Questions for Audit Partner Ben Frey (Interview April 2023)
I think the mistake people make is thinking that if you plan it out on paper that it will all work out. They think you just need to allocate this person to be the leader of this and that person to be the leader of that. In reality, you are introducing one group of individuals to another group of individuals and they each have their own views which are unlikely to be the same. With a professional services firm, an additional complexity is that they are owner managed businesses.