Surviving the Storm: Accounting Firm Puts Disaster Recovery Plan to the Ultimate Test
Faced with power outages, client losses and homeless staff, how WithumSmith+Brown overcame Hurricane Sandy
Faced with power outages, client losses and homeless staff, how WithumSmith+Brown overcame Hurricane Sandy
Whether you built your firm from scratch, partnered with other professionals from the start or started with a single client and a dream, your practice is your future. However, even sole practitioners are never alone.
Paper is inefficient and doesn’t easily scale. It is a pain to store, retrieve and share. And yet companies and accountants of all sizes are dependent on it to manage their businesses.
A client newsletter is one of the most effective ways to ‘speak’ to your clients. A newsletter not only provides a regularly scheduled touch (or contact), which makes your clients feel connected to you, it also builds loyalty and drives sales.
At the risk of insulting your firm, it is rare to see a document management project implemented correctly. Further, I don’t believe a document management project is ever complete. Let me explain why.
Imagine running a business out of your home for more than 25 years when a divorce forces you to move offices and reevaluate your business strategy.
Whether we like it or not, cloud and mobile technologies are catapulting us toward an anytime/anywhere work environment. No longer are we bound by the four walls we call “the office” to check things off our to-do list. This shift of work being completely about what you do, and not about where you do it is a significant one.
From the May 2013 issue. Accountants who have ever lost a computer, smartphone, or tablet know how frustrating it is to try to locate it, especially if the item was lost during business travel. There are a number of tracking applications which, if installed and activated, will let you locate where your device last connected […]