Accounting Today May 2017

Top firms carefully analyze their profitability. productivity, client satisfaction and more.

Accounting firms need to start building detailed succession plans to fill potential staffing gaps at all levels.

Steve Ballmer’s new USAFacts offers a model for accountants to serve clients more deeply.

The annual life cycle for accountants traditionally ends and begins with April 15 (or whatever the actual due date is). The early months of the year are involved or consumed with tax season. After tax season ends, normality begins.

Observers are starting to move their predictions for change back to 2018.

Audit clients stand to benefit more than they know from new developments in the field.

Now that the political battles of the 1990s are past, FASB should be able to correct these deficient practices.

Picking the PFP model that fits a firm best requires some self-knowledge.

Three users share their experiences with different DMSes.

Indirect tax compliance software vendors weigh in on the changes that are coming in the field, here and abroad.

Worthwhile partner gatherings require accountability, organization and discipline.

Firms need to start making the most of those who make them the most.

Wealth advisor and CPA David Isaacs defends his misunderstood peers.