The FanCAS-Kit

Stop building CAS from scratch.

The operating framework we wish we'd had when we built our first CAS practices. Not a template pack and not a course. The actual infrastructure: strategy, services, pricing, people, technology, process and growth.

Why It Exists

You can build all of this yourself. We did. It took years.

Every practice standing up CAS solves the same problems in the same order, usually by trial and error, usually while serving live clients.

Which clients are right. What the packages are. How to price them. Who does the work and at what level. What the close looks like. Where the technology lives. How you know if any of it is profitable.

The FanCAS-Kit is those answers, written down by the practitioners who already made the mistakes.

The Framework

The phases that matter.

Start where you are. Most practices find the gaps are not where they expected.

Phase 01

Start Here & Strategy

Write-up versus CAS, ideal client profile, barriers to entry and the honest assessment of whether your practice is ready.

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Phase 02

CAS Revenue Strategy

Revenue streams, revenue goals, projection modeling, pricing structures and the growth model behind them.

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Phase 03

People

Staffing matrix, job descriptions by level, onboarding your team, offshore best practices and employee metrics.

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Phase 04

Platform

Technology stack, governance, security and access to client data, and the folder and naming structures that keep it sane.

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Phase 05

Operations

Client acceptance, engagement letters, onboarding checklists, close procedures, charge hours and billable time definitions.

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Phase 06

Process & Growth

Cross-selling, upselling, raising fees on existing clients, converting tax clients, and offboarding when it's time.

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Look Inside

A representative slice, not the whole library.

Here's the architecture and a few examples so you can judge the depth. The underlying documents stay behind the paywall.

FanCAS-Kit › Revenue Strategy
Video Price With Purpose
Pricing considerations and how to build a pricing model that scales instead of capping you.
Toolkit Revenue Streams & CAS Offerings
A framework for identifying and packaging CAS revenue opportunities across every stream in the Kit.
Interactive CAS Revenue Projection Matrix
Model the clients, pricing and staffing required to hit your revenue goals.
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FanCAS-Kit › People
Toolkit Staffing Matrix & Descriptions
Who does what at each level, and what that costs you per engagement.
Templates Job Descriptions by Level
CAS Director, CAS Leader, Manager Accountant and Senior Accountant.
Video Offshore Best Practices
Integrating offshore and hybrid teams without losing quality or client trust.
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A growing list of revenue streams

Monthly accounting, advisory, cleanup, cash-to-accrual conversions, technology implementations and conversions, client onboarding, knowledge transfer, audit support, tax support, special projects and change management, with more added as the profession moves.

Operational documents

Client acceptance forms, engagement letters, prospect assessments, onboarding checklists, year-end checklists, termination letters and vendor service agreements.

What Purchase Includes

The Kit comes with a seat at the table.

Buying the FanCAS-Kit includes a 12-month single-user Infinite Ties membership, so you get the community and ongoing education alongside the framework itself.

Free Download

Not ready to buy? Start with the ebook.

Designing a Scalable CAS Practice covers how the work gets scoped, priced, staffed and delivered, and where practices most often lose margin along the way. It's the thinking behind the Kit, produced with Canopy. Free, in exchange for a name and an email.

You can build all of this yourself. Or start with what we already learned.