Gartner’s Chief of Research, Brian Kropp, has a name for what happens when a firm grows faster than it can hold onto itself: culture debt, the accumulation of decisions that trade long-term cultural health for short-term business gains. It works...
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KPMG Law passed its first anniversary in February, and the year since launch turned out to be more interesting than the original headline suggested....
The private equity wave reshaping the accounting profession has generated plenty of headlines about deal volume, valuation multiples, and the firms...
Accounting firms are ahead of their clients on AI adoption. The AICPA made this explicit in its 2025 AI in Accounting Report: 'Firms are further...
More than 70 percent of M&A transactions fail to deliver their anticipated strategic and financial value within three years, according to PwC and...
Revenue growth tells you that something is working, but revenue mix tells you whether what's working will keep working. Two firms at identical...
The competitive landscape for independent accounting firms has changed more in the past four years than in the previous four decades. As of 2026,...
The traditional accounting firm valuation model is fracturing, and where your firm lands in the new range will be determined largely by one variable:...
If you read our article last year on CPA licensure reform, you may remember that Kentucky was on the holdout list. Seven states were still clinging...
The deadline has passed, the returns are filed, and if your firm is like most, the first week of May looks a lot like exhaling. That exhale is...
On April 7, 2026, EY announced the global rollout of enterprise-scale agentic AI across its assurance practice, embedding a multi-agent framework...
Most mid-market firms wait until Q4 to begin strategic planning, and that timing is precisely why most strategic plans do not produce results. By the...
A belief is circulating in professional services firms that AI will eventually make the tools they rely on today obsolete. The reasoning sounds...
Why accounting firm acquisitions succeed, or stall, and how to manage the pace of change. The accounting profession is in the middle of one of the...
Accounting Firms Should Embrace AI Generative AI has produced a predictable reaction across the professional workforce: anxiety. Employees are...
Growth is exciting until the foundational operating model begins to crack.