Firm Management

January 29, 2016 

Right now, life in the accounting profession is good. Growth trends are on an upswing with accounting market employment up more than 4% over last year and steady revenue growth since 2011. We’ve rebounded from the recession and are starting to gain ...

Jon Baron

January 28, 2016 

Johnsen is a long-time ITA member, a past member of the ITA Board of Directors, and has most recently served as Treasurer of the organization. In addition to her ITA work, Johnsen serves as Employer Solutions Practice Director at Net@Work, a ...

January 28, 2016 

The acquisition expands WeiserMazars’ Entrepreneurial Services and Health Care Consulting services with the addition of Marc H. Lion, founder of Lion & Company, and his team of five professionals.

January 27, 2016 

On a snowy January morning over 130 CPAs stepped aside from their busy schedules to advocate for legislation supporting the CPA profession. The Maryland Association of CPAs engages in ongoing legislative and lobbying efforts, and CPA Day is the best ...

January 26, 2016 

All of us draw conclusions based on perceptions. If clients or prospects perceive that your firm is stuck in the past (practices that were common only four or five years ago look ancient to most of us consumers today), they may question whether your ...

Jon Baron

January 26, 2016 

The firm’s new benefits expand upon its existing initiatives to attract and retain talent. Through the firm’s in-house continuing professional education (CPE) program, Brown Smith Wallace University, performance managers work with each individual ...

January 26, 2016 

CPAsNET.com is a consortium of independent accounting firms that represent more than 100 partners, 300 professional associates and 500 employees. Member firms have pooled their resources to provide their clients with the local, national and ...

January 26, 2016 

The new mobile application allows anyone using ImagineTime time and billing software to record time and expenses, as well as have access to client contact information, while out of the office.

January 25, 2016 

Each state has its own laws that dictate when employees are to be paid and this extends to terminations. While many states allow payment for voluntary termination to occur on the next scheduled pay date, several states have accelerated timelines even for

James Paille

January 22, 2016 

A roundup of professionals in the tax and accounting profession that have changed jobs and/or been promoted.

January 20, 2016 

How many returns can your firm prepare during tax season? Adding staff hours during busy season is problematic for the firm and filing extensions is problematic for customers. In the absence of these two options, what else can you do?

January 20, 2016 

A major benefit for CPAs working in public accounting is the ability to work flextime. What is flextime? While the definitions vary firm to firm, flextime can mean that you work flexible hours, have compressed work weeks or follow seasonal scheduling.