CPAs

After working for a large accounting firm and as the accounting manager for a Fortune 500 company, 30 years ago I opened my own CPA practice in Leominster, Massachusetts. Although…

After 14 years of managing my own practice, growth slowed and became tougher to maintain. We were doing okay by most metrics and I was making more money than most,…

I started my own CPA firm in my home in 1992, doing tax returns at my kitchen table. By 1997, I had moved the practice into its own office space….

Burnt out after 5 years, I had decided to sell my CPA practice. I was tired of endless staff problems, and working too many hours with too little money to…

My father had been a pharmacist who was tied to his store from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. He had nine children and wanted us to become doctors,…

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…

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…