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FIRM PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
How to go easier

on staff during

busy season

Many firms across the country have begun to abolish
requirements for high-hour workweeks during busy

season. Here’s how they are doing it.
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By Andrew Kenney

hen he started working for a large Over time, though, he chose to try something
accounting firm, Josh Lance, CPA, radically new.
WCGMA, knew that he might have to Seven years ago, Lance founded his own firm
make personal sacrifices. in Chicago. And he decided it wouldn’t have a
At first, Lance recalled telling himself: “You’re busy season.
an accountant, and you’re a CPA. You have a busy “People generally didn’t think it was possible,”
season, and you work crazy hours during that he said. “I made it part of our mission to have that
time. You do the work, and you want to be a team kind of flexibility for our work and have the ability
player.” to work normal hours throughout the year.”

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