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Building a Successful Accounting Firm #shorts

Name: Building a Successful Accounting Firm #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-11-24T10:00:08+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: A short YouTube video by Peter Vander Wall arguing that to build an accounting firm people love, owners should prioritize long-term, hard decisions over…

24 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Peter Vander Wall arguing that to build an accounting firm people love, owners should prioritize long-term, hard decisions over short-term quick wins. The speaker frames tax accounting and financial advisory as traditionally 'boring' but says long-horizon choices will compound and create deeper impact over decades rather than months.

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The secret to building an accounting firm people love and are actually excited to work with isn't what you think. Tax accounting, financial advisory, these are all traditionally boring topics, right? But if you're trying to build something truly great, something that impacts people's lives in a deeper way, then you need to get them excited about that. In my opinion, the single decision you need to make today that will waterfall down into everything else is this. Every decision you make needs to be done on the longest time horizon possible. Don't make decisions that create quick wins. Choose what's hard now. Make that deposit today to reap those rewards well into the future. See, most business owners make decisions based on how this impacts you 30 days from now, when in reality you need to be thinking, how does this impact me 30 years from now?