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April 25, 2026

You don't have to repeat tax season

Tax season doesn't have to look like this every year. The firms that look different next April are the ones making different decisions this week.

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Why Benchmarking Matters: How Renew Firms Stay Ahead

February 22, 2025

What gets measured gets improved. Learn how Renew’s annual benchmarking helps accounting firms track profitability, capacity, and growth year over year.

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Why Your Accounting Firm Needs a Vision for 2025

January 4, 2025

A clear vision isn’t just ambitious — it creates alignment and momentum. Read more...

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How to Build a Thriving Accounting Firm by Saying “No”

December 14, 2024

Success doesn’t come from saying “yes” to everything. It comes from being intentional about where you invest your time and energy.

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Stuck with the Wrong Clients. Is It Time to Cut the Dead Weight

October 19, 2024

Your time is valuable—don’t waste it on non-target clients who demand everything, yet never appreciate the value you bring. Instead, focus on putting yourself first for once!

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The State of the Accounting Industry

April 24, 2024

History doesn't repeat itself. Humans do. Another tax filing season has passed and many accounting firms that had hoped the post COVID world would be kinder and gentler have found that reality has not quite lived up to the hype.

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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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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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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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Why CAS, the supposed savior of the profession, has created even more problems (and what to do about it)

August 13, 2023

Client Accounting Services (CAS) was not too long ago hailed as the savior of the accounting profession. ‍We were promised that embracing CAS would fill the gap left by the demise of compliance work (still has not happened and not going anywhere anytime soon!), but the reality tells a different story.

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