Accounting August 4, 2026
Nominations Open for Innovation Awards and 40 Under 40 Awards
Nominations are currently being accepted for CPA Practice Advisor's 40 Under 40, 20 Under 40, and Tax & Accounting Tech Innovation Awards.
January 2, 2019
How to Better Engage Workers in 2019
It’s no surprise when even the most driven professionals find themselves switching off for a few minutes during the workday for any number of reasons, such as fatigue, frustration or a lack of clarity about an assignment. What might be a surprise, ...
January 1, 2019
Accounting Predictions for 2019
December has come again, and it’s time to predict the big stories for 2019. Here are the seven trends I think will have transformational impact on practitioners and their firms in the coming year:
December 20, 2018
5 Ways Poor Performers Hurt Your Accounting Firm
Almost every employee gets off their game at some point in their career. It’s not the end of the world, and the right kind of coaching often will turn around underperformers and get them back to full productivity.
December 19, 2018
5 Opportunities to Add Value to Your Small Business Clients
Your small business clients are uniquely suited to help your practice grow; in fact, they are very likely your most innovative thinkers who are most open to new ideas. However, due to limited finances and staffing, they may be more in need of your ...
December 19, 2018
How Local SEO is Important to Accounting Firms
As the Internet and Google is ever-changing, so is the behavior of its users and their needs which are currently shifting from global to locally-oriented searches. Currently it’s estimated that 59% of Internet searches are now performed with local intent and approximately half of all mobile searches are conducted to find information about a local...…
December 17, 2018
Firm Leaders: Are Your People Lost?
Understanding the mind of the new millennial generation is one of the growing challenges firms of all sizes are faced with today and this challenge often results in firms feeling that these new millennials are entitled and lazy, but are they really ...
December 17, 2018
How to Market to Childcare Businesses
While word of mouth and referrals are still the best marketing tools for you, here are some additional tactics you can use to market your firm to in-home day care clients.
December 17, 2018
December 2018 Payroll Channel
Should Employees Share Their Salary Information With Peers? By Isaac M. O’Bannon, Managing Editor Millennials (ages 18-37) are more likely than other generations to share their salary information with others, including coworkers, friends outside of work, romantic partners who they don’t live with, and family members other than their spouse, according to a new Bankrate.com report....…
December 17, 2018
No Need to Fear Blockchain: What CPAs Need to Know
Eighty-four percent of executives say their companies have at least some involvement in a blockchain project, according to PwC's 2018 Global Blockchain Survey.
December 17, 2018
The Best Technology Enhancement
A colleague recently shared an amusing story with me. At a firm she worked for, an older partner refused to use email. Instead, he tasked a staff member with sending and receiving all email to and from clients on his behalf. As if that weren’t bad enough, the partner insisted the staff member format all...…
December 17, 2018
Got Bots?
When we talk about AI, the image that comes to mind for most people is robots doing many of the jobs we’re doing today. But AI is not just a futuristic vision for accounting firms. In proactive firms, the future is already here.
December 17, 2018
What’s Next for Online Sales Tax and How to Prepare Your Small Business Clients
This summer the Supreme Court ruled that states have the authority to require businesses to collect online sales tax on purchases even if the business does not have a physical presence in the state. This decision has the potential to impact the way your small business clients conduct business online, but so far they may...…