Tax season has a way of revealing what’s really holding your accounting firm together.

Even when revenue is strong and clients are engaged, many accounting firm owners, tax preparers, and bookkeepers feel an unexpected sense of fragility during busy season. Decisions bottleneck at the owner level, scope quietly expands, and workload grows without a corresponding increase in stability.

00:00 – Why Tax Season Feels Heavier for Accounting Firm Owners
02:18 – The Illusion of Stability During Busy Season
05:04 – Are You the Bottleneck in Your Accounting Firm?
07:46 – Stability Shift #1: Value Pricing vs Hourly Billing
10:32 – Stability Shift #2: Decision Ownership and Team Accountability
13:41 – Stability Shift #3: Workload Design and Scope Control
16:52 – Case Study: How One Tax Firm Increased Profit and Reduced Owner Stress

In this episode of Accounting Firm Growth Strategies, Loren Fogelman, business coach and founder of Business Success Solution, explores why the pressure you feel during tax season is not a productivity problem. It is a stability problem.

This episode breaks down how firm stability is often concentrated on the owner rather than built into the structure of the business. You will learn how pricing decisions, decision ownership, and workload design quietly shift risk onto the firm owner and why this becomes most visible during tax season.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why busyness creates the appearance of control without real stability

• How owner dependency forms through pricing and decision flow

• What it takes to design firm stability instead of absorbing it personally

• How value pricing supports predictable margin and workload reduction

• Where to start if you want to reduce hours while increasing revenue

Whether you run a tax practice, bookkeeping firm, or accounting firm with a small team, this episode will help you identify exactly where your firm depends on you to function and what to do about it.

Watch now to gain clarity on how to shift stability into your firm’s structure, engage quality clients, and reduce workload without compromising client outcomes.