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Unique Cpa Featured Image Ep 121 Roger Knecht - Building The Premier Accounting Firm - Tri-Merit

With Roger Knecht

Episode 121 of The Unique CPA features Roger Knecht sharing with Randy the key aspects of developing an accounting firm. Roger is President of Universal Accounting Center, a postsecondary school for accounting professionals, and the UAC has developed training programs that include identifying core service offerings, sales and marketing methods, pricing models, and providing value-added advisory services to help businesses grow and increase profits.

About the Guest

Knecht - Building The Premier Accounting Firm - Tri-MeritRoger Knecht is the President of the Universal Accounting Center, a postsecondary school for accounting professionals. Since 1979 Universal Accounting Center has offered training, certifications, coaching and support to benefit accounting, bookkeeping, and tax professionals. Roger has served as President since 2014, though he has been with UAC for nearly 25 years. 

Roger also hosts the Building the Premier Accounting Firm podcast, where he discusses strategies for maximizing the potential of your accounting practice. He received his bachelor’s in communications from Brigham Young University in 1996.

Meet the Host

Randy Crabtree, CPA

Randy CrabtreeRandy Crabtree, co-founder and partner of Tri-Merit Specialty Tax Professionals, is a widely followed author, lecturer and podcast host for the accounting profession.

Since 2019, he has hosted the “The Unique CPA,” podcast, which ranks among the world’s 5% most popular programs (Source: Listen Score). You can find articles from Randy in Accounting Today’s Voices column, the AICPA Tax Adviser (Tax-saving opportunities for the housing and construction industries) and he is a regular presenter at conferences and virtual training events hosted by CPAmerica, Prime Global, Leading Edge Alliance (LEA), Allinial Global and several state CPA societies. Crabtree also provides continuing professional education to top 100 CPA firms across the country.

Schaumburg, Illinois-based Tri-Merit is a niche professional services firm that specializes in helping CPAs and their clients benefit from R&D tax credits, cost segregation, the energy efficient commercial buildings deduction (179D), the energy efficient home credit (45L) and the employee retention credit (ERC).

Prior to joining Tri-Merit, Crabtree was managing partner of a CPA firm in the greater Chicago area. He has more than 30 years of public accounting and tax consulting experience in a wide variety of industries, and has worked closely with top executives to help them optimize their tax planning strategies.

   

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