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.

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Employers owed the Internal Revenue Service approximately $14.1 billion in delinquent Social Security, Medicare and individual federal income taxes that they had withheld from employee paychecks as of June 30, 2012, and the Internal Revenue Service is being urged to do more to assess penalties against them.

Payroll giant ADP has put together a new infographic comparing in-house versus outsourced services for handling payroll taxes.

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.

Paychex has a list of the top 10 regulatory issues facing small businesses this year.

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.

AccountantsWorld president Jeff Gramlich discusses pricing pressures, competition for talent, commoditization, cloud technology and other challenges confronting accountants over the next five years, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

If you have been reading these Art of Accounting articles, you probably know some of my early work history, but I will reiterate it here and complete it.

Senior financial executives are becoming more involved in the oversight of human resource functions, at least up in Canada, that is.

Consulting may be an attractive career move for CFOs who may not be ready to stop working when they retire, according to a new poll.

Making partner at a Big Four accounting firm in the United Kingdom is no longer a privilege enjoyed only by those born in wealthy families, according to a new academic study.

I was lucky to get my second job in accounting, but I received a salary that was $5 lower than my first job (which I had been fired from), so I took the job.