All posts tagged: the Brain

It's worth reflecting on what Community Service Month truly reveals—not just about our community impact, but about who we're becoming as a firm. Service isn't a checkbox activity. It's a strategic question: Are we building an organization that creates value beyond billable hours? This month, our team didn't just volunteer time. We practiced the deeper work of firm transformation: Stepping outside comfort zones (much like challenging our traditional service delivery models) Building relationships without transactional expectations (the foundation of advisory evolution) Leading with purpose over process (exactly what client-centric transformation demands) The communities we serve become mirrors. They reflect whether [...]

Autumn brings something special to the entrepreneurial calendar. At Blumer CPAs, we see this season as your opportunity to celebrate the year's wins, harvest the lessons learned, and plant the seeds for an even stronger next year. Here's what separates thriving entrepreneurs from those who just survive the year-end rush: they don't wait until December 31st to assess their progress. Smart business owners use November to conduct a meaningful year-to-date review, optimize their tax position, and begin strategic planning for the year ahead. Celebrating Your Year-to-Date Wins Before diving into planning, let's talk about something entrepreneurs often skip: celebrating achievements. [...]

At Blumer CPAs, we like to consider the season of life and business.  Summer winds down, kids head back to school, and the energy in the air changes. For many business owners, September feels like a fresh start—an opportunity to reassess and reposition heading into Q4. It’s also a time of change: team members return from vacation, budgets get real, and client rhythms shift. Pair that seasonality with the demands—and opportunities—of the final quarter, and strategic preparation becomes non-negotiable.  The Power of Seasonal Reflection Businesses, like seasons, go through predictable shifts. Some find energy rising now; others begin to slow. What [...]

Over the Summer we’ve done a series of blog posts covering the Core Values at Blumer CPAs, https://blumercpas.com/,  starting with an Introduction that stressed their importance to you as a business owner and how to use them, followed by an examination of each and what they mean to different members of our firm (all linked below): Good, Great, Growing Coachable, Reliable, Resilient Transparent, Visible, Accountable Diligent, Decisive, Direct  For the final post in this series, I’d like to explore the final piece of Core Values: Implementation. Blumer is a remote firm. We are scattered across the country and see each [...]

We serve entrepreneurs at Blumer CPAs, especially those in service-based businesses. Because we serve many industries,  we have noted some commonality between these entrepreneurs. They push through a market to create new opportunities and to capture the value that others are not capturing. This means they can leave financial messes in their wake. It’s okay, because our firm is known for being able to clean those up, add structure to their businesses, and bring accountability around their financial processes. We lead entrepreneurs at Blumer CPAs.  Right now, many entrepreneurs are experiencing a familiar surge of trying to make the most [...]

At Blumer CPAs, we know that how we show up for our clients matters just as much as what we deliver. The way we work—how we think, communicate, and make decisions—has a huge impact on the businesses we serve. At Blumer CPAs, our approach to client work is rooted in three values that guide every conversation, project, and relationship: Diligent. Direct. Decisive. These aren’t just words we like—they are how we build momentum with our clients. Here’s what that looks like: Diligent: We take the time to understand what matters. When a client brings a challenge or an idea to [...]

Cash flow is the heartbeat of your business, yet most entrepreneurs are flying blind when it comes to understanding what's happening with their money. Actually, clients don’t even know to ask us this - but we typically try to sell our clients some form of cash flow reporting (and there are great tools to do this for our clients!). We do want our clients reviewing their financials monthly (in a summarized format) but monthly statements only tell you what already happened. That’s not bad, it just gives you the patterns of how you’ve been operating. Cash flow reporting is always [...]

We often hear from clients that their prior accountant ‘ghosted’ them frequently. At Blumer CPAs, we aren’t ghosts. Instead we pursue being Transparent. Visible. Accountable.  Transparent: easy to perceive or detect We pursue being transparent at Blumer CPAS. We do a lot of special projects for our clients. We state our main objective upfront so everyone, from team to client, knows our position and mindset when moving to discuss next steps. No one should have to wonder what the plan is or feel like it is being kept a secret. Our transparency can also be seen in simple email communications. [...]

Core values are fundamental principles or beliefs that guide an individual's or an organization's actions, behaviors, and decision-making. They serve as a foundation for how people or organizations operate and interact with others. Sounds pretty important for an individual to have some strong core values...of course! But what about a business who will come in contact with hundreds, maybe even thousands of people a year? What an impact a business can make by having strong core values and team members who hold themselves to those core values as well!  One of the strong core values that Blumer CPAs shoots for [...]

When taking core values as an idea and applying them to reality, it is important to have something to strive towards but be achievable as well. Blumer’s core values “Good, Great, Growing” is a perfect example of this principle in action. They are clear and easy to understand and help not only on an individual level but also companywide when everyone is working towards these values. Let’s dive deeper and look at each one individually. Good to Others Being good to others is what we learned as the golden rule in school and is the right way to act in [...]