February 7, 2014
2014 Readers Choice Awards
The role that technology plays in our everyday lives has increased dramatically over the last decade, and this publication and our Readers Choice Awards have chronicled many of these changes.
February 6, 2014
Paychex Offers Tax Season Tools for Accountants
With tax season in full swing, payroll and human resources provider Paychex, Inc. is highlighting resources to help accounting professionals stay on top of critical payroll, tax, and HR issues that could impact their small business clients.
February 4, 2014
Service is Good for Business: Successful Accounting Firms Support Staff
Elise Saur is a self-described Type A personality who typically takes few breaks during the workday. So among the biggest adjustments she made during a seven-week fellowship in Brazil last fall were leaving the office to eat lunch with colleagues and joining them again at 4 p.m. for a daily snack.
February 4, 2014
Accounting Firm Makes Room for Chickens
When North Carolina accountant Laura Harper was a little girl, her parents wouldn't let her have a pet. At age 50, however, she has three cats, two goats and 20 chickens on her three-quarters of an acre lot that she also shares with her boyfriend and two of her three children.
February 4, 2014
Bloomberg BNA Enhances Data Security Resource Center
High-value analytical features help practitioners navigate U.S. and global privacy and security law
February 3, 2014
CBIZ Acquires Non-Attest Business of Tampa Accounting Firm
Accounting and business process outsourcing firm CBIZ has announced that it acquired the non-attest business of Tampa, Florida-based Lewis, Birch & Ricardo, L.L.C., effective February 1, 2014. The firm's attest business is being acquired by Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. CBIZ Inc. and Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. said they will operate using an alternative practice structure.
February 2, 2014
Financial Accounting Foundation Names CPA As Chair of Advisory Council
The Financial Accounting Foundation has announced that Steven E. Buller, CPA, managing director and former chief financial officer of BlackRock, Inc., has been appointed chairman of the group's Advisory Council (FASAC). His term begins on February 1, 2014, and concludes on December 31, 2015.
February 1, 2014
Kansas City Sees Job Gains in 2013
The number of Kansas City area payroll jobs slipped slightly in December from November, but 2013 ended with about 7,000 more jobs in the metro area than in December 2012.
January 31, 2014
3 Tips for Handling Interruptions at Work
The privilege of teaching leadership skills to firm leaders allows me the opportunity to identify various issues that are frustrating and sometimes difficult to negotiate. One of the issues that have risen to the top of the list recently is the age old issue of “Interruptions.”
January 30, 2014
Porte Brown Accounting and Consulting Acquires Chicago Firm
Porte Brown LLC, www.PorteBrown.com, a Chicagoland accounting firm, is pleased to announce the acquisition of LHW & Associates based in Crystal Lake, Illinois. LHW offers specialized services for clients in industries such as mortgage banking, construction, manufacturing, real estate, medical, professional services and various consumer markets.
January 30, 2014
Accounting Firm Celebrates 90th Anniversary
Plante Moran, one of the nation’s largest certified public accounting and business advisory firms, is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2014.
January 29, 2014
Report: Union Membership Numbers Stay Level
The annual government tally of union membership found little change in the percentage or number of American workers who hold union cards.