Something Quietly Hit Accounting Firms in 2025. Here's What to Do About It. | Erica Goode

The Accounting Leads Now Podcast

The Accounting Leads Now Podcast
Something Quietly Hit Accounting Firms in 2025. Here's What to Do About It. | Erica Goode
Jun 04, 2026 Season 4 Episode 78
James Donovan

Your pipeline feeling a little thin? Clients suddenly asking more questions about price?

You're not imagining it. And you're not alone.

Since fall 2024, a perfect storm has been building, AI-assisted offshore firms, a softening economy, tariff anxiety, and clients who are now very aware there are cheaper options. The firms getting hit hardest? Bookkeeping and fractional CFO. And the old playbook of "raise your prices, show your value" doesn't always work when someone is genuinely watching their cash.

Erica Goode isn't here to sugarcoat it. Former KPMG auditor. Former Walgreens finance exec. Now running a virtual fractional CFO firm from the Idaho mountains, on her own terms and founder of Aligned Accountants, the community for solo firm owners who want a real life AND a real business.

In this episode: why she saw the pricing shift coming, what the actual conversation looks like when a client wants to spend less, and the one question that tells you whether to fight for the client or let them walk.

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