Firm Management July 10, 2026
Avoid Assumptions: Use Career Conversations to Guide Your Firm’s Succession Planning
A succession plan built on assumptions is likely to fall short of expectations when it matters most.
August 10, 2015
How to Handle Tough Talks With Employees
No manager can escape it. Sooner or later you're going to have to summon an employee into your office to address a performance problem or to have some other unpleasant conversation.
August 10, 2015
Intuit Wants to Be Your Perfect Partner with New ProAdvisor Programs
Financial software provider, Intuit, wants to be a good partner to the thousands of ProAdvisors worldwide.
August 9, 2015
AICPA Presents Outstanding Young CPA Award to Utah Accountant
The Outstanding Young CPA Award recognizes a young CPA who personifies an unwavering commitment as demonstrated through successful practices, involvement in and contributions for the interest of the accounting profession.
August 9, 2015
Wisconsin Accounting Grad Student Wins AICPA Inspiration Award
The award, sponsored by the AICPA, is bestowed upon a student who has experienced extreme hardships in his or her life and who has demonstrated an unusually high level of success despite that adversity. The award includes a $5,000 cash stipend.
August 4, 2015
7 Conversations That Keep Staff Engaged and Productive
At its core, business is simply a network of interconnected conversations. And the health of a company can often be gauged by watching the interactions between employees and their leaders.
August 4, 2015
“The Data-Enabled CEO”- 5 Steps to Turn Data Insights into Competitive Business Advantages
Today’s CEOs face a host of complex business challenges, including how to harness disparate streams of data to generate pragmatic insights and deliver increased profitability. The difficulty CEOs face is not in obtaining the data, but in determining ...
August 4, 2015
What Makes a Great Accounting Firm Leader?
The common thread to the three leaders below is this: Many people love the phrase, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” These leaders would say, “If it doesn’t need fixing, break it.” This means that great organizations continuously reinvent themselves ...
August 4, 2015
Florida Accounting Firms Merge
Cocuy, Burns & Co., P.A., a CPA and consulting firm in Wellington, Fla. and Templeton & Company, LLP, a leading South Florida-based firm, combined practices effective August 1, 2015. Juan Cocuy and Tom Burns became partners in the newly combined firm...
August 1, 2015
Reducing Staff Turnover: How to Recognize and Respond to Retention Red Flags
Accounting and finance professionals with in-demand skills are finding they have many options when it comes to job offers. This is great news for candidates. However, as a manager, you recognize a rosier hiring environment means you have to work harder...
July 29, 2015
Tips for Choosing a PR Firm
That outcome-oriented approach is helping fuel a growing trend of pay-for-performance public relations firms that bill only for services successfully rendered, unlike the traditional model in which agencies charge a monthly retainer or hourly fees.
July 29, 2015
Sage Partners with eFileCabinet for Streamlined Document Management
The partnership will enable users of Sage Impact cloud-based platform to sign up for and use the eFileCabinet cloud document management solution from within the Sage Impact dashboard.
July 29, 2015
Are You a Bad Boss? 10 Signs That You Might Be
A Gallup survey from last year found that only one in 10 bosses in America has any native talent for management, and only another two in ten could be good managers with a little training and support. That leaves the overwhelming majority of bosses ...