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If you’re waiting until year-end to reassess your CPA, you’ve already missed the best opportunity. Here’s why the months right after tax season are when founders should be asking harder questions.

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Most founders don’t question their CPA relationship unless the cracks start to affect the business. That usually doesn’t look like a single dramatic mistake, but more like consistent delayed answers, reactive planning, filings handled only at the deadline and important decisions made without a clear view of the tax impact. In the middle of tax season, those problems are easy to wave off as part of the rush.