David Cottle Consulting: Background

Background

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Our Philosophy

Our approach addresses a simple, central goal: improve the client’s profitability, productivity, growth, and job satisfaction. Our experience and results show that improved performance requires our clients to invest in people, systems, marketing, and support structures. Usually, that investment does not require additional resources. Instead, we show clients how to redeploy their existing talents, resources, and energy.

We call it “top line management,” because we focus on growing the top line (revenues) while leaving the “middle lines” (expenses) virtually the same. This allows all profit improvements to be internally-financed. We have succeeded because we utilize the existing talents and resources of client firms to enhance client satisfaction and achieve business goals.

David Cottle Consulting has a mission: We want to see our clients earn what they are worth. We could give dozens, if not hundreds, of examples of problems we have seen cause otherwise successful firms to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. Those problems were easily solved once we helped the firms involved address them correctly.

We are unusual in that we unconditionally guarantee that our clients will be completely satisfied with the quality and value of all our products and services or we cheerfully refund their fees.

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D A V I D W. C O T T L E
CPA

David Cottle is an internationally-recognized Certified Public Accountant who works primarily with professional firms to improve their profitability, growth, and management. Author of four books and dozens of articles for professional journals, he has produced numerous audio cassette learning systems, video cassette learning systems, and seminars on management, marketing, and profitability. For over 20 years Dave has studied which management and marketing techniques were successful — and which were not. Dave has found definite features common to most super-successful firms which are missing from firms that are not so successful.

David W. Cottle, CPA, CMC Dave’s books, audio and video cassette learning systems, and seminars are based on his experience working with professional firms in 40 states in the USA and 15 other countries.

Dave has spoken often for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, for State CPA Societies in 26 States and for the University of Miami Accounting Conference.

Dozens of his articles have appeared in publications ranging from The Journal of Accountancy, The Law Management Journal, The Practical Accountant, and The Practicing CPA, to Veterinary Economics and the Texas Bar Journal. Dave served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Journal of Accountancy, Quality Client Service newsletter, the CPA Managing Partner Report, and the Panel of Experts for CPA Partner Hotline newsletter. Several of his articles have been reprinted in AICPA Selected Readings in Management of an Accounting Practice. He formerly edited CPA Digest newsletter published by Harcourt Brace Professional Publications.

Before becoming a consultant, Dave practiced accounting for 12 years in Dallas, Texas, beginning his practice with one client in 1969 and building to a six-figure income as a partner in a successful local firm. During that time he founded and served as first Chief Executive Office of both BKR International (then known as The National CPA Group) and The International Group of Accounting Firms. In 1979 he became Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of The International Group of Accounting Firms and served its members for eight years as a salaried practice management consultant. Since 1987 he has been an independent profitability, management, and marketing consultant to professional firms.

Dave is listed in Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America, and Who’s Who in the South and Southwest. Dave is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the Florida Institute of CPAs, the Texas Society of CPAs.

A native Texan, Dave attended the University of Texas at Austin. He was graduated as a BBA with double majors in Accounting and Mathematics. He passed all parts of the CPA examination in one sitting. Dave has served on numerous professional, civic, and charitable committees.

Dave has made hundreds of highly-rated presentations to firms, associations, professional societies, civic organizations, and business audiences. He was designated an Outstanding Seminar Leader by the Florida Institute of CPAs.

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David Cottle Consulting
3007 Lake Woodward Drive

Eustis, FL 32726

Tel: (352) 301-4725
Fax: (772) 673-0293