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CPAmerica Advantage Former CPAConnect member makes the jump to CPAmerica
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coin and has a unique perspective on the process In February 2019, member firm Grooms & Harkins, P.C. (Grooms & Harkins), of Casper, Wyoming, officially joined the Grooms & Harkins, P.C.is headquartered in ranks of CPAmerica. However, Casper, Wyoming the firm is rather unique. They were formerly with our alliance member CPAConnect and felt the need to make the change to CPAmerica. We spoke to Managing Partner Nicholas Grooms, of Grooms & Harkins to find out more about the move. We asked Grooms if he could tell us about his firm's transition from CPAConnect to becoming a member of CPAmerica. Groom started, "It's been an interesting transition for us because we felt so comfortable in CPAConnect. But at the same time, because of the relationship that exists between the two different organizations, the transition was seamless. Knowing Alan Deichler, Grace Horvath and D’Yan Davis at CPAmerica made it very easy for us during this time to go from one group to the next. So in some ways it felt the same, other than that there were different people at the meetings. The way the transition happened was another reason we were so happy with our membership in CPAConnect.
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"When the founders of our firm, Ted President's Corner - Alan Deichler P. 4 Grooms and Chuck Harkins, started with CPAConnect, we can go back and see a distinct point on the timeline of our firm when things started to change for us for the better, whether it was growth or positive changes in the way that we did business. It was always something that the founders felt was an investment that we got a lot of return on and because of that, CPAmerica's 2019 International we actively participated in CPAConnect. Group Meeting is set for Fort As we continued through our membership Lauderdale, Florida. The luxurious Ritz-Carlton, Fort Lauderdale will and time passed, Alan Deichler started host the event on Dec. 2-5. to notice that we were a firm that was The meeting will help expand your growing fairly well, in the context of being resources to identify and capture a firm in Casper, Wyoming." international markets. For more info on the CPAmerica website,
visit and sign in at: http://tinyurl. Although Grooms said his firm was com/y26j8b56 always aware of CPAmerica, but they d id not have a rea l relat ionsh ip w it h a ny firm in CPAmerica. "Being isolated here in Wyoming was a big part of that," said Grooms, "But back in the day, we knew there were some metrics (revenue, size of firm, that sort of thing) for membership in CPAmerica. When we first joined CPAConnect, we set those metrics as lofty goals that we wanted to achieve,
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Preferred Provider Spotlight: Precision Payroll of America Paul Sivak, principal of Precision Payroll of America, spoke about the offering that Precision Payroll offers to CPAmerica members as one of our Preferred Providers. Sivak said, "Our first client and our first employee still work together after 35 years. We are a full-service payroll company. We have payroll services and an array of different products within those payroll services to manage all sorts of clients and all sizes of clients. I think our largest client right now has about 2,500 employees and our smallest client is a one-person company that does payroll yearly. When I say full-service, that includes HR benefits or modules within the
software. We have been with CPAmerica for about 15 years now as a Preferred Provider." Precision Payroll is well-suited to deal with CPAmerica members. Sivak explained, "We hired someone that is a former CPAmerica member. His name is Bob Farrell. He was a CPAmerica member back in 2010. He is now with us as our CPA and he has 42 years of background as a CPA. He is going to be working with us very closely and with CPAmerica firms because being that he is a CPA, he can really talk the Precision Payroll story as well as relate to all the other CPA firms and members. He knows what the association
is all about." Precision Payroll also offers a 10 percent marketing service fee for each referral. Sivak explained, "What we do is we work with CPAmerica and CPAConnect firms and any time that we do, they get a revenue share and the CPAs themselves also get a revenue share. However, that's not always the case because many times the firms will pass along that revenue share to their clients so that they pay less."
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