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The Platt Group publishes two award-winning publications: the monthly newsletter, INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA), and the annual IPA National Benchmarking Report. The Platt Group also hosts The PRIME Symposium, a two-day hands-on learning event held annually in November.

With nearly 30 years of experience in independent reporting, surveying and benchmarking, IPA provides accounting firm leaders across the nation with financial and operational data, practical ideas and in-depth analysis.

Our Mission is…

To provide firm leadership with the best practice tools, management resources and analysis needed to achieve continual growth, profitability and ongoing improvement.
To provide the profession with an independent, first-class confidential tool to empower and guide firm leaders to continual growth, process improvement and best practices for firmwide operations.
To bring top leaders in the profession together to share, educate and empower the profession using the IPA platform, whether in writing, in person or in a firm setting, with a fresh and flexible approach.

IPA Newsletter

IPA 100 and IPA 200

IPA Best of the Best

Benchmarking Survey

National Benchmarking Report

Shout-Outs

Our annual survey partnership with INSIDE Public Accounting and The Platt Group was a huge success! Gaining access to IPA’s proven expertise in the surveying and benchmarking arena is another example of how PrimeGlobal can help our member firms grow. IPA’s in-depth view of the profession gave our association great confidence in the survey results and the analysis.

- Michelle Arnold, Chief Regional Officer North America, PrimeGlobal

I love our profession and completely respect The Platt Group and INSIDE Public Accounting for their consistent contribution to make our profession better. I consistently refer firm leaders to the IPA benchmarking report and appreciate the in-depth reviews and analysis of data from firms across our profession.

- Sam Allred, Director Upstream Academy

INSIDE Public Accounting is an invaluable resource partner in our work with leading CPA firms. We have many mutual firms in common and that provides a great synergy for the type of consultative service we provide. IPA’s research on leading CPA firm operating metrics is used by all of our consulting departments. In addition the annual PRIME Symposium provides a wonderful forum for intimate dialogues with the key decision makers in the nation’s top accounting firms.

-Al Prentice, 1st Global

INSIDE Public Accounting/Platt Group has been an invaluable resource to me in the management of our firm over the last number of years. I have been educated on current industry trends and best practices through their monthly newsletter, annual benchmarking reports and attendance at their annual PRIME Symposium.

- Stephan H. Wasserman, CPA/ABV, Managing Partner Gursey | Schneider LLP

INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA) is the award-winning monthly newsletter offering “INSIDER information” for the innovative CPA firm.

Survey

The IPA National Benchmarking Report is one of the most complete, independent, up-to-date sets of economic and management statistics available.

PRIME Symposium

Learn from the successes of IPA’s Best of the Best firms at this year’s PRIME Symposium, set for November 2–4 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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