Jeffrey A Pape Consulting

10/16/2026

Is your accounting / finance department ready for year end?

I am wrapping up a nine month accounting engagement and am now available to help another company improve their accounting function.

THE CHALLENGE:

A company needed an interim controller after their current controller left unexpectedly with limited process documentation.

THE OBJECTIVES:

Keep the accounting function running, improve current processes, speed up the close, and prepare documentation and training for a successful transition to a new controller.

THE RESULTS:

✓ Documented key processes and procedures.

✓ Identified, documented and implemented key tasks to speed up the close.

✓ Improved current processes.

✓ Identified future improvements to be done after the engagement.

✓ Helped prepare new controller for success.

THE LESSON:

Be sure you have your processes and procedures documented in case someone leaves unexpectedly.

Be sure to hire someone with the skill set for this situation. Not everyone can come into a mess and get the trains running and improve processes.

With year end approaching, now is the time to consider your accounting team's readiness.

Let's connect and talk how I can help!

-Jeff

10/13/2026

09/06/2026

Think your Profit & Loss tells the whole story? Think again. A clean-looking P&L can mask balance sheet issues that quietly undermine financial health. In my latest article, I explain why you must dig below the income statement to uncover hidden problems and keep your books truly clean. Read more: https://wix.to/uU7dRTc

Your P&L can look perfectly reasonable while your books are wrong.Over my 30+ year career, I've seen companies believe their books were clean because their income statement looked reasonable.Revenue looked right.Expenses seemed reasonable.Net income was about where management expected it to be.So ev...

08/31/2026

Published a new blog post. What do you think? How fast does your company close? Is it sustainable?

BTW - anyone notice my url shortener. I of course think it's awesome!

Companies love setting aggressive month-end close targets. Five days. Four days. Three days. Sometimes there is a legitimate business reason for the deadline. But other times, when you ask why the company needs to close that quickly, the answer is something like: "Best in class is X days." Or: "Our....

08/24/2026

After 30+ years in business, I boiled my experience down to 5 lessons that every leader should know — from reading financial statements to understanding operations, and why people and culture matter. Read the full post: https://cpamba.co/4iqK2Of

Which lesson do you think matters most in your role? Share below.

After 30+ years in business, I’ve learned a few things.I’ve had the opportunity to look at business from a lot of different seats: CPA, Controller, CFO, consultant, business owner, employee, and a Kellogg MBA with a focus on Marketing and Operations.Here are 5 lessons that have stuck with me thr...

08/01/2026

Here is the start of my official quest to I am going to document the process I go through. For context currently a 15.8 handicap. Low score this year is 82. Been working hard to Here I am using to do the analysis. I did not know I had already paid for this. So far pretty cool.

07/02/2026

Worth sharing...what are your thoughts?

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

This is one of my most passionate beliefs: you were made for more than a small life.

When I was 25 and broke, I was living small. I was thinking small, dreaming small, acting small. I argued about petty things. I complained about minor inconveniences. I blamed other people for my circumstances.

Then my mentor looked me in the eye and said, "Jim, you're capable of so much more than this. Stop living like a victim. Stop thinking small. You have a choice."

That choice is available to everyone, including you.

You can choose to lead a big life—a life of purpose, growth, contribution, and impact. Or you can settle for a small life of comfort, complaints, and mediocrity.

Most people choose small without realizing they're choosing at all. They drift into small thinking, small conversations, small ambitions. They spend their energy on trivial arguments. They're devastated by minor setbacks. They let circumstances dictate their future.

But you don't have to do that.

Let others waste their lives on trivialities—but not you. Let others surrender their dreams to fear—but not you. Let others blame the economy, the government, their boss, their upbringing—but not you.

You can choose to think bigger, dream bigger, act bigger. You can choose to focus on what matters and let the small stuff go. You can choose to take responsibility for your future instead of leaving it to chance.

I made that choice at 25, and it changed everything. I stopped arguing about things that didn't matter. I stopped crying over minor disappointments. I stopped waiting for someone to rescue me.

I started building. I started growing. I started taking responsibility. I started living a life that mattered.

And you can too.

The world doesn't need more people living small lives, complaining about small problems, chasing small pleasures. The world needs people who are willing to think big, serve big, contribute big.

That can be you. But you have to choose it. And you have to choose it every single day.

What are you choosing today—a big life or a small one?

www.jimrohn.com

04/27/2026

This was fun to do. Saw this on another profile. Let’s see how many images here.

ChatGPT Prompt: Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me from my LinkedIn. Here’s my linkedin profile: https://cpamba.co/3OrBt9z