McMahon to Speak at National Conference on Firm Governance

IGA Marketing • May 4, 2019

Daniel J. McMahon, founder and managing partner of Integrated Growth Advisors (IGA), will present “The Five Fortunes of CPA Governance” at the Allinial Global 2019 Executive Team Conference in Napa, CA, on May 21.

Prior to founding IGA, McMahon served as an Audit Partner and the Partner-in-Charge of Sales and Marketing for a $30 million revenue regional public accounting firm, where he also specialized in governance and controls.

While IGA serves clients in a variety of industries, McMahon’s firm specializes in governance, sustainability, generational transferability, and building increased equity valuation. IGA also provides mergers and acquisitions advisory services to business owners, including the leaders of CPA firms.

Allinial Global is a member-based association of independent accounting and consulting firms. Founded in 1969, it has 191 members with locations throughout the world generating approximately $3 billion in collective revenues.

IGA is a growth advisory firm focused on empowering business leaders to systematically enhance their revenues, profitability, sustainability, and value. IGA’s unique processes and methodology focuses on creating sustainability and transferability for our clients’ businesses by addressing common issues relating to growth, control, and transition of ownership. The IGA process also serves to maximize company valuations thereby enhancing the wealth of our business owner clients.

IGA serves clients throughout the United States from locations in Connecticut, Chicago, and San Francisco. Visit us online at www.integratedgrowthadvisors.com.

Strong Governance can drive success for your business. To learn more, or to book Dan McMahon to speak to your group on Firm Governance or Corporate Governance, contact us.

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CPA Lessons From the Gridiron: Staying in Alignment When the Game is on the Line

By Dan McMahon, CPA, CM&AA • December 16, 2024

With the college football playoffs set and the NFL season coming down the home stretch, there have been countless close games going down to the final seconds. The difference between winning and losing often has more to do with a team’s culture and preparation than it does with their pure talent. In the same way, most accounting firms have smart, conscientious, talented people at all levels of the organization. The difference between high performing firms and mediocre firms is that the high performers have the ability to stay in alignment and hold their composure when the pressure is on. While it’s easy to put your organization’s core values on the wall of your lobby or locker room, you don’t find out who has really bought into those values until the you-know-what hits the fan. Like elite sports teams and military units, high-performing firms stay together and stick to the game plan when faced with a big client loss, departure of a key employee, or busy season fire drills. Under the same circumstances, lesser firms throw in the towel, point fingers, and watch staff head for the exits. Sound familiar? Sun Tsu, the legendary general and philosopher of ancient times said, “Every battle is won before it’s ever fought.” In the heat of battle, I’ve found, you must think like a triage unit in combat. Casualties are all around you and coming in fast; you must treat the most serious life-threatening injuries before the ones that are merely painful – no matter how anguished the victim. In the heat of battle, you’re not going to get perfection. You must do the best you can with the people, resources and time you have to work with. As a leadership coach, I’ve noticed that firms with a strong culture and governance model are particularly well equipped to handle “battlefield” conditions. They tend to have four characteristics in common:

EVENT: How to build a sustainable and transferable firm for the next generation

By Daniel McMahon • November 29, 2024

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Dan McMahon contributed to the following article in Illinois CPA Society's Insight Magazine summer issue on the topic CPA firm M&A.

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Check out Dan McMahon who recently appeared as a guest on Doug Noll’s Listening with Leaders podcast. Dan and Doug discuss the importance of listening as a leader, the art of improvisational theater performing, and why management teams must follow a parliamentary procedure for decision making.