IMGCAP(1)]Running a professional services business requires the ability to manage multiple types of strong minded and willed individuals.
It works, but it needs a discipline and a model to follow.
Here is mine:
Accounting Firm Business Model
• Delegating permits leveraging of work.
• Leveraging creates opportunities for partners and staff.
• Delegating signifies trust that what is needed to be done will be done the way it needs to be done by the due date.
• The firm’s system should create a method of training, supervision, oversight and confidence that the work will be done the way it needs to be done.
• The system establishes a structure to make it easier to delegate and manage.
• Checklists are part of the system by making it easier to lay out what needs to be done and how and in what order.
• Not following the system, including not using the checklists the right way, causes added work, time, supervision, stress and destroys the business model.
• Not following the system reduces profits, growth and opportunities.
Edward Mendlowitz, CPA, is partner at