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Jim Boomer

CPA, CITP, CEO

jim.boomer@boomer.com

Phone: 785-537-2358 x114

Jim Boomer is the CEO of Boomer Consulting, Inc. He is the director of the Boomer Technology Circles ™ and an expert on managing technology within an accounting firm. He also serves as a strategic planning and technology consultant and firm adviser in the areas of performance and risk management. In addition, Jim is leading a new program, The Producer Circle, in collaboration with CPA2BIZ and the AICPA. Jim was selected for the 2011 AICPA Leadership Program and the inaugural class of the KSCPA’s "20 Under 40” Leadership Program. He has been named to The CPA Technology Advisor’s "Forty Under Forty” and "Top 25 Thought Leaders” lists multiple times.

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Firm Management

6 Steps for Adopting a Growth Mindset

Most of the time, the difference between success and failure of a project comes down to mindset. In the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, author Carol S. Dweck explains how mindset impacts growth and change.

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Firm Management

6 Steps for Adopting a Growth Mindset

Our mindset shapes whether we can learn and change and grow. The good news is that anyone can adopt a growth mindset, think differently and become more open to innovation and growth.

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Firm Management

Does Your Firm Need a Technology Steering Committee?

In an accounting firm, technology is embedded in everything we do. Yet too often, we see firms hand off responsibility for all technology projects to their IT teams. Firms that successfully leverage technology as a strategic asset recognize that ...

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Advisory

3 Small Steps Toward Transformation

The CPA profession is undergoing a significant disruption which will change the way partners and staff work and the services firms provide. It’s an exciting time for all of us, yet even as firm leaders want to take the next steps in their firms’ ...

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Firm Management

Creating a Structure for Innovation

As the profession continues to move forward with business transformation, firms are being tasked with becoming more innovative. Innovation may come naturally to some, but many firms we speak to don’t know where to start.

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Firm Management

Addressing the Fear of Automation

The tasks being automated aren’t what clients value. Does anyone truly believe that clients appreciate that your staff manually enters every number into a tax return or trial balance? Of course not.

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Firm Management

Does Your Technology Meet Client Expectations?

We’re living in an era where every part of our daily lives is impacted by technology in one way or another. We have numerous new methods of electronic communication and seemly endless options for home entertainment and improved technology that ...

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Advisory

Leveraging the Four Cs to Automation and Advisory

When we ask practitioners why they continue to focus their efforts on transactional and compliance services, we find that most feel they don’t feel comfortable providing performance- and strategic-based advisory services because their experience and ...

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Artificial Intelligence

Automation is Here. How Are You Leveraging It?

CPA firms are in the midst of a transition. For years, research firms and thought leaders have been predicting the disruption of the profession through automation. That disruption isn’t a vision for the future – it’s here now. In 2017, Gartner ...

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Advisory

Focus on the Digital Client Experience and the Revenue Will Follow

A combination of technology and process can provide powerful tools for your team and clients, but the overall mindset within your firm is also critical. Leaders must prioritize making clients’ lives easier and focus on continuous improvement.

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Firm Management

Creating Structure Around Innovation

The innovation process within firms is often chaotic and uncoordinated if it exists at all. While it’s true that innovation is messy, leaders cannot expect to merely tell people the goal is to be innovative and expect amazing things.

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Firm Management

Work Is About Results, Not Location

The first thing many people do when they wake up is reach for their smartphone. In fact, your smartphone probably is your alarm clock. But we also use it to send and receive email, check our calendar and so much more. Before we officially sit down ...