Taxes May 1, 2026
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.
September 26, 2017
How Building a Team Around You Can Help Your Practice
Let’s face it, accountants are usually the only professional who your client knows. Because of tax filings, we have to see our clients at least once a year. During that interaction, we are asked legal questions, financial planner questions – you name it.
September 23, 2017
Haskell & White CPA Helps Fight Child Abuse
The Child Abuse Prevention Center (CAPC) is Orange County’s leading not-for-profit organization focused exclusively on the prevention of child abuse. The early intervention programs of the Prevention Center have a well-documented record of working to ...
September 23, 2017
After the Storm: How to Run a Firm in a Federal Disaster Area
My first experience with a hurricane was in 1979 when Hurricane David brushed up the east coast of Florida. I saw how my parents prepared for the storm. They bought nonperishable food, water, and ice, and took cash out of the bank. We had a lot of cl...
September 23, 2017
Washington Accounting Firm Joins CPAsNET
Cordell, Neher & Company PLLC a public accounting firm with offices in North Central Washington, has been selected to join CPAsNET, a network of exceptional accounting firms. Fewer than 30 firms in the nation have the opportunity to be invited to join...
September 21, 2017
Crowe Horwath Acquires Rowbotham
Established in 1991, Rowbotham has four partners and 20 professionals who will join Crowe. The firm’s clients include startup companies, as well as domestic and international investment funds. Private clients include global families, executives and ...
September 21, 2017
Grant Thornton Adds Cybersecurity Awareness and Testing Services
Grant Thornton Cybersecurity Awareness and Testing services offers small, medium and enterprise-sized businesses the ability to identify specific threats facing their organizations and industries. The new capability is designed to define a sound ...
September 21, 2017
September 2017 Firm Management Channel
The office network that tax professionals and accountants use is at risk by hackers looking to do more than just peek at client information: The hackers are trying to take those networks over, says the IRS and state tax agencies. If that happens, the ...
September 20, 2017
Female Partners: A Year Later, Where Are We?
In 2017, female accounting professionals still lack the support they need in the workplace in order to advance their careers. Last year, I wrote a column on the topic of females only being represented in 19% of accounting firm leadership positions, ...
September 19, 2017
New E-Books Offer Steps Toward Future-Readiness for CPAs and Finance Pros
With new technologies poised to redefine the world of finance, one of the most important skills accounting and finance professionals can own today is future-readiness — the ability to be aware, predictive of, and adaptive to emerging trends and ...
September 19, 2017
Accounting Firm UHY Opens 4th Michigan Office
UHY LLP, certified public accountants, a national professional services firm, has announced the opening of its fourth Michigan office in Ann Arbor.
September 19, 2017
CPA Tomorrowland
This is a tantalizing brave new world for younger accountants who like the idea of turning their penchant for number-crunching into a sexier profession, but what about those who are, ahem, reaching their golden age? It kind of sounds like rather than ...
September 19, 2017
How to Create a Culture of Innovation
The word innovation is thrown around a lot in our profession. Everyone wants ideas for doing things faster, easier, cheaper, or better. But rather than drive innovation from within the firm, they’re trying to keep up with what others are doing ...