Why Are Accountancy Fees Sold In Blocks?

Why Are Accountancy Fees Sold In Blocks?

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I am curious. Why are a number of clients in a firm of accountants who may suffer the indignity of being offloaded to another firm (a new kid in the block) sold off as a block?
What exactly is a block of clients? Is it a residential area in which large numbers of various accountants' clients live. Also, is the size of a block of clients infinitely variable?
Finally, is the term linked in any way to that expression "chip of the old block"? Has anybody ever considered the apparent undignified postion of an offloaded block of humans?

Accountants need to re think their language and re instate the deserved dignity which should be afforded to their clients.
Clive Griffiths

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Duane Jackson
By DuaneJAckson
28th Oct 2007 20:13

Oversensitive?
I'm not sure i this is a genuine question or just a poke at accountants terminology.

I'm assuming the reason they are sold in blocks is because a single client on it's own isn't worth a huge amount, so it makes sense to group them together in blocks.

There's no fixed size of blocks AFAIK.

I think you're being a tad oversensitive about the terminology. It's not humans in blocks, it's their fees/business. The same could be applied to software vendors calling their customers "users".

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By neileg
29th Oct 2007 10:49

Get a life, Clive
Have you nothing better to do?

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By User deleted
31st Oct 2007 06:53

We could call them customers
But I would hate to clients to think we treated them or thought about them in the same way as HMRC....

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