Retirement September 30, 2026
History of Social Security COLAs
The predicted 2027 cost-of-living adjustment of 3.5% would rank 19th among the increases implemented since 1977, the first year Social Security began calculating the annual boost.
December 10, 2021
Bookgel Launches AI-Assisted Pricing & Closing App for Accountants
Bookgel was developed by Allan Ratafia and Marc Howard, the duo that brought the accounting profession BizPayO, a 3-in-1 web platform for online payments, proposals, and automated Google reviews. From the BizPayO platform, Ratafia and Howard, who ...
December 10, 2021
How to Better Monetize Your Business as a Tax Pro
Oftentimes the offering firms have trouble quantifying the most is advisory services. Tax pros give advice continuously to their clients without charging them, writing it off as a one-off case when more times than not those clients come back time ...
December 10, 2021
Accounting and Finance Hiring Trends and Tips for 2022
Technology and staffing issues have changed dramatically over the last two years. So, what can firms expect when it comes to hiring and staff management in 2022 and beyond?
December 10, 2021
How Taxpayers Can Get Ready for the 2022 Tax Season
There is still time to take actions in December to help when it comes time to file federal tax returns in 2022, including special steps related to Economic Impact Payments and advance Child Tax Credit payments.
December 10, 2021
How to Create a Frictionless Busy Season
I know I sound like a broken record when other tax pros ask me about the “busy” in busy season. My response? “The Berg Advisors' busy season runs smoothly with few surprises.”
December 9, 2021
Avoiding the Inevitable
Before March comes and we feel overwhelmed, an hour of effort now can save 100 hours when it really counts. While you may not be able to find more people, you have options to intentionally navigate this path forward and have a successful busy season.
December 8, 2021
How a Learning Culture Can Transform Your Practice
One of the challenges associated with team learning is that everyone is at a different level. Some people are great with technology; others know everything about compliance. And sometimes, people don’t want to let others know they’re struggling with a ...
December 3, 2021
SurePrep and Thomson Reuters Partner for Streamlined Tax Prep
Thomson Reuters and SurePrep will provide open and royalty-free access to each other’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), enabling increased investment in product integration that ultimately benefits firms by streamlining and automating ...
December 2, 2021
Business Execs Lower Profit Expectations on Inflation Worries
Profit expectations are also under pressure, with the anticipated growth rate for the next 12 months dropping to 2.1% from 2.5% last quarter. Revenue growth projections, on the other hand, are up to 4.7% from 4.3%, quarter over quarter.
November 29, 2021
41% of Professional Staff Managers Allowing Employees To Set Their Own Hours
Managers most likely to offer flexible schedules work in large companies with 1,000 or more employees (44%); marketing (48%), legal (42%) and administrative (41%) departments; and hybrid teams, where some employees work in the office and some work.
November 29, 2021 Sponsored
Integration of QuickBooks Online and Mailchimp Create Personalized Marketing Campaigns
Getting new business, and engaging existing clients or customers is crucial in growing any company, whether it’s your firm or your clients’ businesses. With the vast array of multiple, unintegrated financial and marketing tools available in today’s ...
November 24, 2021
$15 Per Hour Minimum Wage for Federal Contract Workers Goes Into Effect in 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor announced on November 24, 2021, a final rule that implements Executive Order 14026 to increase the hourly minimum wage for employees on federal contracts beginning Jan. 30, 2022. President Biden signed the order on ...