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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

8 Rules for Effective Technology Management

The ongoing war for talent, coupled with the rapid advancement of technology, is fueling exponential growth in the importance of technology. It creates a challenge and an opportunity. From the challenge side, we are already being forced to do more ...

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Firm Management

Is Your Technology Planning Process in Alignment?

The fact that technology is part of everything we do to run our firms and serve clients is why your Chief Information Officer (CIO) or technology leader should have a seat at the management table. To truly align the technology plan, the leader ...

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Advisory

Change Management in Accounting Firms

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Firm Management

How Security Savvy Is Your Firm?

Security continues to be a top priority for firms today. Clients trust CPAs with some of their most sensitive data and it’s our responsibility to do everything possible to protect it. While most wish there was a magic bullet that would guarantee 100% ...

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Firm Management

Does Your Firm Have Technical Debt?

Technical debt is now a common term in the software development industry. Companies spend money assessing, controlling and “paying down” their technical debt in order to keep their products agile enough to compete in an environment where slow to market or

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Accounting

Scammers Move From Phish to Whales

Whaling is a form of phishing attack where senior executives and others with access to valuable and sensitive data are sent very personal and well researched emails. The attacker may send the target an email that appears to be from someone they ...

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Firm Management

Is It Easy To Do Business With Your Firm?

If your firm is like most, you are constantly looking for ways to fuel growth. The fastest and easiest way to grow is by leveraging your existing client base. And to do so you need to make sure that your base is full of happy clients.

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Firm Management

Collaboration + Leadership = Success

The greatest leaders surround themselves with tremendous talent on their leadership team. They understand their own unique abilities and the areas where they fall short. They look for individuals who can complement their strengths and minimize their ...

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Firm Management

The People You Meet & The Books You Read

If you look around our profession at the most successful individuals, they all have two things in common: they are well connected and are lifelong readers. The late author and speaker, Charlie “Tremendous” Jones, used to always say ...

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Firm Management

The Next Generation Accounting Firm Office

Accounting firms aren’t always quick to adopt change but we can all be assured that changes will continue to come in our profession. One area in which we are seeing considerable change over the last few years is in the utilization of office space.

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Accounting

It's Time To Smarten Up Your Conference Room

Although projector and screen setups are still quite prevalent in conference rooms across the country, we are seeing an increasing number of flat panel displays taking the place of this arrangement. Even though HD projectors are increasing in ...

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Firm Management

A Simple Approach to Training

While you certainly have to take into account learning styles, I would like to share a simple training approach that I learned from my partner, Dustin Hostetler. It is a proven process that has been used successfully by our clients and in a variety of ...