Why Aren’t You Outsourcing?

Source: Management Catalyst

Only five percent of the 281 firms in the 2006 Rosenberg MAP Survey planned any significant outsourcing of 1040s in 2007.

Reasons include:

• Clients won’t like it.
• Low quality.
• Confidentiality/security.
• Insufficient cost savings.
• Patriotism.

Survey respondents who are active outsourcers did not see any of these reasons as valid.

Here are some persuasive reasons to outsource:

• Alleviate the tax season burden on staff and allow them to achieve the all important “work/life balance.”
• Alleviate the staff shortage.
• National firms do it, so why shouldn’t smaller firms?

Outsourcing, says Rosenberg, will become standard practice in CPA firms in time.

From Management Catalyst, a publication of The Rosenberg Associates, Ltd., Wilmette, Illinois (www.rosenbergassoc.com), spring 2007, p. 2. For the complete article, click here.