Clients care about the quality of the work they receive, and they want accurate answers, timely responses, and advice they can rely on. Whether AI was used somewhere along the way is usually less important than the end result.
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Firm leaders want a clear answer to whether the accounting talent shortage is easing, so they can plan staffing with some confidence. We hear a...
Most leaders of independent firms talk about consolidation as a general condition, a pressure that hangs over the whole profession and seems to help...
For most of the profession’s history, the accounting relationship has been organized around the close. Work was scheduled against the calendar,...
Every managing partner can name the clients who no longer belong on the roster. Ask privately and the list forms within seconds: the client whose...
The decision about which firm to hire is largely settled before a prospective client ever picks up the phone. By the time the call comes, they have...
A browser tab open beside a tax return is not an AI strategy. Thomson Reuters’ 2025 research on generative AI in professional services found that...
On July 23, 2026, HubSpot launched Agent Hub in public beta, and every accounting firm serious about growth should take notice. Agent Hub gives firms...
Most accounting firms do not have a CRM problem. They have an adoption problem. The software may be perfectly capable, implementation may have been...
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...
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,...