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One Roof, Two Businesses: What Nobody Tells You About Running Payroll and Accounting Together (opens the original)
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Nobody starts an accounting firm with a clean box. You start with client one, then client ten, and somewhere in there you said yes to payroll, yes to inventory software, yes to the FedEx exec with real estate in four states, because the mortgage was due and the mortgage does not care about your ideal client profile.Matt and Mike talk through what it actually takes to unwind that, and then what happens when the thing you kept turns into a second business with its own staffing model, its own cycle
The Version of Our Firm We Don't Put on the Conference Stage (opens the original)
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Every firm has a version of itself it shows on stage. This is the other version.Mike and Matt open the books on what they still haven't figured out. The staff accountant role they hired for ten years ago doesn't exist anymore. The comp plan still pays people to keep the work instead of pass it down. And behind the "this is the only way we do it" presentation is a client who's still on desktop for a reason nobody wants to explain out loud.In this episode:• Why the job you hired for five years ago
Ideal vs. Reality: What We Still Haven't Figured Out (opens the original)
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New studio, new building, and the first episode recorded in it — which turned into a looser, more honest conversation than usual. Matt and Mike open with the move. Nine to twelve months of planning, three weeks of the entire team working remote while the building came together, and a hard-earned verdict from Matt: whoever moves this building next will be the new owner of the firm. But the bigger takeaway wasn't the logistics. It was what happened when everyone came back. The energy flipped on th
If I Started My Firm From Scratch Today, I'd Build It Completely Different (opens the original)
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One Step Better now has its own YouTube channel! Subscribe here so you never miss an episode: @OneStepBetterPod Last episode Matt and Mike asked whether the entry-level staff accountant role still makes sense in a world of AI. This one zooms out: if the work is changing, what does the whole firm look like? Matt spent 45 minutes explaining how his team is built today. Pods, a director of accounting, team leads, managers, senior accountants, staff, interns, a production assistant, plus an offsho
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