Firm Management

January 10, 2012 

800-968-8900 cs.thomsonreuters.com/engagement    5.0 overall BEST FIT Small to medium sized accounting firms with a focus on audit engagements, especially those currently relying on PPC Practice Aids for guidance. STRENGTHS Strong integration with PPC Practice Aids and other Thomson Reuters products Ability to manage engagement without network connectivity Available as a fully hosted solution POTENTIAL...…

January 7, 2012 

Combined, the firms will rank in top 15 firms in U.S with more than 41 offices, 2,300 staff, 70,000 clients and annual revenues over $314 million.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

November 22, 2011 

6 Effective Tools for Tax Document Automation

Dustin Wheeler

November 22, 2011 

Tax and accounting professionals who start their own firms from scratch face benefits and significant challenges. On the pro side, they have the opportunity to build the firm as they wish, from internal practices to staffing and management styles. Of course, there can be significant startup costs, and the firm starts with a client roster…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

November 18, 2011 

While we all cherish the most trusted advisor status that accountants have earned, this status must be continually re-earned with clients. Ask yourself whether your clients want you to serve them or lead them to better success. I believe your clients desperately want you to lead them — and if you don’t, they may turn...…

Doug Sleeter

November 4, 2011 

How a Tech-Savvy Accountant Waited for Technology to Catch Up to Her Vision. Some of the greatest ideas are imagined years before they can be accomplished. In 2002, a young professional accountant had the idea of providing virtual accounting services to clients.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

October 10, 2011 

How optimism and remote technologies paved the way to one firm's success. The accounting profession has often been stereotyped as curmudgeonly, grumpy, stodgy, and fiscally dour, and, well … there were probably good reasons for those descriptions at one time.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

September 1, 2011 

Accountants and accounting firms have long suffered from the false stereotype of being stodgy, even predictable and boring. Even more so, the auditor: that truly numbers-focused researcher of data whose sole purpose is to determine the propriety of an organization’s financial reporting and their internal controls over financial reporting. Perhaps only actuaries are more maligned…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

August 4, 2011 

A Productivity in Practice Feature. A small business is most productive when its owners are doing what they love. Whether a mechanic, baker, landscaper, restaurateur, childcare provider or a merchant, small business owners usually like what they do.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

August 2, 2011 

A standard consulting practice rule is that switching software is expensive. Disruptions to procedures occur, retraining is required, and without careful analysis you may force your organization into a product that has less capability or is more difficult to use. We expect clients to switch software as frequently as they switch physicians or religions. The...…

Randy Johnston

June 24, 2011 

Sometimes, things need mixing up. Chris Farmand, who grew up in a Florida family centered around the accounting practice led by his father and two uncles, was destined for a career in accounting. His parents knew it, the rest of his family knew it, and his teachers knew it. But even though he’d been in...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

June 24, 2011 

  This is our first annual review of tax document automation tools. While we have presented feature articles on this topic in the past, this category is rapidly maturing to include some common feature sets. Internal estimates from vendors based on data provided to CPA Practice Advisor suggest that around 1% of all individual income...…

Brian Tankersley