Practice Management

I don’t think I would be going too far out on a limb to say that the vast majority of accountants did not become accountants so they could get into marketing or sales.

Jody Padar of New Vision CPA Group and Jennifer Warawa of Sage North America feel the heat of Death Valley and Furnace Creek as they travel across the Nevada desert on the Sage Listens Tour RV and they liken it to the knowledge that CPAs need to share about practice management.

With the opening of health insurance exchanges and marketplaces this week under the Affordable Care Act, accountants and other professional service providers are being urged to pursue doctor’s offices as clients, especially as the prognosis for their financial health is expected to remain positive.

“Oh what I’d give to get a good night’s sleep.” We’ve heard that before, maybe even said it ourselves, especially during tax season. But tax preparer Joyce Linzy was prepared to spend money to make it happen.

Mr. and Mrs. Friedberg were just another couple of average married taxpayers like any other married taxpayers happily minding their own business until the IRS decided to wage a war of terror on them.

Grant Thornton LLP has achieved an all-time high annual revenue mark for the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International, with $1.274 billion in revenue generated in fiscal year 2013, up 5 percent from the previous year.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is one of the accounting firms hoping to address the needs of companies and individuals who are uncertain about the implications of the new health insurance exchanges and marketplaces that opened this week.

The Internal Revenue Service has temporarily stopped sending out tax refunds, and the Tax Court has suspended operations during the federal government shutdown, as lawmakers in Congress continue their battle over delaying or defunding “Obamacare” for a year.

‘Obamacare’s’ opening day drew millions of consumers to the law’s core insurance exchanges, offering supporters and investors confidence that if the websites can stay up and running, customers will follow.

Armanino managing partner Andy Armanino discusses how a "firm of the future" can leverage deeper relationships with business clients to help them grow and achieve more.