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# Accounting Today: Can your firm thrive from the Coronavirus?

 by [Bobby Riesterer](https://blog.thinkvisionary.com/author/bobby-riesterer)  | Apr 7, 2020 | [News](https://blog.thinkvisionary.com/tag/news) 

![Accounting Today: Can your firm thrive from the Coronavirus?](https://blog.thinkvisionary.com/hubfs/Thrive%20from%20Coronavirus_blog.jpg)

The president of The Visionary Group, Bob Lewis was recently featured in Accounting Today.

### Can your firm thrive from the coronavirus?

What a great question. Right now, most CPA firms are working through the CARES Act. This is going to create a short-term revenue windfall, but once that slows, the extent of real client damage will emerge. Some clients are thriving, but most are suffering. Thriving clients might also experience a revenue drop once COVID passes. The wildcard is how much could firm revenue shrink? [Read More at Accounting Today.](https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/can-your-firm-thrive-from-the-coronavirus)

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