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LCvista Announces Plus: Helping Firms Scale L&D Without Adding Headcount





SEATTLE, WA, May 28, 2026 - LCvista announces Plus, a software platform to help accounting firms scale L&D without adding headcount.


Plus is the newest solution for accounting firms to support more learners as they pursue their talent development goals with LCvista, the leading professional readiness platform for the accounting profession. LCvista serves 80% of the top 200 accounting firms and partners with top alliances.


Plus launches as LCvista celebrates one year of Spiirall managed L&D services. Together with Plus, LCvista’s customizable managed service offerings help firms apply industry best practices to drive professional development outcomes.


Why L&D Matters Now More than Ever

Today, many accounting firms face the challenge of growing in the context of extreme talent scarcity. According to The Wall Street Journal, the accounting workforce shrank 17% between 2020-2022 alone[1], attributed to a wave of retirements alongside a lack of new entrants into the field.


And while the reduction in the accounting workforce is predicted to continue, more than 75% of accountants think their firms will need the same or greater number of highly skilled staff members to meet client demand[2], even as tools like AI transform the way firms operate.


The imperative to grow in a way that is at once significant and sustainable has never been stronger. Add heavy PE activity, rapid technological changes, and a shifting regulatory landscape into the mix, and a full professional readiness solution becomes essential to helping today’s accounting firms compete and succeed.


Why? Developing the best, most skilled talent is hard, thoughtful work, especially as firms grow and demands on L&D continue to increase. Efficiently tracking and managing CPE compliance across the firm remains essential to ensure professionals are ready to practice, making comprehensive, audit‑ready compliance management a foundational firm capability.


With that foundation in place, firms now have an opportunity to accelerate their professional readiness practices through learning that aligns with firm goals. As professional development needs expand across roles, practices, and career stages, those efforts must be able to scale across the firm as demand grows.


Leveling up readiness can take many forms, from building capabilities to support CAS offerings and client management to developing future leaders and succession pipelines. The L&D team is mission‑critical to advancing firm priorities by designing programs that drive strategic professional development as well as staff retention.


“At LCvista, we hear from many firms that talent development is the key to staying ahead of their competitors,” says Mark Rothert, CEO of LCvista. “And it's rapidly evolving as fewer people enter the field, AI reshapes work, and firms expand into advisory and CAS. That’s why we’re focused on enabling firms to scale and level-up their L&D programs, so they can build skills firm-wide to support growth.”


How LCvista Plus and Spiirall Managed Services Scale L&D

Over 400 firms use LCvista today to manage compliance risk and deliver goal-driven learning. For firms needing to scale L&D with the resources they have, Plus builds efficiencies and provides insights to enable growth. With Plus as the foundation, Spiirall managed L&D services help firms further develop their #1 asset, talent, with services that deliver hands-on support, expertise, and speed to drive professional development outcomes.


Plus helps firms:

  • Support more learners with automatic credit tracking across formats as learner volume grows.

  • Manage credential complexity as firms grow through standardizing license and certification lifecycles.

  • Inform decisions and plan next steps with dashboards to understand readiness and progress across the firm.


Spiirall managed services help firms:

  • Power L&D by extending team capacity, maximizing learning, and handling administration, including CPE certificate management, whether there is a team in place or no team at all.

  • Focus development effort through proprietary frameworks to identify the right skills to build, and how to build them, so learning drives firm growth.

  • Build training plans that get results by applying best practices for every practice, level, and role and pulling from a library of 5,000+ courses from 15+ providers.

  • Deliver specialized training with exclusive courses based on Spiirall's first-hand experience filling key development gaps at top accounting firms, such as AI and CAS.


LCvista Plus and Spiirall Managed Services help firms continuously level-up their capabilities, with a solution they won’t outgrow. With the shortage of talent in the accounting industry, LCvista’s solutions provide firms with the tools – and the people – to extend their capacity to deliver industry-leading learning programs, without having to add headcount.


Learn More About LCvista Plus and Spiirall Managed Services

LCvista is committed to helping accounting firms transform compliance into firm-wide talent advantage. If your team is looking to manage compliance risk, scale L&D, and level-up talent, LCvista can help. To see what LCvista can do for you, request a demo.


About LCvista

LCvista transforms compliance into firm-wide talent advantage with a professional readiness platform and services built for accounting firms. Trusted by 400+ firms, including 80% of the top 200, LCvista manages CPE compliance risk, scales learning and development, and delivers firm-wide professional growth. LCvista offers a software platform for firms to fully manage compliance and learning programs, managed services from Spiirall to grow talent and drive outcomes, and responsive, expert customer support.

 

Media Contact: Fatima Naqvi, fnaqvi@lcvista.com


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