Practice Management

  • Faced with the confluence of a still uncertain economy, ongoing fee and margin pressures, torrid competition for clients, and new business and the continual challenge to sustain growth, running some of the nation's top accounting firms has undoubtedly caused a number of sleepless nights for more than one managing partner.

    December 1
  • December represents one last chance to consider certain year-end tax strategies before the door closes on the amount of income, deductions and credits set for the year. Many traditional eleventh-hour techniques are applicable to this year-end 2011, with certain twists that recognize changes on the horizon for 2013. This column examines a handful of considerations especially useful to the individual taxpayer in these final weeks of 2011.

    December 1
  • M&A

    ARIZONA

    December 1
  • Accounting firms typically have multiple partners, some of whom may want to retire or move on in the near future, and others who want to stay longer.

    December 1
  • M&A

    'TIS THE SEASON FOR M&A

    December 1
  • Despite staggering statistics as to the massive scope of fraud in sheer dollar volume and the surprising vulnerability many companies are to white-collar crime, a shocking number of businesses are ill-prepared to prevent it, or are unsure of how to implement an effective prevention program.

    December 1
  • STATE TAX REVENUES CLIMB, LOCAL TAX MONEY SLIDES

    December 1
  • Treating a worker as an independent contractor rather than an employee has its advantages, say tax experts.

    December 1
  • December represents one last chance to consider certain year-end tax strategies before the door closes on the amount of income, deductions and credits set for the year. Many traditional eleventh-hour techniques are applicable to this year-end 2011, with certain twists that recognize changes on the horizon for 2013. This column examines a handful of considerations especially useful to the individual taxpayer in these final weeks of 2011.

    December 1