Roger Knecht
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Practical growth talk for accounting firm owners.
Building the Premier Accounting Firm is a steady interview show for accountants, bookkeepers, and tax professionals building their own practices. Roger Kinect brings guests into practical conversations about getting paid properly, asking better client questions, selling services, and running a firm with confidence.
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Building the Premier Accounting Firm sits at the intersection of accounting practice, small-business ownership, and professional confidence. It is not a technical tax update show. Its center of gravity is the firm owner who can already do the work, but wants a better way to price it, explain it, sell it, and sustain it. Roger Kinect leads interview-style conversations with guests who bring experience from consulting, coaching, ethics, marketing, sales intelligence, and accounting firm ownership. The pace is steady. The questions usually set up a concrete business problem before handing the guest room to explain how they think about it. Pricing comes up often, especially the tension between hourly billing and value-based or fixed-fee work. Jonathan Stark’s appearance gives that theme a sharp frame, with attention to projects that have a clear goal, a current state, and a measurable future result. Sales is treated as a professional skill rather than a personality trick. Debra Angilletta’s conversation turns confidence, competence, and better client questions into a practical sales posture for accountants who want to be seen as advisors. Marketing gets separated from selling in Chris Forsey’s episode, where lead generation, prospecting, positioning, and nurturing each get their own place in the client journey. Ethics receives a serious treatment as well. Arun Kumar’s discussion uses moral discomfort and slippery-slope thinking to show how small rationalizations can grow into professional danger. The show also spends time on mindset. Robyn Mons brings coaching language around self-belief, scarcity thinking, and the danger of accepting a client’s limiting story as fact. Jeff Dredge’s episode adds a career and lifestyle lens, using accounting firm ownership as a path that can shape both work and life. Bobby Martin’s appearance points accountants toward industry intelligence and stronger preparation before client meetings. Across the excerpts, the show keeps returning to one basic idea: a successful accounting firm needs more than accurate work. It needs pricing discipline, client curiosity, ethical clarity, repeatable marketing, and the confidence to lead conversations with business owners.
Made for: Accounting, bookkeeping, and tax professionals who own or want to build a client-service firm. It especially suits practitioners working on pricing, sales confidence, advisory conversations, and client retention.
What sets it apart: The show stays close to the business mechanics of accounting firms rather than offering generic entrepreneurship advice. Its interviews translate pricing, ethics, marketing, coaching, and sales concepts into situations accountants actually face with clients.
A show dedicated to helping accounting professionals confidently and competently offer quality accounting services to get paid what they are worth. Each episode is conversational with tips and tricks to help you apply the principles of M.A.P. as they relate to starting and building a successful accounting business. Topics include Marketing, Lead Generation, Ideal Clients, Pricing, Price Strategies, Accounting Services, Value Added Services, Workflow, Practice Management, Staff Training, Client On-boarding, Client Relations & Retention, etc. This podcast will help you become an Accountrepreneur, to work ON your business with advice from the experts.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes the commercial side of accounting legible through detailed conversations about pricing, advisory work, client boundaries, staffing, sales, and ethics.
Building the Premier Accounting Firm keeps its attention on the decisions that turn accounting knowledge into a functioning practice. Roger Kinect leads guest conversations about selling services, setting prices, adding advisory work, managing staff, choosing a niche, and…
This is the show that asks whether your tidy books are building a firm or feeding a grind.
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A steady argument for pricing the result, not the clock.
Jonathan Stark makes a plain case for moving past hourly billing and charging for the result instead of the clock. He draws a clean line between project work, with a defined end point, and recurring work, where a fixed fee makes more sense than arguing over hours.
A practical sales conversation for accountants that favors better questions over surface-level pitches.
The episode treats sales for accountants as a consultative skill rather than a hard pitch. Roger Connect and Debra Agiletta keep coming back to confidence, competence, and listening for what a business owner actually needs.
Ethics is treated here as a business habit, not a moral lecture.
Ethics comes through here as a practical business problem, not a slogan. The guest argues that operating ethically can produce return on investment for both individuals and the business, which fits a show aimed at bookkeepers, accountants, and tax preparers trying to build a…
Confidence, scarcity, and pricing are linked to how an accounting firm grows.
Roger Kinect frames the conversation around a plain but sturdy idea: confidence matters in the growth of an accounting, bookkeeping, or tax business.
A grounded look at niching, structure, and a more scalable accounting workflow.
Tyler Otto and Roger Connecton walk through how Specialty Bookkeeping grew from a side hustle into a full service accounting and tax practice built around hospitality clients.
A clear pricing reset for firm owners dealing with unpaid urgency and blurry boundaries.
Roger Konek and Michelle Weinstein spend the episode on a familiar but useful problem for accounting, bookkeeping, and tax firm owners: getting paid fairly without turning every client request into an emergency.
A clear take on simple billing and long term client relationships.
The episode keeps its focus on simple accounting and CFO style billing, and it makes a solid case for not turning pricing into a puzzle. Rusty Fuling argues for straightforward terms, one year commitments, and a way of working that can grow into 25 year client relationships…
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Hourly billing gets put on trial.
Jonathan Stark discusses the mindset around pricing in accounting firms in an episode of Building the Premier Accounting Firm.
Selling starts with better questions.
Ethics starts small.
Roger Kinect, President of Universal Accounting Center, speaks with Robin Mons of Robin Mons Coaching about confidence, imposter syndrome, and the emotional side of running a business.
This episode features an interview with CPA Jeff Dredge, who shares his journey into accounting and insights on building a successful accounting business while achieving balance.
Host Roger Knecht interviews Chris Forsey about the difference between marketing and sales for accounting professionals.
This episode features an interview with Bobby Martin, co-founder and CEO of Vertical IQ, discussing how accounting professionals can improve client relations and business growth using industry intelligence and sales strategies.
Host Roger Kinect interviews Nathan Whitaker, CEO of Stimulus Technologies, about technology solutions for accounting firms.
Host Roger Kinect interviews CPA Shannon Vincent about strategies to increase profitability and reduce client numbers in accounting firms.
This episode features an interview with sales expert Nikki Rausch discussing how to transform leads into paying customers, with a focus on the distinction between marketing and sales for accounting professionals and small business owners.
Nikki Rausch discusses sales conversations, pricing, and building authority for accounting professionals.
Host Roger Connect interviews Tiffany Higgins, a CPA and former bookkeeping business owner, about building a virtual bookkeeping business and achieving lifestyle freedom.
Host Roger Kinect interviews Josh Davis about scaling and exiting a business, with insights for accounting professionals.
Josh Davis shares his journey of starting an accounting business and exiting to private equity within three years.
Host Roger Kinect interviews bookkeeper April Fingero about her journey starting a bookkeeping business focused on trade clients.
Host Roger Kinect interviews CPA Michael Wadali about his background and strategies for building a successful accounting firm and saving clients millions in taxes.
A conversational podcast offering tips and strategies for accounting professionals to build and grow a successful accounting firm.
Host Roger Kinect interviews Mary Delaney, CEO of Carbon, about AI-powered accounting practice management software.
Host Roger Connect interviews Stacey Brown-Randall about generating business referrals without asking, tailored for accounting professionals.
Host Roger Kinect interviews Deneen Diaz about leveraging technology and AI to build scalable client advisory services (CAS) for accounting firms.
Host Roger Connect interviews Troken Pope about starting and growing a successful accounting firm, covering marketing, pricing, and client relations.
Host Roger Kinect interviews entrepreneur David Wax about his company Handwritten, which provides robotic handwritten notes, and discusses the importance of client relationships in accounting.
Tyler Otto's segment is about the structure behind a scalable accounting firm.
Host Roger Kinect interviews Matt Buttre, founder of 8X, about his journey from CFO to starting a financial operations company for e-commerce brands.
Host Roger Kinect interviews Tyler Small about building better business relationships for accounting professionals.
Undercharging is treated here as a boundary problem, not a math problem.
Host Roger Kinect interviews CPA Adam Farnsworth about his R&D tax credit consulting business and shares tips for building a successful accounting firm.
Host Roger Kinnett interviews fractional CFO Shadi Aboud about his journey in accounting and insights for building a premier accounting firm.
This episode features a tax attorney discussing how to resolve tax issues for small businesses and individuals.
This episode features an interview with Brad Farris about helping accounting firm owners shift from hustle to leadership to grow their businesses from $1-2M to $3-5M.
This episode features an interview with Shannon Beck, president of Professional Accounting Solutions, discussing how accounting professionals can expand beyond basic bookkeeping to enhance client services and grow their businesses.
Rusty Fulling keeps pricing simple.
This episode features an interview with Lindsay Kline, president of a bookkeeping business and founder of networking groups, discussing her background in accounting and insights for building successful firms.
This episode features an interview with Leroy Beeby, co-founder of Level error detection software for QuickBooks Online, discussing his accounting background and how his tool helps improve bookkeeping accuracy.