Collaboration and leadership. These two concepts are critical to the success of your firm and when you have both working in tandem you accelerate your firm’s results, profitability and growth. Yes, we need strong leaders at the top of the organization but strong leaders recognize they can’t drive success on their own. They build a strong leadership team around them and leverage members...

When it comes to copyright laws in the United States, we’ve made two enormous blunders. The first was when we allowed unfettered corporate greed to change the laws to a state so ridiculous that virtually no work will ever again enter the public domain; the second was when we casually allowed the emerging Internet to respond to the first blunder by simply ignoring copyrights and declaring all...

An Overview of Inbound Marketing A guest post from Alan Vitberg , Owner of VitbergLLC , a marketing agency specializing in accounting and consulting firm marketing. Today, most accounting and consulting firms spend their marketing budget on outbound marketing to reach prospects. Outbound marketing, also known as traditional marketing, targets a broad audience using print ads...

Businesses of all sizes will always need accounting experts to help them see the present and plan for the future, and even in the still struggling economy, career opportunities for accounting executives has been growing. According to a recent article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution that cited the latest Cerius Executive Demand Index report, "Hiring has been brisk for executives with...

The IRS regularly conducts national, regional, and local compliance initiative projects (CIPs) to study perceived areas of noncompliance. The IRS uses the data from these projects to develop more comprehensive projects and allocate its audit resources in the areas showing significant noncompliance. Below is part one of a two-part series of IRS alerts detailing IRS audit projects for...

SmartVault’s latest service enhancement is a biggie—the SmartVault Plug-in for Microsoft Outlook . The plug-in allows users to leverage the convenience of email and SmartVault’s compliant solution for sharing documents. What this means for accounting professionals is an integrated solution for sending, receiving, and managing documents securely inside of Outlook without having to change the...

I know a lot of professionals who are frequently mobile, whether it's accountants like Jason Blumer, CPA, who prefer to sit in a coffee shop all day, those who are audit experts like Tim Gavin, CPA, and are more likely at a client's than their own office, or those like Joyce Washington, CPA, who work from everywhere with a laptop. One of their biggest productivity challenges comes from growing...