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Client advisory services have already moved to the next phase

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Client advisory services have already moved to the next phase

The accounting profession has been listening to the klaxon now for close to a decade: CAS! CAS! CAS! If you haven’t heard professional leaders tout client advisory services in their speeches, you’ve heard peers discuss them at mixers or read...

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Yes, I fired my clients (and why it’s ok)

Somehow in a world where acquiring customers is a key to growth (and tricky one at that), letting one go can be the right thing to do. You’ve...

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Creating a successful end-to-end CAS engagement | Botkeeper

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Creating a successful end-to-end CAS engagement

When many firms start a Client Advisory Services (CAS) practice, they have a tendency to jump in the same way they might if they were starting a tax...

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Crafting your accounting innovation strategy

Automation across a wide range of professions and industries has become so commonplace that it’s almost a cliché. And the benefits of technology are...

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How is manual bookkeeping like Blockbuster?

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How is manual bookkeeping like Blockbuster?

One of the truths of business in the modern era is that technology can define success. Major leaps in how work gets done, how products get made, and...

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Beat tax season slumps with these 5 tips—and even find some free time

Tax season has always been challenging: the last-minute clients, the messy paperwork, the missing documents, and—certainly not least of all—the long...

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These Practical Leadership Skills Will Keep Your Team from Burnout

Your busiest season is nearly here, again. (As if you even need anyone telling you, like you didn’t already know, right?) That said, it’s still true....

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There's a New Way to Tackle FP&A, and It Runs Like Clockwork

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There's a New Way to Tackle FP&A, and It Runs Like Clockwork

There are two huge challenges that come with growing your accounting firm beyond traditional compliance and tax work: Figuring out where to go next...

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Solve Your Capacity Planning Challenges With These 4 Action Items

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Solve Your Capacity Planning Challenges With These 4 Action Items

Achieving any form of balance or equilibrium within accounting can be like learning a new language: it’s far easier said than done. It’s more like...

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How Engineers Improve Month-End Review...in 24 Hours

We talk an awful lot about accounting and strategy related to things like increasing capacity at your firm or what to do with junior staff who have...

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To Better Serve Clients, Focus on These Soft Skills in Accounting

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To Better Serve Clients, Focus on These Soft Skills in Accounting

Accounting isn’t just about numbers. At its core, a career in accounting is a career in people and relationships. So for accounting professionals to...

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What's the Scoop on Botkeeper's Series C Round of $42 Million?

The entire Botkeeper family is excited to announce our latest news: we recently closed on a $42 million Series C round of funding! The investment was...

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Here's How to Ditch Seasonal Firm Growth for More Predictable Growth

The World Series just ended, and it got us thinking about how accounting is a bit like baseball: it’s heavy on numbers and statistics, it can be...

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