Insights for Accountants
The latest articles and resources from the Doc Cheetah team.
Beat the Accounting Talent Crunch: Offshore Pods vs Local Hires for Lower Costs and Faster Turnarounds
## The Talent Pipeline Has Sprung a Leak Accounting seats are emptying faster than we can refill them. More than 300,000 U.S. accountants left the...
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Beat the February Capacity Crunch: 5 Workflow Fixes That Give Small Accounting Firms 30 Billable Hours Back
## Why February Feels Like a 31-Day Jammed Inbox We roll out of January flush with New-Year optimism, then bang—February hits. Deadlines stack: 1099...
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Reclaim 18 Non-Billable Hours a Day: Time-Tracking Case Study for Accounting Firms and Fractional CFOs
## Where Your Day Disappears: The Hidden Sinkholes Non-billable work chews up more time than many partners realise. The average accountant logs bar...
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15-Minute App Triage for Accountants: A Contrarian Framework to Rank High-ROI Tools and Lift Profit per Partner
## Drowning in Icons: Why App Overload Hits the Ledger Hard The average firm juggles more than 40 apps—bank feeds, portals, e-sign tools, AI bots....
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Outsmart or Onboard? How Fractional CFOs Can Turn AI Accounting Bots into a 20-Hour-a-Month Profit Engine
## AI Promises, Yet You’re Still Chasing Invoices Generative bots can draft memos, reconcile accounts, even write code. Yet half of small firms stil...
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Stop Waiting for W-2s: Fractional CFOs Unlock Real-Time Payroll to Reclaim 30 Billable Hours Before Tax Season
## Waiting on January Envelopes? That’s Your Profit Leaking Every January, partners refresh inboxes and chase clients for W-2s. The clock ticks, wo...
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The One Discovery Call Question That Lets Fractional CFOs and Accountants Charge Premium Fees Without Pushback
## Why Premium Fees Stall at the First Hello You open Zoom. Five minutes in, the prospect asks, “How much do you charge?” Conversation derailed. We’v...
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Tiered Pricing for Accounting Firms: Add 12% Profit per Partner While Clients Applaud
## Hourly Billing: the Hidden Handbrake on Growth Many small firms still live by the clock. Every six-minute block gets timed, tallied, and debated....
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Agentic AI Risks, Big-Firm Blindspots: How Small Accounting Firms Can Spot Trouble Early and Win More Profit
## Hidden Pitfalls of Agentic AI: Why Big Firms Keep Stumbling The headlines say the giants have AI “everywhere.” Peel back the curtain and you fin...
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Unlock 15% Hidden Margin: Busting 7 Advisory Service Myths Draining Profit in Small Accounting Firms
## Seven Myths Keeping Advisory Fees Off Your Ledger We see it every week: a partner tells us, “If we just pump sales, margin will follow.” Then ov...
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