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The Financial Services of a Dallas CPA Firm

The Startup Magazine

Becoming a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) elevates a person’s standing among business contacts and peers in the accounting industry and clients and regulatory authorities. A CPA must have completed a certain amount of required coursework, pass a challenging exam consisting of four parts, and agree to abide by a code of ethics.

CPA 111
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6 “Shark Tank” Questions Every Business Owner Should Be Able To Answer

YoungUpstarts

By Richard Weinberger, PhD, CPA, CEO of the Association of Accredited Small Business Consultants and author of “ Propel Your Small Business to Success: Accelerated Actions to Maximize Profit “ If you had to stand before the shark investors in ABC’s “Shark Tank,” would you get stumped by their questions?

CPA 160
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Crucial Things You Need To Know About Your First External Audit For Series B

YoungUpstarts

by Bryce Welker, founder of Crush The CPA Exam. Before your financial statements can be filed with the SEC or distributed outside of your business, an external auditor must ensure your records adhere to GAAP. A certified public accountant (CPA) will perform the audit. Revenue Recognition.

CPA 165
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Business Prenup: What To Do Before You Start A Company With A Partner

YoungUpstarts

A CPA provides input on tax structure and metrics, and assists with due diligence related to your industry. If you stop working for the company, how will that impact your voting and distribution rights? Think about your employee and ownership hats. Must you wear both simultaneously? Are they separate or interdependent?

Partner 208
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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When we started the company, I didn’t want it to be called “Grunden & Hale” as is the standard for CPA firms because I envisioned the firm becoming much larger than just me and Adam. Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States. And I was right.

Naming 150
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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

The spread between your LTV and blended CPA determines either your profitability or your rate of growth, and a high valuation depends on balancing these two factors. To the extent that you have good word-of-mouth, activation or retention, these factors tend to drive down your CPA or drive up your LTV, and so are nice bonuses.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Expedia accounted for 24.5%