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 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
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 ...
July 28, 2015
Mid-Year Strategic Technology Planning for Accounting Firms
Our annual tech predictions and analyses have been published continuously since 1995, and we’ve been proud both of our abilities in prognostication and the amusement our readers derive from the column.
July 24, 2015
CohnReznick Receives AWSCPA’s 2015 Innovation in Women’s Programming Award
This award recognizes CohnReznick for its efforts to continually develop new and innovative programs to promote and support women in the accounting profession, as exemplified by WomenCAN: A Collaborative Advocacy Network for Women and the Executive ...
July 24, 2015
Grant Thornton launches Latin America Business Group
The group will be made up of specialized subject matter resources from Latin America, current and former U.S. secondees to Latin America and others who have extensive experience with clients operating in Latin America. These individuals will have ...
July 23, 2015
Rootworks Announces Launch of Member-Centric Online Platform Rootworks Grow
Rootworks Grow was officially launched in July 2015. Rootworks is a professional membership-based organization dedicated to helping entrepreneurial accounting leaders create Next Generation Accounting Firms so they can “live the lives they want to live.”
July 23, 2015
Small Business Owners Rank Their Favorite Tech Tools
Small business owners, entrepreneurs and startup founders are increasingly using technology to be more efficient, cut costs and increase productivity. The tools available today make it relatively easy for them to save and share documents, manage customer