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Article: Listening to voices in the wilderness. (small accounting firms are squeezed by availability of accounting software that permits businesses to do their own tax work)(At Large)(Column)
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- Accounting Today
- Article date:
- November 24, 1997
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Sometimes the small CPA practitioner must feel like a voice in the wilderness. Is anyone out there listening?
Bob Israeloff, former American Institute of CPAs chairman two years ago and managing partner of Israeloff, Trattner & Co. of Valley Stream, N.Y., a 1 partner, two-office firm, says that he is.
"I feel I'm one of the few people who recognize that the computer has almost completely revolutionized small-firm practice" says Israeloff. "Clients can now do their own write-up and tax work with little effort. And such work may soon disappear completely."
So where will the small practitioner go from there? Israeloff says a new kind of ...