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The Platt Group (PG) / INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA) provides firm leaders with innovative concepts to improve their firms. IPA’s goal is to assist accounting firm leaders in making their firms more efficient, growth-minded, profitable, and forward-looking.

IPA publishes two award-winning publications: the IPA newsletter and the annual IPA National Benchmarking Report, along with in-depth reports focused on IT, HR and firm administration.

IPA is dedicated to assisting firm leaders, and their firms, achieve their ultimate potential.

Testimonials:

I have subscribed to INSIDE Public Accounting for more than 10 years. They are one of the best sources for breaking industry news, articles, practice management analysis and best practices within the profession. All firm leaders should consider IPA as a trusted adviser in the industry. – Jamie Ellis, Katz Sapper & Miller

As a subscriber to IPA’s monthly newsletter, I find many items extremely valuable and interesting information as we manage our firms. From Platt’s Perspective, to Top Consultants to the CPA Profession various thoughts, to interesting operational statistics to trends that are affecting our profession, the IPA newsletter is full of information that our firm uses. – Kelly Bernakevitch, Executive VP, MNP LLP . . . .

At Smith & Howard, we use The IPA National Benchmarking Report for comparability with prior years to see how we can improve and help us focus on areas needing emphasis. We also look at favorable trends and be sure we are doing “more of” those things. – John Lucht, MP, Smith & Howard

Every year we look forward to hearing the latest IPA rankings of CPA firms across the US. The personalized reprints that the IPA team helps us craft each year are a great way of us being able to share our exciting news from year to year. The team is great to work with, and they are always super accommodating to make sure our individual brand and essence show through. Thank you, IPA, for the continued excellent service! – Samantha Colladay, Associate Director of Marketing, The Siegfried Group

Using IPAs reprints is invaluable in the sales process. Not only does it provide the help in qualification that we need, but it also shows a third-party endorsement that is key to validating our place in the industry. Every single proposal we issue has IPA attached as a valuable piece of information for us and for the decision maker. – Rob DeMartini, Marketing Director, Armanino LLP

We have worked with the team at INSIDE Public Accounting for several years now. They are always very professional and so easy to work with. The team is very proactive and reaches out to us with our reports before we can request them. They are always willing to go the extra mile to get us what we need. – Marilyn Olson, BKD LLP

Benchmarking

IPA offers four specialized, in-depth surveys and corresponding reports for the accounting profession. The flagship, the National Benchmarking Report is one of the most complete, independent, up-to-date sets of economic and management statistics available about the profession; the IT, HR and firm administration surveys / reports provide a more in-depth analysis of a firm’s overall operations.

The IPA Newsletter is the award-winning monthly newsletter that offers “INSIDER information” for the innovative accounting firm. IPA interviews key firm leaders, thought-leaders and consultants to help leaders across the profession take their firms to the next level.

Report Card

The Financial and Operational Report Card provides surveyed firms with a customized report of key performance indicators compared to other surveyed firms. The report card also highlights firms of similar size, along with the highest-performing firms for that survey year.

Presentations

Engage IPA, by webinar or in person at your next partner retreat, firmwide meeting or at your next association conference. IPA will delve deeper into the trends and provide detailed information on specific benchmarking areas of interest. Contact IPA for more information.

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