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"I want to start my own accountancy practice, but I am very clueless about how to start and where to find clients. I made this decision because I was fed up with juggling my work and personal life. My employer had made our lives hell.

Can anyone help me with this? How do I start the business, and where can I search for clients?"

Would you also like advice on starting your practice and finding clients?

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If you don’t know, you aren’t ready yet. Start doing NBD at your current firm to build the connections you need.

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I should specify. The years shouldn't be the determining factor. The experience you have should. For example you could do the exact same thing every year for 6 years. Then what you really have is one year of experience. Which I'm assuming is unlikely in your case. 6 years is plenty of time to get the experience you need if you are exposed to the right work.

The only way I know how clients are obtained is word of mouth. Word of mouth from existing clients (not applicable here) and colleagues who can’t take on additional work.

I would start getting my business licenses going and post on LinkedIn as an indirect way to spread the word with my past co-workers.

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You can see if there’s a listing to buy out an existing small business

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Where are you located maybe do it together?

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I’m in NY. Feel free to DM.

What up tax senior…. We missed you.

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Start small and just get going. Make sure you have your license and whatever you need from the state to have a business. I did tax prep this year and getting clients was difficult. You can focus locally and look into running ads on social media. It’s truly a huge rabbit hole of information.

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Starting your own practice is not going to make juggling your work and personal life easier. Maybe you need to work elsewhere?

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If you create an accounting account in QuickBooks, it can put you in with a list of other accountants and people can go through and pay you for accounting help.

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AI might be able to help ;)

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