<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>All types of companies providing financial professional services use, formally or informally, marketing principles and tools for the development of their business, in order to straighten their sustainability. By the end of 2009, in Romania, the financial professional services market has had a relatively constant and predictable development, the mandatory nature of these services being their most important promoter. This article presents the results of a survey aimed to highlight the impact of different marketing principles, techniques and tools on the sustainability of financial professional services in accounting and audit nowadays. The research is based on a questionnaire circulated to professionals with the relevant expertise in the financial-accounting domain. The number of responses obtained was considered meaningful, allowing the research results to be extrapolated to the entire studied population. The respondents, whose anonymity was respected, had multiple choice answers for most of the questions and also having the option of opened answers. The main findings of our research are a starting point in providing solutions to improve the sustainability of financial professional services through a coherent, innovative and effective marketing strategy.</p></abstract>

All types of companies providing financial professional services use, formally or informally, marketing principles and tools for the development of their business, in order to straighten their sustainability. By the end of 2009, in Romania, the financial professional services market has had a relatively constant and predictable development, the mandatory nature of these services being their most important promoter. This article presents the results of a survey aimed to highlight the impact of different marketing principles, techniques and tools on the sustainability of financial professional services in accounting and audit nowadays. The research is based on a questionnaire circulated to professionals with the relevant expertise in the financial-accounting domain. The number of responses obtained was considered meaningful, allowing the research results to be extrapolated to the entire studied population. The respondents, whose anonymity was respected, had multiple choice answers for most of the questions and also having the option of opened answers. The main findings of our research are a starting point in providing solutions to improve the sustainability of financial professional services through a coherent, innovative and effective marketing strategy.

Sustainability of financial professional services through marketing strategy- an empirical research

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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All types of companies providing financial professional services use, formally or informally, marketing principles and tools for the development of their...

Sustainability of financial professional services through marketing strategy- an empirical research

Published Online: Aug 26, 2017

Page range: 121 - 130

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/picbe-2017-0013

Keywords
marketing of services, sustainability, sustainable business, professional services, accounting

© 2017 Adriana Dutescu et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Sustainability of financial professional services through marketing strategy- an empirical research

Published Online: Aug 26, 2017

Page range: 121 - 130

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/picbe-2017-0013

Keywordsmarketing of services, sustainability, sustainable business, professional services, accounting

© 2017 Adriana Dutescu et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
marketing of services, sustainability, sustainable business, professional services, accounting