Firm Management August 16, 2026
Four Questions Every Retiring Partner Should Ask Before Signing a Deal
The through-line across all these questions is the same: Does the deal protect what made your firm valuable in the first place?
July 22, 2015
4 Ways Tax Professionals Can Improve Their Tax Season
By utilizing technology for proactive engagement throughout the year, and especially early on the tax season, CPAs can improve client preparation and retention and minimize that last minute scramble in April.
July 22, 2015
How to Retain Your Firm’s IT Superstars
Retention is a huge challenge for CPA firms across the country and most of the focus and discussion is on accounting staff. What isn’t addressed nearly enough is retaining talent in important functional areas such as IT, HR, Marketing and Training.
July 13, 2015
Professionals on the Move – July 13, 2015
A weekly roundup of professionals in the tax and accounting profession that have changed jobs and/or been promoted.
July 11, 2015
Accounting in 2025: Three Undeniable Trends and How They Will Affect Accounting Firms
Omnipresent mobility isn’t about having a smartphone or tablet. It is the ubiquitous expectation that you can do whatever you need to do no matter where you are.
July 10, 2015
Succession Planning: Running Your Firm After Retirement
All good things must come to an end, and the same is true for careers – even for those in payroll. Though it may be hard to picture the end of your career, or your employees’, it will eventually come. As a payroll practitioner, this is something you ...
July 9, 2015
Four Growth Benchmarks Every Accounting Firm Managing Partner Should Use
Now that busy season for many accounting firms is drawing to a close, more attention turns to expanding business and developing new business. While every firm has a different way of tracking growth and revenue, BKR International reminds firms of four grow
July 9, 2015
Prep Your Firm’s Marketing Plan Now for New Clients in the Fall
Prep your marketing plan for all fall leads.
July 8, 2015
Accounting Software Choices for Accounting Firms and Their Clients
Accounting software choices have never been more numerous, full-featured and capable than the products offered today. Some of you are brand new to the accounting space and some of you grew up purchasing mini-computers to run software you had to write ...
July 8, 2015
American University Helps Prepare Graduate Accounting Students for ACCA Accreditation
Starting this fall, students pursuing a Masters of Science in Accounting at American University’s Kogod School of Business will be able to complete coursework that will qualify them for six exemptions from ACCA’s 14 exams.
July 7, 2015
Should Accounting Firm Billings Originated by Managers Reduce Their Buy-in?
Perhaps the biggest concern is: Do you want to let this issue drive a wedge between the firm and the partner candidate?
July 7, 2015
CPAs Weigh in on the Future of Peer Review
The Institute wants to build a system that would be programmed to provide a continuous analytical evaluation of a firm’s engagement performance that would require human review when the system identified concerns. It would review all firms that perform ...
July 7, 2015
Intuit Launches Contest to Find the Accounting Firms of the Future
The program offers up to 20 accounting firms across the U.S. the chance to win a one-week vacation in Hawaii, an expenses-paid trip to Intuit’s annual QuickBooks Connect conference in San Jose, Calif., or a technology prize pack valued at $2,500.