Practice Management

The consulting arms of U.S. accounting firms grew by 10.2 percent to $21.5 billion in 2016, compared to growth of 7.1 percent to $58.7 billion in in the overall consulting market, according to a new report.

There are two types of accountants—those who do their work with blinders and those with wide-open eyes. Both can do competent jobs for their clients, but the ones with the wide-open eyes grow and can do far better work for their clients.

If firms aren’t proactive, it’s all too easy to drive away clients and lose business (text version).

Twenty-five recipients will receive financial aid to go towards CPA Exam preparation.

MACPA partners with IBM to equip CPAs with tech skills; BlumShapiro volunteers teach students financial literacy; and more news from CPA offices.

If firms aren’t proactive, it’s all too easy to drive away clients and lose business.

Grant Thornton International taps CEO-elect; Mazars USA and Marks Paneth add partners; and other personnel news from firms across the country.

Accountants should start building programs to make the most of the 80/20 rule

The new dashboard in QuickBooks Online Accountant is mobile-enabled, and is scalable for practices of any size.

Your firm was knocking the cover off the ball pre-financial crisis (circa 2007 and 2008) with a strategy of getting bigger with quality growth, stronger with quality talent, and more profitable, but it is increasingly obvious that it has become difficult competing in today’s mid-market space.