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Acquisitions Organic Growth

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Acquisitions and Organic Growth Aren't Competing Strategies

The Top 100 accounting firms grew 8.58% last year, according to Accounting Today. The profession also recorded 225 mergers in the same period, nearly...

Top-Line Growth: The First Lever

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Top-Line Growth: The First Lever

This is the first deep dive in our Enterprise Value Model series. If you missed the introduction from Brian Blaha, start here: Five Levers That...

Five Levers That Separate Firms

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Five Levers That Separate Firms Building Enterprise Value from Firms Talking About it

Most professional services firms are still built to distribute income. While that model made sense for decades, it no longer sets firms up to win....

Building Enterprise Value as an Independent Firm

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Building Enterprise Value as an Independent Firm

Brian Blaha, CPA, Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Winding River Consulting, joins host Rob Brown on the Inside Public Accounting Podcast...

Developing judgement, not just technical skill

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Developing Judgment, Not Just Technical Skill: A Materiality Framework for Leadership Readiness in the AI Era

As AI commoditizes technical work, professional services firms are confronting an expensive lesson: knowledge is no longer the differentiator....