Holiday notes can be reassuring to staff and clients, foster transparency, and express and share hope and optimism.

As this unusual year comes to an end, many firms will be divvying up profits and assigning new partner salary or draw amounts for 2021. That could lead to conflict.

Workload compression is a ubiquitous drain on our energies. It appears that staff tax season hours still increase every year.

Writing a weekly column forces me to always be looking for ideas and has made me much more observant of what goes on in the public accounting profession as a whole and also within firms of all sizes.

Accountants are not known as writers; however, most of what we do is written.

What exactly are bots and Botkeeper, and why is this of any interest to accountants?

Clients think about their businesses much more than accountants do about them.

Last week I spent parts of two days at the Accounting & Finance Show USA and, from what I could tell, it was very well attended and organized and the virtual meetings were held without any hitches.

Art of Accounting: KPIs for accounting firm owners

Every accounting firm website shows a full range of services, all with great descriptions. But who is actually driving those services?