Firm Management

September 10, 2015 

This year’s 40 Under 40 honorees are among the best and brightest talent in the accounting profession. They are all active in the professional community, as well as in their local communities, where many are small business owners and employers.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

September 10, 2015 

If you’re like many accountants, you’ve noticed the increasing need for interpersonal abilities in your job. As you collaborate more frequently across the business, you must focus on building solid relationships with non-finance colleagues.

September 10, 2015 

The survey found that, despite the nearly universal feeling among college students about the importance of personal financial management skills – 99 percent said they were either extremely or very important –they are not actively taking steps to ...

September 10, 2015 

While the benefits of greater staff autonomy typically outweigh the potential disadvantages, managers need to adjust their strategies to make things work when team members are offsite. Here are some do’s and don’ts of managing remote workers.

Paul McDonald

September 10, 2015 

As the number of companies offering workplace flexibility and remote work arrangements continues to grow, the likelihood that your firm will get the request to work outside the office (or already has) is quite high. Ensuring that you’re prepared for ...

Jim Boomer

September 8, 2015 

Among the five fields tracked, the technology sector is projected to see the greatest pay gains, with base salaries rising an average of 5.3 percent. Accounting and finance roles followed, with anticipated average compensation increases of 4.7 percent.

September 8, 2015 

Have profit margins, as measured by equity partner profits as a percent of revenue, been declining at firms over the last 10 years or so?

September 8, 2015 

Private sector small business employment increased by 85,000 jobs from July to August according to the August ADP Small Business Report. Due to the important contribution that small businesses make to economic growth, employment data that are ...

September 8, 2015 

Only 48 percent of respondents expressed optimism about the U.S. economy over the next 12 months, down from 52 percent last quarter and well below the first quarter mark of 68 percent. The impact of a global economic slowdown and domestic regulatory ...

September 7, 2015 

President Barack Obama used Labor Day as the backdrop to sign an executive order that will require federal contractors to offer paid sick leave to its employees. This includes more than 300,000 employees who do not currently receive sick leave.

September 4, 2015 

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

September 2, 2015 

To compete, high growth accounting firms are spending more on average for in-house marketing staff, but their marketing budgets aren’t much higher than the budgets of low-growth firms. That’s because they are spending their marketing dollars ...