Client Experience Deteriorates When a Trusted CPA Sells or Retires
A longtime accounting client describes a sharp decline in service quality, communication, and billing accuracy after their CPA retired and sold the practice, including a discovered ten-thousand-dollar discrepancy; reviews suggest this pattern of post-acquisition client mistreatment recurs at the same firm.
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