Who's Really the BOSS?
"Who's Really the BOSS?" highlights the joys and challenges of running a CPA firm with your spouse or family. From hiring and terminating to improving capacity, cash flow, and culture, our conversations cover leadership, operations, and current accounting industry challenges.
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Building a Firm That Fits Your Values (opens the original)
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Sandra Koch returns to share how she's built a firm around flexibility, trust, responsiveness, and genuine care for both her team and clients. She discusses leading a fully remote team, creating a people-first culture, and why aligning your firm with your own values is more sustainable than trying to follow someone else's blueprint. Introducing Collective by DBA https://collective.cpa https://www.linkedin.com/company/collectivebydba Learn More About Dillon Business Advisors https://www.dillonadv
The Tax Advisory Plan: Pricing, Team Structure, and Why It's Not on Our Website (opens the original)
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Marcus and Rachel break down their Tax Advisory Plan (TAP), the $500/month individual tax offering built for high-income clients, referrals, and business owners exiting their companies. They cover pricing, onboarding fees, the "team of three" structure, and why they deliberately cap new TAP clients at 10 per year and keep the service off their website. Sponsors Discover.AI - discover.ai Introducing Collective by DBA https://collective.cpa https://www.linkedin.com/company/collectivebydba Learn Mo
Stop Guessing, Start Hiring: A FACT-Driven System for Accounting Firms (opens the original)
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Fletcher Wimbush of Discover.ai returns to break down his FACT system for hiring at accounting firms: Focus, Attract, Candidate Evaluation, and Training. He explains why most firms don't have a job posting problem, they have a talent market access problem, and why waiting until you're desperate to hire almost always leads to a bad match. Marcus and Rachel dig into real examples from their own hiring history, from overvaluing big-name resumes to the questions that actually reveal whether a candid
How We Landed 20 New Clients in 6 Months (opens the original)
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Marcus and Rachel set a goal of 15 new monthly clients for all of 2026 — and blew past it by June, landing 20. They walk through the $101,415 in onboarding fees that came with those clients, why 85% of that growth traces back to referrals and existing relationships instead of paid marketing, and what a 75% jump in PTO usage tells them about their new flexible time-off policy. Sponsors Discover.AI - discover.ai Introducing Collective by DBA https://collective.cpa https://www.linkedin.com/company/
Building a Director-Led Accounting Firm (opens the original)
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Marcus and Rachel break down how Dillon Business Advisors moved from an owner-led firm to a director-led one, walking through the seven components they use to define every director role, from ownership and KPIs to the weekly question that keeps people accountable. They also share how scorecards and monthly reviews keep decisions from flowing back up to the owners. It's a practical framework for firms that have outgrown a single person holding everything together. Sponsors Discover.AI - discover.
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