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Accounting VoicesAccounting Voices is a senior conversation platform for accounting firm leaders navigating AI, private equity, consolidation, talent pressure and relevance. Author: Rob Brown
Accounting Voices is the only accounting show built for boardroom-level leadership conversations. Hosted by Rob Brown, it exists to interpret the structural forces placing accounting firms and their leaders under sustained pressure. AI. Private equity. Consolidation. Talent strain. Shifting client expectations. Operating models under stress. These are not emerging trends. They are realities reshaping how firms operate and how leaders make decisions right now. Where other accounting shows report news, share technical updates or offer tactical advice, Accounting Voices operates at a different altitude. This is a senior leadership platform built around structured seasonal inquiry. Each season focuses on one defined tension facing the profession. A curated cohort of senior firm leaders records focused conversations answering the same five disciplined questions. The result is not opinion or commentary. It is comparable cross-firm intelligence on how leadership decisions are actually being made inside accounting firms today. This format is unique in the profession. No other show asks the same structured questions of multiple senior leaders. No other show produces the kind of pattern recognition that emerges when managing partners, firm owners and PE-backed executives answer the same questions independently. And no other show synthesises those patterns into forward-looking interpretation designed for leaders who are accountable for outcomes and short on time. Previous seasons have examined AI reality inside firms, the future of advisory, leadership under pressure and the forces testing firm durability. Guests include firm owners and founders, managing partners, firm CEOs, PE-backed executives and senior operators from firms across North America. Every conversation is short, structured and designed to surface lived experience rather than theory. Rob Brown has conducted more than 1,000 interviews with leaders across accounting, fintech and professional services. His approach Language: en Genres: Business, Careers, Management Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Accounting Firm Owner's Decision: Sell, Merge or Hold
Episode 60
Monday, 26 October, 2026
Every year many accounting firm owners tell themselves the same thing. A couple more years, then I'll decide. Then a buyer's letter, a discreet phone call, a manager's resignation or a doctor's appointment forces the question, and the deadline is set on someone else's clock.In Part 3 of INSIDE THE SHIFT, Rob Brown sits in the owner's chair. He looks at how many accounting firms are small and owned by people nearing retirement, in the US and the UK, why buyers have never been busier and the three options most owners have: sell, merge or hold. He explains why waiting is a decision too, why buyers pay for what survives the owner and why staff are part of the deal whether they're told or not.If you're a manager, partner or senior, this one lands on you too.https://youtu.be/n9Guz4f70DMINSIDE THE SHIFT is a 12 part series on the Accounting Voices Show about what deals, AI and succession mean for the people working inside accounting firms. New episodes every Tuesday.On Fridays, watch BACKED, our sister show on capital, ownership and control in accounting firms, exclusively on YouTube and supported by INSIDE Public Accounting.
