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You need to fire yourself from your accounting firm

Name: You need to fire yourself from your accounting firm
Uploaded: 2025-03-12T23:05:05+00:00
Duration: 31 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: Peter Vander Wall tells accounting firm owners to stop doing client work and start managing the business instead. Most owners spend 90% of their time on…

12 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Peter Vander Wall tells accounting firm owners to stop doing client work and start managing the business instead. Most owners spend 90% of their time on comfortable tasks that don't actually help the firm grow. You need to decide who does what, how many people you hire, and where the money goes.

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You're fired. You're not allowed to do any client work anymore. Your only job is to be an allocator of resources. Here's what I mean by that. You go, what resources does this business have at its disposal that I can shift around to create the best possible service? Is it better to keep the team lean and for me, the owner, to take on more profit? Is it better for the firm if I, the owner, spend more time in client delivery or more time on sales and marketing? And then you don't do what you want to do. You do what's best for the firm because I guarantee 90% of what you're doing is comfortable for you, but it's not the best thing for your firm.