Ed Mendlowitz

Not too many firms conduct such meetings, whose purpose is to update all team members on how the firm is doing.

These are books I learned a lot from and wholeheartedly recommend to my colleagues and all business managers and leaders.

I have been in my own practice a long time and figured out early on that if I never lost a client, I would do pretty well.

Learn one new thing that you can use to provide a value-laden benefit to your clients.

Here is a monthly calendar for running your practice and marketing to clients.

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.