Ed Mendlowitz

Treat all your clients with the same respect.

Public accounting is a family friendly profession that allows staff to have a sensible work/life balance.

Many colleagues I talk to have as many or even more ideas than my partners and I had, but they are afraid of not succeeding with them, so they do not try.

Look for ideas, and looking is what yields the results.

I never had legacy staff but did have some legacy clients. This refers to staff and clients that I couldn’t fire or drop.

Ed Mendlowitz shares why he became an 'expert generalist.'

A colleague mentioned that his partners never want to leave the office for lunch, preferring to eat at their desks.

For my lunch with Jody Padar, I put together a list of the most important issues in running a CPA practice.

Last week I had the pleasure of taking four interns from my office on a “field trip” to Manhattan. I also included a senior accountant who started here as an intern.

I don’t think that more than a quarter of the people who ever worked for me assumed “ownership” on what they worked on. The rest did their jobs well, delivered to us what we wanted, but we always needed to put that finishing touch on it.