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If a CPA firm has a partner performance management and compensation plan (and many don’t), rarely is it used as a means of driving strategy and running the firm.

After every tax season, it’s tempting to do some spring cleaning, which often includes a massive dump of recently filed tax data.

With so many firms undergoing mergers and acquisitions as part of their overall growth strategy, knowing how to handle these brand transitions smoothly is a critical component of a firm’s long-term viability.

Every time Tom Hood, who is executive director and CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs, gives a speech (and he gives a lot of speeches), he asks his audiences of accountants about the top challenges they face.

Asian-Americans and the EITC; trusting the IRS; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

A recent ruling by the Tax Court might help soften the blow to employers confronted with income tax liability for workers that have been reclassified as employees.

A recent Tax Court opinion favored a Los Angeles County tax assessor’s valuation of rental property improvements over the property owner’s own appraisal.

Most three-year people with a Big Four firm are disgusted with public accounting because of the way they have been treated with overly long hours, repetitive work on large clients in esoteric areas, narrow industry exposure, and being pigeon-holed in a single technical area.

Art Kuesel on how communication and trust will make a professional indispensable to a client.

U.S. exporters have been claiming the DISC or IC-DISC tax break for more than 45 years. Despite these facts, some enterprises fail to take advantage of the federal government’s tax giveaways for Interest Charge Domestic International Sales Corporations. Here are 10 winning IC-DISC strategies an exporter can use.