Dan Sautner, CA- Author of 10 Tips for Successful Business

Dan Sautner, CA

With an extensive accounting and financial background, Dan Sautner has taken Padgett Business Services to the forefront of franchised accounting services for small business throughout the United States and Canada. In 1999 he spearheaded the launch of company owned offices in Baltimore, Maryland as well as a payroll services company, PayTrak, which is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and Montreal, Quebec. In 2001 Sautner stepped down as the CEO of the organization to work on special projects with the company.

Sautner has written extensively on small business issues, with articles appearing in such publications as Business Opportunities Journal and Franchising World. He has appeared on several radio and television programs, including the nationally syndicated “Business Day Radio,” and is called upon as an expert resource by the Wall Street Journal and other business publications, to interpret the economic shifts in the increasing small business sector.

Sautner devised and is the primary analyst for “Small Business – The Engine of Our Economy,” a quarterly study conducted by Padgett from its base of more than 12,000 clients nationwide. Prior to the creation of this survey, there had been little in the way of quantitative results for small business as a whole. Sautner has translated the implications of the survey results for local market media from coast to coast, including the Cincinnati Enquirer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Orange County Register and the Denver Post.

He has twice been selected by Accounting Today as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the Industry, and his creative approach to delivering superior service has earned Padgett Accounting Today’s Gold Medal Award for Achievement in Client Service twice. Sautner has also received the Franchising Innovation Award in 1998 and the Franchise of the Year Award in 1999 from the University of Texas at El Paso.

An Athens, Georgia resident, Sautner graduated from the University of Waterloo (BA, 1977) and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (1981). Sautner currently serves as Chair of the Georgia Unit of Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic and is a member of the National Tax Education Institute Advisory Council.