Providing Cost-Effective Industry Reports to Accounting Professionals

As an accounting professional, your business is extremely labor intensive. Large companies continually look to you for reassurance that you are in fact the best accounting firm for them with the best accounting solutions. Small business owners often rely on you for all kinds of business advice. Let First Research Industry Intelligence lighten your workload.

Whether you focus on tax preparation, bookkeeping and accounting, financial auditing, tax consulting or offer an array of services to your clients; they expect you to be an expert in your field. Moreover, they want to know that you understand their business as well. You may have tools you need to manage accounting tasks, but what are you using to develop prospects and stay up-to-date on your clients' business issues? First Research industry reports give you easy, affordable access to the deep industry knowledge and industry insight you need to communicate a clear understanding of the opportunities and challenges your prospects and clients face within their specific industry on a daily basis.

First Research Industry Intelligence Tools help large established firms, mid-size accounting firms and individual consulting practices save time, deepen client relationships and set themselves apart from the competition.

Easy-to-use Industry Profiles cut research time and deliver industry insight on targeted, niche markets. Each Industry Profile is updated quarterly and contains the following chapters for use in lengthy business valuations: Business Challenges, Industry Overview, Business Trends and Industry Opportunities, Website and Media Links, Financial Information and more. You can also access Archived Industry Profiles for “as of date” valuations. Industry/Association links within Industry Profiles let you take your research to an even more detailed level.

Pull and file an Industry Profile in a client file to document annual industry benchmarking. Maintain objectivity and independence on Audit Engagements by using First Research as an external source of objective industry information. First Research Industry Profiles also make it easy to target revenue opportunities in new vertical markets such as support, forensic accounting and fraud investigation in new verticals.

Choose from nearly 200 Industry Profiles to understand your prospects' or clients' critical business issues in:

• Construction & Real Estate
• Finance & Insurance
• Food & Agriculture Services
• Technology & Communication
• Wholesale
• Public Services, Education & Recreation
• Retail
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• Transportation, Energy & Storage

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Call Prep Sheets streamline the call preparation process and keep you from starting from scratch. In just a few minutes, you're up-to-speed on the critical industry trends and business challenges your clients and prospects are already facing, so you're more prepared for partner and client calls, initial interviews and annual "check ups." Call preparation questions help you ask the right questions to gain lucrative consulting and value-added work by targeting business development efforts by industry. You’ll not only sound like you know more as you develop prospects and prepare for client meetings, you will know more.

Email Alerts keep you abreast of the constant changes in the industries you select. Use the info to update your website or print out the latest Email Alert and share insider analysis during your next client meeting. You'll communicate your industry expertise, and become a trusted advisor, without adding more hours to your work day.

Quarterly State Profiles increase your advisory status by providing state-specific economic pictures. Use them to tailor your accounting services to meet a client's regional-based accounting needs.

With First Research, you are better prepared and positioned to market your individual mix of accounting services to prospects and clients.

Learn more about how accounting professionals are currently using cost-effective First Research Industry Intelligence tools to cut research time, streamline the call preparation process, and demonstrate their industry expertise.

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