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Ask any accountant in the country about “client service,” and you’ll be hard pressed to find one who does not consider it to be important.

Ernst & Young has formed a strategic alliance with the SAS Institute to provide data analytics technology to clients.

Open enrollment is the annual time period where employees enroll in a health insurance policy that they feel best fits their needs for the following year.

I met someone last week and asked how she was doing with her accountant. She said everything was fine, but reduced the three interim quarterly visits to once every four months.

Deloitte is advising corporate clients to be careful about their holiday gift giving so they don’t run afoul of laws like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

My last column addressed the importance of controls when trying to get a client. But it is also important to retain the client. A good system that is not monitored is a sure way to not only lose the client, but be kept awake at night.

In my early days I would get many leads for clients who told me they were switching accountants because they believed they were paying “too much tax.”

Rootworks CEO Darren Root describes how firms should develop more of an entrepreneurial mindset, in an interview with Accounting Today managing editor Danielle Lee.

Working out how to set fees and using value pricing or value billing can sometimes be daunting.

Every year, accountants and tax professionals brace themselves for the inevitable tax season.