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.
June 19, 2018
June 2018 Payroll Channel
Top Payroll Social Media: 3 Reasons Employees May be Disengaged. Maren Hogan, via LinkedIn.https://bit.ly/1P8iiqi Globetrotting Workers Complicate Payroll Taxes. Bloomberg Payroll Blog. https://bit.ly/2sokYNp How to Create a Successful Employee Referral Program. Patriot Software Blog. https://bit.ly/2J1GBtU The Pros and Cons of Unlimited PTO. Zenefits HR Blog.https://bit.ly/2kynWuW Why Giving Salary Ranges During Interviews is a Bad Idea....…
June 19, 2018
How Women Can Close the Confidence Gap to Get Ahead
A recent study from Pew Research found that, in 2017, women were paid 82 percent of what their male counterparts were. To make up this difference, women would need to work 47 extra days per year. And the gap is larger for women of color.
June 19, 2018
Increase Your Firm’s Profits: Add Sales Tax Compliance to Your Services
For years, accountants have heard that our profession is changing. With the advent of new technology, we no longer will be data entry specialists or spend excess billable hours working on tax returns; instead, we have to morph ourselves into trusted ...
June 19, 2018
4 Reasons Firms Should Offer HR Services
No competitive business can be successful without growth. In today’s rapidly changing economic landscape, companies are under pressure to expand market share, seek out new development opportunities, and most importantly, identify unique offerings that ...
June 19, 2018
Trends in CPE for Accountants: Hello Free and Online, Farewell to Fees
As a community of lifelong learners, accountants will benefit greatly from the current shift to online education, an innovation that saves students and presenters time and money. The accounting profession is not immune to such shifts in how people ...
June 19, 2018
A Quarterback and a Playbook: Your Firm’s Tools for Success
What are your firm’s two playbooks? Start by focusing on defining the goals of your current organization. Those goals probably include delivering outstanding client service by creating profit for your clients and yourself; the usual win/win.
June 19, 2018
2018 Review of Travel & Expense Management Systems
Employee travel and expense is ripe for abuse; accidental or intentional. Even when a business sets travel and expense policy, once an employee is on the road, it can be very easy to randomly make purchases without considering that same policy.
June 18, 2018
June 2018 Tax Channel
Top Tax Social Media: New Scam Targets International Taxpayers. Taxing Subjects Blog.https://bit.ly/2xoTz3G Digital Marketing & Your Tax Practice. Canopy Tax Blog.https://bit.ly/2AkjzxA Debunking 4 Myths About Voluntary Disclosure Agreements. Avalara Blog.https://bit.ly/2sovioD Lesson From the Tax Court: A Tax Truism. Bryan Camp, via TaxProf Blog.https://bit.ly/2H3EZxV The Complicated Taxation of Retirement Accounts. Tax Foundation.https://bit.ly/2sqbEIO Top Tax News:...…
June 15, 2018
Why and How: Big Data
If Cognitive Computing drives much of the emerging technology computer science research, most of the data science research is focused on Big Data. Big Data can be analyzed to produce actionable business information. This data analysis need may explain ...
June 13, 2018
The Ideal Hire? Sometimes it’s Not an Accountant
As I’ve written about previously, many firms are expanding into technology consulting, either by buying an existing technology consulting firm or building it from scratch. So it’s no surprise that one of the major skillsets for non-accountant hires is ...
June 12, 2018
Mentorship Programs: How to Make Them Work for Your Firm
Even though your recent graduates have just spent the last several years preparing for their first job, there’s still so much more they need to know. It can be jarring to go straight from school to the fast pace of a public accounting firm.
June 11, 2018
Smart Spend Analysis is Easy When Finance and IT Work Together
When finance leaders collaborate more closely with IT, businesses can more proficiently identify the right user-friendly tools to save money, create efficiencies and improve overall spend analysis. And with the right solutions at hand, finance and IT ...