, Levin & Gray Merge

The Chicago accounting firm of Pacion Ajder PC merged into the Northbrook, Illinois-based practice of Lipschultz, Levin & Gray, LLC (LLG) effective February 1, according to a press release from LLG.
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Teaming with a Financial Advisor

Recommending a financial advisor to a client is one of the most important recommendations you can make. Customers will trust your recommendation; therefore, there is a potential your future with that customer could be impacted.
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If Price Were Not a Factor, What One Problem Would You Like to Solve?

Ask your clients this one simple question and open the clients to a new perspective. In general, clients only see us providing the service that they currently receive. They know they want something more, but they don't know whether we provide it.
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Developing Authentic, Ongoing Client Relationships

Just about every day, my BMRG GAP members ask me a question similar to, "How do I grow my clients? I want to increase my revenue, so what do I do?"
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Warren Averett, LLC Announces Recent Merger

Regional CPA firm Warren Averett, LLC, continues to carry out its strategic growth plans in the Southeast with the recent merger of Atlanta-based Gifford, Hillegass & Ingwersen (GH&I) and Tampa-based Pender Newkirk & Company.
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Marketing Strategy: It's the How

How is your firm different? Since the "what" of your firm has already been defined, it may be a good idea to take a close look at the "how" of your firm as a way to set yourself apart from the competition.
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Watkins, Ward & Stafford Builds Central Mississippi Presence with White Merger

The Mississippi accounting firms of White & Company and Watkins, Ward & Stafford, PLLC (WWS) have merged, building the latter firm's presence in the state capital of Jackson.
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KPS & Co. Merges with Alan M. Gould & Co.; Now Serves Florida

KPS & Company, LLC of West Hartford, Connecticut, jump-started 2013 by announcing a merger with the accounting and tax practice of Alan M. Gould & Co. of West Palm Beach, Florida, KPS’s first venture outside its home state of Connecticut.
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Calogero & Associates Combines with Dermody, Burke & Brown

Calogero & Associates, a Utica, New York, accounting and consulting firm, has combined its practice with that of the accounting firm of Dermody, Burke & Brown, CPAs, LLC, based in Syracuse, New York.
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