// Industries · Accounting and bookkeeping practices

Your process is valuable. Your clients' returns stay home.

How a practice runs an engagement (requests, review notes, templates, internal discussion) is written down in your practice-management system. That process trail can be evaluated. Client tax returns and workpapers can't, and they never leave.

The systems your team already writes in

Nothing new to install. What counts is years of work on the same systems, connected across them.

Systems accounting and bookkeeping practices commonly run: Karbon, Canopy, TaxDome, CCH Axcess, BILL, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace.

// Your written record

Years of connected work

7 systems, one trail

What's in, and what stays out

Typically licensable

  • Engagement workflow and task history
  • Review notes on process
  • Internal templates and checklists
  • Internal chat about how work gets done

Stays out

  • Tax returns and return information
  • Client workpapers and ledgers
  • Audit files
  • Anything identifying a client's finances

Who counts toward the 30

Count staff accountants, bookkeepers, managers and admin who work in your systems daily.

Questions owners ask

Isn't client information off-limits?
Yes. Tax return information has its own federal rules, and it stays out entirely. What's evaluated is your internal process.
We're an audit firm.
Audit practices aren't a fit; the independence rules make it impractical.
We're under 30 people.
Some programs accept smaller accounting practices. Book a data consultation and we'll tell you which.

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