So You Want to Buy an Accounting Firm? Prepare to Get Shit on By Tax Twitter

Posted on by Going Concern News Desk
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This gent, one Chris Kimbell, decided a good way to get a lead on an accounting firm to buy would be to turn to the artist formerly known as Twitter and put his feelers out. Simple enough query, right?

You’ll note Chris is not a CPA nor is he formerly (or informally) trained in the art of accounting. This comes up quite a lot in the responses.

Bonus points to this person who did the math on an accounting firm for sale.

There are currently 3,460 other practices listed for sale on accountingpracticesales.com, surely he can find one or two worth entertaining there.

We’ll be sure to check back in on him in a year.

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It seems, however, that he’s merely pimping out the World Economic Forum and is really, really excited about it. So excited, in fact, that it’s been all he’s tweeted about in the less than two weeks he’s been sharing with us in 140 characters or less.


What he isn’t tweeting is how much his trip to Davos to hob-nob with the global elite might cost him. We of the working class, ticking and tying set might feel he could just as easily put his finger on the pulse of the economy by sitting down with any number of Deloitte’s 170,000 employees since, last we checked, the economy was people, not rich guys (and gals, it’s the 21st Century) hanging out in Switzerland.

We won’t say we’re disappointed because our standards are really low to begin with but he could have, you know, toned it down a notch.

Just how much does a trip to Davos cost a snazzy Big 4 CEO? Ask Andrew Ross Sorkin: A basic level Davos excursion will run you $71,000 for membership to the organization and ticket alone (that doesn’t include hotels, helicopters or red carpets strewn ahead of you). The “Industry Associate” level, which would get JQ behind the velvet rope to hang with other hot accounting and finance rockstars, runs $156,000. And if, say, Quigs wants to bring a buddy the “Industry Partner” level could run him around $301,000.

Well wait, it’s not fair to say he’s only tweeting about WEF, he did also throw some tweets about chicks in there. You know, for diversity’s sake.

Hey, it beats over-hashtagging I guess.

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