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What do you think when you hear the word "coach?"

Partners are the culture in a professional service firm -- what they believe, what they reward, what they do, and how they do it determines what and how things get done.

Boy, did President Obama create a furor in a Roanoke, Va., speech in July, where he said, "If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

Denver-based Top 100 firm Hein & Associates didn't want to be anyone's secret -- even a good one, as managing partner Brian Mandell-Rice had become accustomed to hearing from clients.

A roundup of news from the previous month

Recent tax news

Proponents of states' ability to require remote vendors to collect and hand over sales tax are positioning themselves for hoped-for legislative action before the end of the year.

Recent news in accounting technology

Top Sage North America partner Net@Work has formed a new program geared toward accounting firms, Sage value-added resellers and other professional service firms looking to partner with the company, share resources and possibly align for a future merger or acquisition, if applicable.

Most people think of accounting as a solitary profession, but those in practice know just how off-center this perception really is.

News and updates from the world of accounting resellers

As we acknowledge the 10th anniversary of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, we are once again in a period of re-examination of the role, relevance and reliability of financial audits in protecting investors and the public interest. This seems to be, in part, a reaction to the financial crisis of the past few years.

Highlights of the previous month in audit and attest

First round of Dodd-Frank-mandated inspections suggests deficiences may be widespread

California’s State Board of Equalization is warning that beginning Sept. 15, a new law will take effect expanding the types of out-of-state retailers who are required to register with the board and requires them to begin collecting and remitting use tax on sales of tangible personal property to California consumers.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told an enthusiastic Republican National Convention that unlike his rival Barack Obama, he would not raise taxes on small businesses or the middle class.

Payroll service provider SurePayroll reported Friday that optimism among small business owners declined slightly in August, with 60 percent of the small business owners it surveyed feeling optimistic about the economy, compared to 62 percent last month, with both hiring and average paycheck size declining as well.

Staff members at privately held companies are less likely to receive information from management about how the business is performing than employees at publicly traded companies, according to a new survey.

In my travels around the country, I hear many firms talk about being a “one-firm” firm.

Joe Adams, the head of Top 5 firm McGladrey, on the major challenges facing accounting firms, and how his firm is dealing with them.