Rewind : Applying Lessons from Military Service In Business w/ Richard Crawshay
Building the Premier Accounting Firm
Release Date: 12/27/2025
Rewind : Applying Lessons from Military Service In Business w/ Richard Crawshay
Building the Premier Accounting Firm
Join us as we revisit this conversation from 2021! After years of service in the military and life experiences Richard shares what he has learned and how it applies in business. This is a great conversation and adaptation that we all need to hear. Listen as Roger discusses with Richard the two things that he feels he learned from his military service that he applies daily in his life personally and professionally. He is spot on! They also share their thoughts related to helping and serving others. How it is fulfilling and why we should each find opportunities to give back....
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Get Paid What You’re Worth with CFO Services w/ Ken LaCroix
Building the Premier Accounting Firm
On this episode of Building the Premier Accounting Firm, host Roger Knecht and his guest, Ken Lacroix, discuss the evolving role of accounting professionals in providing CFO and advisory services. They explore the shift from compliance to forward-thinking financial planning, leveraging technology, and the importance of storytelling in communicating financial insights to business owners. This episode offers key strategies for firms looking to add more value beyond traditional accounting. In This Episode: 00:00 Introduction to Ken Lacroix 02:00 The Anti-Accountant & Storytelling 05:17...
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This Week on BPAF : Ken LaCroix
Building the Premier Accounting Firm
Join us this Wednesday for a new episode where Roger discusses implementing adisory services in your accounting practice with Ken LaCroix.
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Rewind : What Story Are You Telling? w/ Aleya Harris
Building the Premier Accounting Firm
Join us as we revisit this conversation from 2021! Why is it we each enjoy a great story? From plays, to shows and movies we are drawn to stories we relate to, in fact, we are especially drawn to those we can see ourselves relating to the heroes. So how does this apply to marketing accounting services? Listen as Aleya and Roger discuss a proven framework that you can apply story telling principles to the narrative we tell in our marketing to help clients relate better to what we do and how in time it can benefit them. It’s time to grow the business, help the clients we have and empower...
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3 Ways To Attract High-Value Accounting Clients w/ Marie Torossian
Building the Premier Accounting Firm
Roger Knecht is joined by Marie Torossian, founder of The Profit Lab, to discuss strategies for accounting professionals to grow successful businesses on the latest episode of Building the Premier Accounting Firm. They cover topics from differentiating services like CFO advisory and coaching to attracting high-value clients with strong growth mindsets, emphasizing the importance of clear communication and accountability. In This Episode: 00:00 Introduction and Torossian’s Background 02:08 Path to Entrepreneurship 05:30 Profit Lab’s Genesis and Separation 09:14 Coaching, Advisory, and...
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This Week on BPAF : Marie Torossian
Building the Premier Accounting Firm
Join us this Wednesday for a new episode where Roger discusses taking action with Marie Torossian.
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Rewind : Yep, from Bartender to Tax & Accounting Specialist w/ Alyssa Lang
Building the Premier Accounting Firm
Join us as we revisit this conversation from 2021! Listen as Alyssa shares her story along with the lessons learned to build a successful accounting business. Alyssa and Roger discuss the unforeseen challenges and the corresponding solutions to address each. From workflow, systems to client relations and everything in between. Consider this, finding someone to be front facing and interacting with clients in a way that meets our expectations and standards can be a hard, but they do exist. We can build a business that thrives without us working within it doing the day-to-day tasks....
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The Secret to Explaining Your Accounting Pricing w/ Laura Shepherd
Building the Premier Accounting Firm
On this edition of Building the Premier Accounting Firm, Roger Knecht and Laura Shepherd, founder of Momentum BK, discuss pricing strategies for accounting firms, focusing on Shepherd’s “Pricing with Purpose” philosophy. Learn how to categorize services, build confidence, and avoid common pricing pitfalls to grow your accounting business. In This Episode: 00:00 Introduction to Pricing with Purpose 03:49 Categorizing Accounting Services for Pricing 08:42 Deep Dive into Service Categories 14:43 Mindset Shift for Accounting Professionals 19:05 Real-World Pricing Success Stories 24:38...
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This Week on BPAF : Laura Shepherd
Building the Premier Accounting Firm
Join us this Wednesday for a new episode where Roger discusses pricing with purpose with Laura Shepherd.
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Rewind : Helping Business Owners Go From A Job To A Lifestyle w/ Ken Mann
Building the Premier Accounting Firm
Join us as we revisit this conversation from 2021! There are 3 key elements when explaining accounting services so that business owners can understand the value of the work we do, and Ken helps us understand why we need to emphasize each of them in our marketing. As Ken and Roger speak, we are also reminded that this is a personal business. Even more important than the accounting skills we use to take care of our clients it’s the relationships we build that are equally important. Consider this, Ken shares an interesting perspective, think of tax like this: “Taxes I like the report...
info_outlineJoin us as we revisit this conversation from 2021!
After years of service in the military and life experiences Richard shares what he has learned and how it applies in business. This is a great conversation and adaptation that we all need to hear.
Listen as Roger discusses with Richard the two things that he feels he learned from his military service that he applies daily in his life personally and professionally. He is spot on!
They also share their thoughts related to helping and serving others. How it is fulfilling and why we should each find opportunities to give back.
Lastly, you need to hear about the Universal CFO Simulator and how it can help business leaders, accounting professionals learn how to apply strategic business principles in practice and then in real life.
You are going to love it.
Your Host: Roger Knecht, president of Universal Accounting Center
Guest Name: Richard Crawshay
Richard is a Senior Business Executive with 40+ years of experience in general management, operational management, business transformation, program management, outsourcing & organizational leadership. He has been a British Army Officer, a management consultant, an IT executive, and a High School science teacher and is currently the Chief Commercial Officer for PBS. He has worked on 3 continents, operated at account, country, sub-regional, regional & global levels in both the private and public sectors. He has demonstrated significant success in turnaround situations and transformation initiatives with an emphasis on effectives and efficiency. Colleagues would characterize him as an inspirational leader, ambitious but loyal with a laser focus on results and adept at creating the conditions for their individual and collective success. He has honed his skill in being able to rapidly structure problems, design solutions & then implement them. He lives in SW Ontario in Canada with his second wife Maria and has 3 adult children from his previous marriage. He is a keen daily runner who enjoys snow skiing and reading.
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