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U.S. small business employment grew for the fourth consecutive month in June, adding 20,000 jobs, according to Intuit.

One of the keys to success for companies is choosing the right person for the job. Selecting the right people greatly improves your chances for success—whether you are building a CPA practice, staffing a client team or climbing Mt. Everest.

Private sector employment increased by 281,000 jobs in June, showing signs of a strengthening economy, according to payroll giant ADP’s monthly national employment report.

Payroll service provider Paychex is seeing signs of improvement in employment at small businesses in the first six months of 2014, although it has also found a slight drop-off in the past two months.

The gender scale of the workforce that makes up the accounting profession has officially tipped in favor of women, with more than half of all accountants being women (53 percent). What has not yet tipped in women’s favor are the statistics around women holding leadership positions.

A client decided that to grow her business she needed a top-tier sales manager and recruited someone from a much larger competitor.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has created a new video for YouTube featuring five women on the firm’s U.S. Leadership Team.

Last week, my team was able to achieve the highest of highs and lowest of lows. We celebrated in acquiring a new client that we sought to work with for the past two years. And we booed (or sighed in despair) when a colleague advised the firm that he would be transferring to a company in a different city. We hooted and hollered when the U.S. scored a goal to go up 2-1 on Portugal and we cried (literally for some of us) when Portugal scored in the last 30 seconds to tie the game.

In American corporate culture today, you can expect that many employees in any field hope to become part of upper management one day.

I recently attended a mixer for bankers, attorneys and CPAs in my area and I ran into a manager from a competing CPA firm.

Developing accountability in your staff is simple, consultant John Spence told a gathering of accountants here -- but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

Through the years there have always been subtle changes for managing partners and CEOs, and their reporting partners and managers, in the functions and activities of managing the firm or company.

Employers added 179,000 jobs in the private sector in May, according to payroll giant ADP, although the pace of job growth slowed somewhat from April.

College graduates are entering the workforce this month and are finding opportunities in some sectors, particularly finance and accounting.

The effects of the Affordable Care Act may be weighing less heavily on the hiring plans of U.S. privately held companies this year, according to a survey of accountants who work with small businesses.

Planning is a trait of most accountants including me. Maybe that is one reason we become accountants. I always seemed to write out plans—for myself, partners, staff and sometimes personal activities.

Keeping your staff happy and feeling appreciated is one of the primary challenges facing accounting managers today.

A task force at the American Institute of CPAs is urging CPAs to embrace new ways of learning and professional development to compete better in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.

American Institute of CPAs president and CEO Barry Melancon discussed the need for greater diversity at CPA firms as efforts at greater inclusion seem to be running into some headwinds.

Adaptive Professional Solutions has debuted an online marketplace for temporary accounting and finance staffing.