Firm Management

January 28, 2014 

In the wake of the recent identity theft of some 40 million accounts from retail merchant Target, and the potential for massive theft from the health care exchanges set up under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), consumers are again left bewildered -- and looking for someone to take the lead in crafting…

Dave McClure

January 28, 2014 

It was the best of payroll processing times, it was the worst...well, you get the idea. Payroll used to be complex and tedious work, so much that many accounting firms stopped offering the service.

January 27, 2014 

Anyone who has been hired into the controller position for the first time may feel overwhelmed, since the job description involves an enormous range of responsibilities.

Bethany O'Hoyt

January 27, 2014 

Applications for the AICPA's Accounting Scholars Leadership Workshop are now being accepted. Now in their 20th year, the Workshops are an annual invitational program for minority accounting students who plan to pursue the CPA designation.

January 24, 2014 

Accounting thought leader Amy Vetter has joined accounting software vendor Xero as the company's global vice president of education. In the newly-created role, she will lead worldwide training and development for Xero, and will report to the company's chief revenue officer, Stuart McLean.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

January 24, 2014 

It is popular among my learned accounting colleagues to portray the elders of the profession who have not signed on to the concept of a Social Media Strategy as some kinds of latter day Luddites.

Dave McClure

January 24, 2014 

Business management firm Kaufman + Bernstein, Inc. has merged with RBZ, LLP, one of the largest Los Angeles-based accounting and business management firms, adding 19 new members to RBZ’s business management practice.

January 23, 2014 

Small businesses are hiring, and employment at smaller firms grew in Illinois and Indiana last month.

January 22, 2014 

U.S. private-sector franchise jobs increased by 30,250 during the month of December 2013, according to the ADP National Franchise Report. BThe report measures monthly changes in franchise employment derived from ADP’s actual transactional payroll data.

January 21, 2014 

The leaders of Ashland, Kentucky's two largest CPA firms have announced they will join forces this summer.

January 21, 2014 

You probably know that non-exempt employees are covered under FLSA, which imposes requirements for overtime and other aspects of employment. Exempt employees, on the other hand, are not subject to FLSA.

James Paille

January 21, 2014 

W. Michael Hsu of DeepSky talks about the old way entrepreneurs typically dealt with the issue of building an accounting department and then offers the new (and better) way of choosing to outsource it in Part 2 - Entrepreneur & (the Outsourced) Accounting Department