ACPEN: Eliminating Busy Season: Transforming Your Practice to Year- Round Advisory Services
Availability
Registration Required
Online Meeting
Aug 10, 2026 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
Cost
Member: $355.00
Non-Member: $455.00
Retired: $355.00
Educator & Government & Non-Profit Employee: $355.00
Credit Offered
8 CPE Credits

This course provides tax and accounting professionals with a comprehensive framework for transitioning from a compliance-driven busy season model to a sustainable, year-round advisory practice. Participants will explore strategies for expanding services into tax, financial, and estate planning.

The course addresses both transitioning existing clients and attracting new, higher-value clients while improving efficiency, client value, and revenue stability. 

  • Identify differences between compliance-based and advisory-based practice model
  • Determine strategies for transitioning existing clients to year-round planning relationships
  • Evaluate methods for attracting and retaining advisory-focused clients
  • Recognize opportunities to integrate tax, financial, and estate planning services
  • Identify operational changes required to support a year-round practice
  • Recognize risks and challenges in transitioning practice models
  • Limitations of the traditional busy season model
  • Building a year-round advisory practice
  • Transitioning existing clients
  • Attracting higher-value clients
  • Integrating tax, financial, and estate planning
  • Workflow restructuring and operations
  • Pricing and value communication
  • Implementation challenges
Basic knowledge of individual and business taxation
CPAs, EAs, tax professionals, and attorneys seeking to transition to a year-round advisory practice
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