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Tax Season Survival Index Measures the Human Cost of Tax Season on Professionals
The TSSI measures the cost to sleep, to health, to relationships, and to the professionals who run the engine of public accounting.
February 14, 2018
A Cybersecurity Call to Action – 6 Pitfalls for CPAs to Avoid with Clients
Many companies have not performed a formal cyber risk assessment, which makes it difficult to develop an appropriate response to those risks. What kind of data is being protected? What cyber threats will the client face? Every dollar spent on ...
February 13, 2018
The Gig Economy and Accountants
Bankers driving Lyft. Software engineers launching businesses on Amazon. Marketing professionals picking up consulting projects. Welcome to the gig economy. Where employees have a side hustle, or three, and others have left the paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle of Corporate America for the project-to-project grind. According to Investopedia, the gig economy is defined as an economy where temporary,...…
February 13, 2018
Why and How: A Strategy for Innovation
Over the last two to three years we have watched pundits and consultants promote ideas around emerging technologies. Some of the claims are ludicrous, loony, and ill-informed. Others are trying to position, parlay and learn. You’ve seen this column ...
February 12, 2018
The Good and Bad of Working with Millennials in the Accounting Field
Working with millennials can be challenging, but all in all, they have some really good ideas, and it is good to shake this industry up a little bit here and there.
February 12, 2018
Building Service Models for Handling Uncertainty and Tax Reform
If tax professionals are still scrambling to decipher tax reform and the various code sections of the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, how do small business clients and individual taxpayers feel with all this uncertainty? What can we, as their trusted advisors, do...
February 9, 2018
Be Relentless in the Pursuit of Change
Has your firm started the transformation to advisory services? If not, in the not so distant future you will be too behind to catch up. That sounds harsh, but it’s better to face the reality that soon the gap will be so wide that your options for ...
February 8, 2018
Dos and Don’ts for Tapping Your Team’s Innovative Side
Innovation even affects your ability to hire the best and brightest to your team. An overwhelming majority (87 percent) of professionals in a Robert Half survey said they pay attention to a potential employer’s reputation for being innovative.
February 8, 2018
Advisor Group Partners with The W Source to Support Advancement of Women in Financial Services
Launched in September 2017 with corporate offices in Santa Barbara, CA., The W Source helps female professionals grow their businesses by establishing networking groups of 20-25 professionals in local areas and offering proprietary tools and ...
February 6, 2018
5 Qualities to Differentiate Your Accounting Firm
The days of thinking that “process” is something that only low-level staff and administrative staff work on are over. Those days should’ve been over ten years ago, but they’re definitely over today. In future-ready firms, process is a core strategic ...
February 5, 2018
BDO Acquires Consulting Division of PBC Advisors, Expands Healthcare Advisory Practice
That national accounting and advisory firm of BDO USA, LLP has expanded its healthcare advisory services practice through the acquisition of the consulting division of PBC Advisors.
January 31, 2018
Accounting Firm RSM Acquires Security and Privacy Consulting Firm SecureState
This transaction expands RSM’s consulting practice and its growing presence in the Ohio market by adding more than 50 talented individuals to the team. It also enhances the firm’s growing security and privacy practice through SecureState’s deep ...
January 29, 2018
Atlanta Accounting Firm Aprio, LLP Acquires RRB Business Services
RRB is a boutique accounting firm with 30 years of experience serving a diverselient base of privately owned companies, non-profit organizations, high net worth individuals and estates as well as small, commercial, professional and industrial businesses.