When my brother, my sister and myself—all of us CPAs—bought out my father from our CPA firm, he joked that it took three people to replace him. My father had…
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My partner and I opened our own CPA practice in 2003. We had both been working at a larger “old school” firm which had fallen behind on technology and education….
Two years out of school, I went to work as a CPA in my father’s accounting firm. Eighteen years later, I became the sole owner and practitioner while my father…
I had been running my own CPA firm for three years and was experiencing levels of stress I had never before imagined. Prior to this, I had been working as…
I’ve had a full-service accounting firm in Dallas since 1987, but I got to be a practice owner in a roundabout way. First I sold computer hardware and services for…
After six years of working in Big Four firms and another year in the Fortune 500, I opened my own accounting practice. Although I enjoyed my employment in the corporate…
I have been in public practice for 27 years and was in a partnership for close to 17 of those years. In 1997, I moved to another area of the…
Before Sterling, I’d run my business my way and found myself utterly frustrated with the way I was managing it. It was miserable. I didn’t handle staff well or effectively…
Hollywood loves runaways. In 1913 it released the movie The Runaway Freight and followed that up with The Runaway Balloon, The Runaway Taxi, The Runaway Train, The Runaway Bus and…
Our practice has always been very profitable, but a couple of years ago, we had reached the end of the line. Bob (Bob Scott, partner) and I were each working…
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