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Discover Your Firm’s Business Growth Potential

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What You’ll learn

The Business Development for Accounting Firms Certification (BDAFC) equips professionals with essential skills for success in the competitive accounting industry. It offers a wealth of knowledge to navigate the intricacies of modern accounting practices. Each module provides actionable insights, tools, and strategies to propel your accounting firm toward success. Covering communication, networking, LinkedIn strategies, client services, leadership, and more, this comprehensive course provides holistic insights into the world of business development.

Get Deeper Understanding of:
  • Effective communication, body language, and influence techniques.

  • Impact of effective communication on client retention and firm growth.

  • Strategies to overcome networking obstacles and build lasting relationships.

  • Leadership's role in shaping organizational culture for business success.

Recommended For:
  • This certification is created keeping in mind the requirements of a team lead, business managers, and other designations that carry the responsibilities of business growth for accounting businesses.

  • It offers valuable insights and pointers to aspiring professionals and entrepreneurs aspiring to take on the challenges of business growth.

  • It can also be helpful to Managers, Business Development Professionals, career-changers, and students aspiring to take a role in an accounting firm in understanding the role of a business development professional.

Why take a Certification Course in Business Development for Accounting Firms (BDAF) with myCPE?

Resources included
  • Handout PDFs for every Module
  • Glossary/Key Terms for every modul
  • Q&A directly with instructors.
Career Opportunities
  • Analyst: Strategic Business Development
  • Business Specialist
  • Business Development Manager
  • Director: Business Development
  • Business Consultant
  • Business Strategist
Value Addition to your skills
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Communication skills
  • Negotiation and influencing skills
  • Planning and Organizational skills

Module

Module Name

Duration

Communication Skills: How To Make a Great 1st Impression

5.5 Hours

  • To discuss how to approach, interact, and connect, make an amazing 1st impression, and make a lasting impression.
  • To explore how to have confident body language, stop being shy socially, and analyze your social confidence.
  • To recognize how to influence more people.
Instructor
Alain Wolf
Alain Wolf

Founder , Alain Wolf Coaching International Ltd

Amazing Communication Skills For Accountants

1.5 Hours

  • To discuss how to show competence and confidence when you communicate and analyze improving your written communication.
  • To explain how to master nonverbal cues to display confidence, competence, and power. 
  • To explore how to master small talk and give and receive feedback.
Instructor
Alain Wolf
Alain Wolf

Founder , Alain Wolf Coaching International Ltd

Say Yes to Assertiveness: Empower Your Communication Skills

3 Hours

  • To discover being assertive in uncomfortable situations, deal with conflicts, and manage assertive body language and communication.
  • To explore the best ways to speak up, and share your ideas and opinions. 
  • To reduce discomfort and negative emotions in uncomfortable situations, react and defend yourself, and provide helpful feedback. 
Instructor
Alain Wolf
Alain Wolf

Founder , Alain Wolf Coaching International Ltd

Email Etiquette

1 Hour

  • To identify the etiquette of email communication
  • To explore how you can adopt a writing style you need
  • To recognize tools to increase the percentage of your emails that receive a reply.
Instructor
Ryan Standil
Ryan Standil

President , Write To Excite

Five Rules For Clear Business Writing

1.5 Hours

  • To identify clarity as a key character of business writing
  • To apply clarity while using modifiers and pronouns in business writing
  • To discover using an appropriate tone and professionalism.
Instructor
Ryan Standil
Ryan Standil

President , Write To Excite

Readability In Business Writing

1 Hour

  • To recognize layout information in an effective order
  • To explore the limits of a reader’s working memory
  • To identify how a reader’s knowledge of your subject matter impacts their ability to absorb your writing.
Instructor
Ryan Standil
Ryan Standil

President , Write To Excite

Getting Connected: Where, When and How to Network to Grow Your Business

1 Hour

  • To define your ideal clients, and discuss networking strategies.
  • To determine how to network comfortably and successfully.
  • To identify and build relationships with the Center of Influence. 
Instructor
Cynthia Widlitze
Cynthia Widlitze

President , Adduco consulting

Leveraging LinkedIn for Prospecting

1 Hour

  • To define 4 characteristics of your ideal client to search on LinkedIn, and discuss how to craft an enticing headline to attract your ideal client.
  • To apply 3 advanced search filters for greater results. 
  • To compose a connection strategy for ideal clients, and establish credibility using groups.
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Perfecting the pitch meeting

1 Hour

  • To list the 4 steps that make a great presentation.
  • To list 3 types of questions to use in each pitch meeting.
  • To identify the 3 parts of a successful presentation.
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Perfect Your Elevator Pitch

1 Hour

  • To define what makes you different and recognize why this is important.
  • To formulate your perfect elevator pitch.
  • To construct an engaging and memorable elevator pitch.
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

LinkedIn: Little Tips and Tricks

1 Hour

  • To discuss the features and functionalities of LinkedIn as a professional networking. 
  • To analyze the techniques to optimize your LinkedIn profile and build and nurture a meaningful and valuable network.
  • To discover how to engage with LinkedIn Groups and gain insights into creating and sharing engaging content.
Instructor
Edi Hayes
Edi Hayes

Founder & CEO , Her Career Cafe

Handling Tough Client Objections

1 Hour

  • To re-define what an objection means in a sales process
  • To apply 3 steps to deal with a misunderstanding
  • To establish the LAER method to deal with objections
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Delivering Exceptional Client Services

1 Hour

  • To relate the impact of client services and relate the client service execution to fundamentals. 
  • To list 5 fundamentals of client services, and relate to the current role. 
  • To list 6 ways to execute exceptional client service and execute exceptional client service.
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Building Firm Loyalty

1 Hour

  • To define the role loyalty plays in a growth strategy, and label 3-sections of the loyalty wheel. 
  • To list 4 ways to improve the investment in employees.
  • To list 4 ways to improve client services and firm culture.
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Building Exceptional Culture Through Leadership

1 Hour

  • To define organizational culture, describe the impact of leadership on culture, and list the 8 attributes of culture in an organization.
  • To recall the 3 fundamentals for creating culture.
  • To list 5 ways to gain buy-in for a culture change.
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Building a Prospect List

2 Hours

  • To define basic terms of sales & business development, and determine traits of your ideal client. 
  • To differentiate between upselling and new business.
  • To determine how many prospects you need based on your goal and identify 5 places to find prospects.
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Building & Managing a Pipeline

1 Hour

  • To establish the number of prospects for your prospect list
  • To construct your CRM to manage your sales pipeline
  • To define how to use metrics from your CRM
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Key Steps to Building an Advisory Practice

1 Hour

  • To explore and define advisory services
  • To list the 3 key building blocks of an advisory practice
  • To list the 3 key considerations for shifting to advisory services
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Negotiating Your Terms

1 Hour

  • To identify the 3 areas of negotiation.
  • To identify the 7 most common objections
  • To define your WAP
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Navigating the Closing Process

1 Hour

  • To define the 4 things to know about the decision-making process.
  • To list the 7 personas that you could deal with in a new business opportunity.
  • To discuss the best personas to help in your sales process and the worst personas to identify opportunities
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Lead Nurture Strategies

1 Hour

  • To compose a Front of Mind strategy.
  • To list the 6 establish credibility with your prospects.
  • To establish communication best practices.
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Landing a Prospect Meeting

1.5 Hours

  • To list the 6 areas of service differentiation
  • To list 5 ways to land meetings with your prospects.
  • To define warm and cold prospects and specific outreach strategies.
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Building a Circle of Influence

1 Hour

  • To define a circle of influence, recognize its importance, and who should be in your circle of influence. 
  • To explore getting targeted individuals, and describe processes to build relationships and trust within the circle of influence.
  • To discuss best practices on effectively utilizing a circle of influence.
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Marketing Strategies for Small Firm Success

1.5 Hours

  • To define value in small firms and individuals.
  • To evaluate your services with the needs of your ideal client.
  • To list 3 ways you can promote good client service
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

How to Price Profitably And Confidently...Without Scaring Off Even The Most Price Sensitive Clients

1 Hour

  • To analyze 5 steps to creating a menu pricing system that enables you to present choice and value to clients so that they’re in control and you’re profitable in your pricing.
  • To review why pricing more profitably isn’t about ripping clients off and how it enables you to make more of a difference to clients.
  • To discuss how this model enables you to easily upgrade clients to pay for more services from you.
Instructor
Shane Lukas
Shane Lukas

AVN - Inspiring Accountants

4 Most Common Accounting Firm Operation Gaps & How to Fix Them

1 Hour

  • To recognize the steps for streamlining the accounting firm’s operations and its benefits. 
  • To identify the ways of leveraging the Accounting Firm Operations and Technology.
  • To identify the ways of tracking your accounting operations. 
Instructor
Ty Sank
Ty Sank

Senior Account Executive , BigTime Software

Communication Skills for Leaders & Managers

4 Hours

  • To explain how to improve your communication with yourself and when interacting with others.
  • To explain what kind of leader/manager you are and how to better communicate based on your type.
  • To analyze how to motivate others (seeing the big picture, dealing with other people’s disappointment, empowering people, motivating people, and letting go of unmotivated people).
Instructor
Alain Wolf
Alain Wolf

Founder , Alain Wolf Coaching International Ltd

Maximize Your Minutes: Time Management Secrets for Professionals

1.5 Hours

  • To discuss how to become more productive, and destroy procrastination. 
  • To explore why context switching & multitasking is killing your productivity and how to remove distractions. 
  • To inspect how to boost email productivity and how to delegate so you can achieve more. 
Instructor
Alain Wolf
Alain Wolf

Founder , Alain Wolf Coaching International Ltd

Motivation Mastery for Professionals: Igniting Passion and Drive at Work

1.5 Hours

  • To discover activating 5 powerful emotions in the morning and discuss 5-steps to unleash your motivation to take any action at work. 
  • To discuss how to shift your emotional state from negative to positive and review how to boost motivation at the end of the day. 
  • To analyze 5 steps to create a success habit, examine how to recover from failure or defeat, and overcome all obstacles with motivation.
Instructor
Alain Wolf
Alain Wolf

Founder , Alain Wolf Coaching International Ltd

Overcoming Public Speaking Fear for Professionals

1.5 Hours

  • To identify the causes of the fear of public speaking, how to master your mindset and your perceptions. 
  • To discover the 6 tips to decrease your fear of public speaking, communicate with confidence. 
  • To discover the nonverbal cues to avoid, and reduce future stress by using techniques. 
Instructor
Alain Wolf
Alain Wolf

Founder , Alain Wolf Coaching International Ltd

Social Confidence: Kill Your Social Fears & Achieve Success

2.5 Hours

  • To conquer your fear of approaching people, reduce the fear of what people think of you, and destroy your fear of rejection.
  • To analyze your fear of social success, remove your fear of hanging out with new people, and dealing with your social fear.
  • To reduce your fear of talking to important people, remove your fear of being authentic, and dealing with social failure.
Instructor
Alain Wolf
Alain Wolf

Founder , Alain Wolf Coaching International Ltd

Stress Management For Professionals: 30+ Techniques To Reduce Stress

1.5 Hours

  • To know how to use FOCUS & MEANING strategies and LANGUAGE strategies to reduce stress at work.
  • To discuss how to use PHYSIOLOGY strategies to reduce stress at work. 
  • To analyze how to reduce long-term stress 
Instructor
Alain Wolf
Alain Wolf

Founder , Alain Wolf Coaching International Ltd

Introduction to Business Development

1 Hour

  • To define the 5 stages in the sales process and 5 ways to find your ideal client.
  • To design your perfect elevator pitch and design a tailored elevator pitch.
  • To list the 7 most common objections.
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

Why accounting firms need a CRM

1 Hour

  • To define a CRM system, describe the history of CRMs.
  • To list 3 reasons why an accounting firm should use a CRM, and 5 ways to use a CRM in an accounting firm.
  • To define 5 considerations when choosing a CRM.
Instructor
Ty Hendrickson
Ty Hendrickson

Consultant , Inovautus Consulting

4 Steps to Measure if Your Communication Strategy is Moving Your CPA Firm Forward

1 Hour

  • To know and apply the best concepts to be more compelling and interactive with your team and clients
  • To identify and apply the best way to measure if your team and clients received and when they accessed your information.
  • To explain and apply how this information resonates with your team and clients and whether it was clearly understood by them.
Instructor
Christopher Salem
Christopher Salem

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) , CRS Group Holdings, LLC

How to Take Your Firm Nationwide: The Journey from Thriving in a Local Market to Becoming the Next National Firm

1 Hour

  • To explain the motivation for expansion, and analyze what you should consider before committing to the journey. 
  • To discuss how to prepare for your expansion and know how to plan it. 
  • To discover how to hit important milestones. 
Instructor
Sia Kal
Sia Kal

Managing Partner , FY USA LLC

How to Double, Even Triple Productivity Across Your Entire Firm

1 Hour

  • To discuss why most people only run at a fraction of their peak productivity levels.
  • To explain the 3 main factors that cause reduced productivity – it’s not your fault.
  • To identify specific mechanisms that will enable higher productivity across the practice.
Instructor
Shane Lukas
Shane Lukas

AVN - Inspiring Accountants

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The Certification Course in Business Development for Accounting Firms covers integral connections between various factors and the business development. It takes into account effective communication, networking strategies, client services, impactful leadership, and more to provide a holistic approach to business development for accounting businesses. The course also provides due attention to address personal and professional development, discipline, legal, and business management aspects to create a resilient business environment.

The Certification Course in Business Development for Accounting Firms ensures that businesses provide due attention to the opportunities and challenges of business development. It avails various strategies, tips, and tools to boost organizational effectiveness, productivity, cultural changes, and more. The course offers an opportunity to better understand and manage a workplace that can result in numerous advantages.  

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