Art of Accounting: 12-month practice management and growth calendar

The analysis identifies the strengths and weaknesses of an organization and the opportunities and threats from its external environment.

These 10 principles have been constant since I started my career, and probably for many years before then.

Some accountants discourage timesheet usage and blame them for everything wrong about public accounting today, but this is a bit of a stretch.

The type of work and how it is done certainly have changed, but not the expectations for performance and how it’s evaluated.

How things look is important and can create interest, excitement, buy-in or acceptance.

Staff need to develop and grow if firms are going to develop and grow.

Employees who work outside regular hours on their own business can bring valuable experience to a firm.

Clients who demand a lot of time with constant calls about proposed transactions may need a special way to handle the billing for them.

Many of our clients pay us for the deliverables they must have, but they retain us because of the unspecified extras we give to them.