The Renew Blog

September 28, 2024

The Tax Deadline Grind: How many more are you going to do like this?

Every year, tax season hits like a freight train. If you’re honest with yourself, you’re not sure how many more seasons you can survive like this. There’s a better way—firms that have made key changes now have more control over their capacity, their clients, and their time. If you want to break free from the tax season grind, you need to start making changes now.

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It all begins with mindset

March 12, 2024

The keys to working a 40-hour week in your accounting firm

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Breaking Free: The Urgent Call for Accountants to Rethink Success Metrics

March 5, 2024

The world of public accounting is at a crossroads. For too long, the profession has hinged on traditional metrics that, frankly, haven't delivered the results accountants deserve. Although many firms are doing fine financially, it comes at a cost – huge partner (and team) billable hours, leading to burn out and stress and inevitably, pressure on the home front.

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Accountants: If Not Now, When?

February 5, 2024

Transforming a firm comes down to mindset and focus. Most accountants grew up in humble backgrounds and as a result have scarcity mindsets. A scarcity mindset suggests a bird in hand is better than two in the bush. Example, I’m better off doing a 1040 for $500 than converting a current business client to $8K per year. I’m trapped and fortunate to be here. Are you?

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Ending Tax Season Insanity: A Renewed Approach for Accountants

January 18, 2024

Every year, tax season brings familiar challenges: long hours, client overload, and the relentless pressure to meet deadlines. Let's face it – tax season is brutal. You're drowning in paperwork, the phone won’t stop ringing, you’re bombarded with emails and client demands seem to grow every year. This constant stress leads to burnout for partners and team members, impacting both your firm and personal life.

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Navigating the Hype: A Realistic Look at Accounting's Future

December 1, 2023

Change, change, change, enough already! It drives me nuts and you too. There is too much click bait and propaganda in the accounting industry about what’s going to change. These narratives are primarily driven by the media (more clicks please) and by software companies (buy more software to solve your firm woes).

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Break Free from the Brutal Tax Season Cycle: Exploit low hanging fruit for 2024

November 17, 2023

As we step into the calm following the Fall deadlines storm, the battle scars are fresh, and the exhaustion is real. For many accounting firms, this period was nothing short of brutal, with relentless hours poured into meeting deadlines. The mere thought of the looming 2024 tax season is enough to reignite the anxiety and stress that's barely had a chance to simmer down. But here lies the pivotal question: Are you ready to break free from this vicious cycle?

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It's time to send the steak back!

November 4, 2023

Another fall deadline is behind us, congrats! It’s time, after a break, to get focused on NOT repeating tax season. It’s time to hit your Pareto for Profit ™ hard, refine your offering, get focused on the right clients and transform your firm and life. Block the time and make the firm the #1 client. It’s time to send the steak back!

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Stop the Tax Season Torture: 5 Must-Make Shifts for Accountants

October 7, 2023

Tax season isn’t getting any easier. In fact, we have heard frequently that 2023 was much worse than expected and that a ‘new normal’ appears to have arisen, driven by heightened client expectations post-Covid. But it doesn't have to be that way. Here are some no-nonsense reality checks that'll turn your firm—and life—around.

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How We're Solving 5 Problems Accounting Firms Face

September 7, 2023

As the fall deadlines pan out with familiarity for many firms (are you working 80-hour weeks, missing family dinners, and wondering why you ever became a partner?), perhaps it’s time to figure out how best to address some of these issues with a view to making next year very different.

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