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Rose Report: Issue 39

Rose Report Celebrating 25 yearsCelebrating 25 years of exceeding client expectations

The year is 1994. The average person doesn’t own a cell phone. Only 2 million computers are connected to the internet and Amazon and Yahoo! are just in their beginning stages. It’s also the year that Ted Rose began transforming the finance and accounting industry by founding Rose Financial Solutions (RFS).

As RFS celebrates its 25 th anniversary, we sat down with RFS founder and CEO Ted Rose for a trip down memory lane as well as a look at his vision for the future of the company.

How did you come to coin the term ‘accounting outsourcing’?

Back in 1994 when I founded RFS, there weren’t any CPA firms set up to do operational accounting. I knew there had to be companies out there in need of sophisticated accounting support, but without the resources for a fully-staffed internal department. That’s where I got the idea for RFS. There was no existing terminology to explain our business model in the accounting space and I realized that outsourcing was exactly what RFS was doing for our clients.

How has RFS evolved over the years?

Since our founding, RFS has embraced a philosophy of continuous process improvement, both internally and externally. I have a passion for innovation using technology and I am constantly looking for new ways to grow and innovate the firm and our solutions. As a result, we’ve found ways to incorporate the extensive benefits of combining technological advancements with our finance and accounting services. Today, RFS focuses on providing solutions that go beyond traditional finance and accounting outsourcing with our Finance as a Solution approach that combines our cutting-edge technology platform, RFSWorkflow, and our team of experienced finance, accounting, tax, and HR professionals.

What do you attribute RFS’ success to?

Our success is all about our people and their commitment to staying true to RFS’ mission of delivering solutions that allow our clients to achieve more with financial confidence.

What’s your vision for the future of RFS?

I’m proud of our 25-year track record of improving our clients’ financial performance through financial clarity. At the same time, we are focused on the future and continuing to deliver value to our clients through our state-of-the-art finance and accounting innovations. RFS will continue to build a bright financial future for our clients, helping them reach their financial goals this year, in 2025 and beyond!

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Each step has been layered onto the one before it, compounding the value delivered to every ROSE client. This is not a pivot. It is a progression. "I founded this company because I believed growing organizations deserved the same financial infrastructure as the largest companies in the world. That belief has not changed. What has changed is how fast we can now deliver on it." -- Ted Rose, President, CEO, and Founder, Rose Financial Solutions The 2030 Destination: A Measurable Commitment With this announcement, ROSE is clarifying its 2030 destination. The measure of success is not a single automation metric. It is a complete financial infrastructure outcome: every growth-oriented ROSE client reaching an RFRI ( ROSE Financial Readiness Index ) score of 85 or higher, representing enterprise-grade readiness across all five dimensions of financial system health: Structural Foundation, Systems Architecture, Operational Discipline, Financial Intelligence, and Strategic Enablement. Automation is the primary engine that drives clients toward that destination. The 2026 agentic AI launch accelerates that engine. With more than 100 AI agents launched this year, ROSE clients are moving toward that destination faster than at any point in the firm's history. The infrastructure improvements of the last 30 years are compounding, and the pace is accelerating. For more information about this transformation, see Ted Rose's weekly newsletter, Decision Ready Finance . A Journey, Not a Product When a company partners with ROSE, it is not purchasing software. It is joining a continuously improving financial infrastructure that has been compounding for decades. Clients benefit from every advance in Easby's capabilities, every workflow refinement, and every AI agent activated, without managing the architecture decisions, the integration complexity, or the technology risk that come with building finance systems from scratch. 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ROSE exists so our clients can do that with complete confidence in their financial infrastructure, without having to build it themselves." -- Ted Rose A Track Record That Separates ROSE From New Entrants ROSE's AI and automation advancements are backed by a documented operating history that distinguishes the firm from new entrants: Rules-based workflow automation: 2005 Machine learning: 2014 Generative AI: 2025 Agentic AI: 2026 ROSE clients pass through audits with confidence, including DCAA, financial, bank review, and compliance reviews while the firm's Finance as a Service model delivers 30 to 60 percent cost savings compared to building comparable internal capabilities. Easby is built on Appian , an enterprise-grade, hyper-automation platform trusted by some of the world's largest organizations. The 2026 agentic AI deployment is not built from scratch. 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