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Building a Prospect List for Accountants

In this course, you will learn how to build a prospect list to efficiently develop new business with your ideal client.

Created byTyra Hendrickson, CPA
IntermediateUpdated Oct 29, 2021
Building a Prospect List for Accountants

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleDefine basic terms of sales and business development
  • check_circleDefine traits of your ideal client
  • check_circleDifferentiate between upselling and new business
  • check_circleDetermine how many prospects you need based on your goal

About This Course

Business Development is crucial to the health of CPA firms and an important factor in the track to partnership for individuals. The first step in the process to gaining new business is understanding prospecting. This course covers prospecting from start to finish. Before you can look for new prospects, it is important to start from the beginning and determine who is your ideal client. Once this has been determined, we review where to find these ideal clients and the importance of building a prospect list.

Field of Study: Business Management & Organization

Course Content

4 activities • 8 videos • duration: 1h 6m

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Understanding Your Ideal Client & Setting Goals-Part14 videos • 38 min
  • videocamVideo 1 - Introduction & Objectives
    Duration 9:26
  • videocamVideo 2 - Ideal Client
    Duration 8:37
  • videocamVideo 3 - Types of Prospects
    Duration 8:56
  • videocamVideo 4 - Calculating Goals
    Duration 11:55
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Finding Prospects & Building Your List-Part14 videos • 27 min
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Review Questions-Part11 quiz
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Final Exam-Part11 quiz

Your Instructor

Tyra Hendrickson, CPA

CPA and Sales Evangelist

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Ty is a CPA with almost 20 years of experience in both public accounting and sales. Ty worked as an accountant at firms ranging from small to large prior to moving into the accounting technology sector successfully building sales training programs for both Wolters Kluwer and Bloomberg BNA. Working in different areas of the accounting industry, Ty recognized that sales and business development skills are a necessary part of the job of a CPA, but also the most underserved in terms of skill development and training. Ty’s passion is to provide the tools necessary for accountants to not only be successful, but also enjoy business development. Ty has a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy from Transylvania University in Lexington, KY.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.6 out of 5
Student's Choice
10 reviews
  • HG
    Harish G.
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    Definitely.

  • GH
    gerry h.
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    some of the questions on the tests were a tad ambiguous, but overall a great up to date course to manage and deal with client acquisition in the new technological era

  • BB
    Brian B.
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    VERY THROUGH - ESPECIALLY FROM SOMEONE SMALL LOOKING TO GROW. YOU COULD PERHAPS TALK ABOUT BUYING A BOOK TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS

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