The CAS Cache

Want to grow your firm’s Client Accounting and Advisory Services (CAS)? The CAS Cache unpacks what works (and what doesn’t) in CAS based on real-world experiences. Tune in for expert insights, success and failure stories, and strategies to help your accounting firm build a stronger CAS offering.

The CAS Cache is a business podcast hosted by Luke Templin, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Luke Templin hosts The CAS Cache, a business show with 15 episodes published.

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  CAS Clarity in 5: Michelle Röse on 30-Hour Workweeks & Assisted Entrepreneurship

  Mar 3, 202610 minS0

  <p>What if assisted entrepreneurship could unlock sustainable CAS growth without burnout? In this episode of CAS Clarity in 5, Michelle Röse shares how Breakaway built a debt-free, franchise-based model that empowers advisors to own their firms, without back-office chaos, and scale with a 30-hour workweek focus.</p><p>🌐 Breakaway: https://BreakawayBA.com<br> 🔗 Michelle Röse’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleroseba/</p><p>👉 Subscribe to The CAS Cache newsletter for full insights and weekly CAS strategies: https://cas.beehiiv.com/</p>

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  CAS Clarity in 5: Questian Telka on Building a Mission-Driven CAS Firm

  Jan 22, 20268 minS0

  <p>What if focusing on client retention instead of rapid growth could unlock a more sustainable CAS firm? In this episode of CAS Clarity in 5, Questian Telka shares how mission-driven work, the right KPIs, and documented processes shaped her nonprofit-focused practice.</p><p>🌐 She Counts Podcast: https://shecountspodcast.com<br>🔗 Questian Telka on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/questian-telka-ea/</p><p>👉 Subscribe to The CAS Cache newsletter for full insights and weekly CAS strategies: https://cas.beehiiv.com/</p>

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  Why CAS Advisory Isn’t a Training Problem in Accounting Firms

  Dec 19, 20254 minS0

  <p>A question from The Kick C@$ Community Roundtable sparked a deeper conversation about advisory within accounting firms that want to offer CAS.</p><p>In this episode, I break down why advisory struggles are rarely about training and more about alignment, communication, and capacity. I share hard-earned lessons from building real-time bookkeeping, insights from Greg Crabtree, and two practical ways to expand advisory without burning out your team.</p><p>If you’re thinking about scaling CAS advisory, this is the filter to start with.</p>

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  Better CAS Advisory: A Narrow Bookkeeping Experiment

  Dec 5, 20254 minS0

  <p>What if avoiding bookkeeping entirely could actually weaken your advisory work? In this episode, Luke Templin breaks down how a single CAS client revealed the limitations of delivering CFO and advisory services without reliable bookkeeping fundamentals in place.</p><p>Luke shares why he originally built a fractional CFO firm that deliberately avoided bookkeeping and what forced him to rethink that model. When client books became inconsistent, delayed, and unreliable during tax season. The solution wasn’t reviving full-service bookkeeping, but designing a narrow, advisory-aligned bookkeeping experiment focused on one objective: accurate numbers that support advisory.</p><p>Sponsored by...

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  CAS Clarity in 5: Nikole Mackenzie on Making Business Fun

  Nov 25, 20257 minS0

  <p>What if your CAS firm’s real superpower was making business fun again for clients by killing cashflow stress and focusing on one core KPI?</p><p>In this episode:</p><p>🎯 Firm Goal/Mission: Make business fun for clients</p><p><br></p><p>⚙️ Favorite Tech Tool: Reach Reporting</p><p><br></p><p>📊 Favorite KPI: Gross profit margin</p><p><br></p><p>🔑 Getting Unstuck: A quick ChatGPT brainstorm</p><p><br></p><p>🔮 Did Sooner: Launch a newsletter + EOS L10 Meetings</p><p> 🌐 Momentum Accounting<br> 🔗 Nikole's LinkedIn</p><p>👉 Subscribe to The CAS Cache newsletter for full insights and weekly

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