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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.
March 22, 2017
Apps We Love – Sowing Your Garden
Are you planning a major landscaping overhaul? Consider iScape – there is a free version you can play with that lets you take a picture of the area you want to landscape, then experiment with adding shrubs, trees, flowers, decks and other construction ...
March 22, 2017
6 PR Tips for Accounting Firms
A public relations effort is one of the best ways to build your firm’s brand as well as to gain thought leadership status for your partners and firm owners. Here’s a few steps, tips, and apps that can get your PR launch off to a great start.
March 22, 2017
What is the Thought Leader Symposium?
The symposium itself, which is still hosted by CPA Practice Advisor, provides its members with an opportunity to immerse themselves in deep discussions about pressing issues in the accounting profession, develop opportunities to collaborate, plan ...
March 22, 2017
Is Your Accounting Firm Serious About Security?
As I wrote in a previous column, whether it’s securing a perimeter in a war zone or an accounting firm, the strength of the defense is only as robust as the front lines. In your firm, the front line is your people who are handling sensitive client data on
March 20, 2017
Accounting Firms RubinBrown and Stewart Archibald & Barney Merge
This combination will bring together more than 600 team members working from offices in Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Nashville and St. Louis. John F. Herber, Jr., CPA, CGMA, chairman, RubinBrown LLP, and Glenn L. Goodnough, CPA, managing partner, ...
March 19, 2017
Professionals on the Move – March 17, 2017
A roundup of professionals in the tax and accounting profession that have changed jobs and/or been promoted.
March 16, 2017
5 Ways to Improve Workflows in Accounting Firms
The first step to enabling this growth – and the sustainable efficiencies that empower it – is to tackle those inefficient workflows within your firm. By taking the time to streamline these workflows – and achieving a higher level of effectiveness ...
March 16, 2017
Marijuana in the Workplace: What Employers Need to Know
With the proliferation of legalized marijuana among the states, the wide-spread use among employees that these state laws encourage, and changing positions from enforcement agencies, now is a good time for employers to review their drug testing ...
March 15, 2017
3 Ways Accounting Firms Can Embrace Artificial Intelligence
Tools for automated credit modeling already exist to help advisors stay ahead of credit risks in accounts receivable portfolios, according to the Hackett Group. Continued automation of data inputs — from gathering audit evidence to inputting employee expe
March 15, 2017
6 Tips for Email Marketing for Accounting Firms
Would you like to find out how to generate five figures of business every time you send an email to your list of subscribers? It’s entirely possible; I do it all the time and you can too. Email marketing is one of the most overlooked and underutilized ...
March 14, 2017
How to Introduce Efficient, Sustainable Workflows with Accounting Clients
Not even a decade ago, clients would engage an accounting firm, fill out forms and send over documents. It may have felt a bit like a black hole for some companies. While the accounting firm was doing its job, it wasn’t a very collaborative process.
March 14, 2017
Does the CPA Profession Fall Short on Ethics?
More than a decade ago, shortly before news broke of the accounting scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and other industry majors, about 600 CPAs participated in a survey about ethics in a variety of businesses and organizations. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the ...