Practice and client management

Jen Leary, CEO of Top 15 Firm CLA, looks at the challenges and opportunities surrounding the accounting profession, and how her firm is navigating them.

Firm leaders are keeping an eye on an interrelated ecosystem of challenges and changes.

Micro-captive insurance plans under the Internal Revenue Code are providing small businesses in California the ability to rebuild faster after wildfires.

As new players flood into accounting, it's important to understand how they speak.

RSM's latest economic research has given it a new understanding of one of its biggest client categories.

The tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee unanimously approved five bipartisan tax-related bills last week aimed at helping natural disaster victims, sexual assault survivors, pre-school teachers, taxpayers in general, and tax fraud whistleblowers.

Staff in the Big Four firm's U.S. tax business will be required to work on the premises or at a client site 12 days a month from July 1.

Let me guess what's on your firm's website right now:

March Madness; one ringy-dingy; trouble with tariffs; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Staffing, career paths and a practical playbook can be applied to the new model.

Accounting firms that treat marketing and business development as administrative support will struggle to adapt in the future.

"Intentionality" and its derivatives are having a moment right now — but what do they really mean inside accounting firms?

The advisory gap isn't about services. It's about understanding how business owners actually think.

Firm leaders need to answer four key questions when considering a transaction or remaining independent.

The IRS has been examining only a tiny fraction of tax filings from large partnerships due to staffing shortages and other resource constraints.

A majority of accounting firms say they are changing their messaging around pricing as clients increasingly question their cost models in the age of AI efficiencies.

For many firms, a technology that was meant to make things better may instead prove to be yet another tax season headache.

Accounting and IT departments have long been working in silos, which often leads to numerous operational challenges. Accountants taking on the role of tech advisors can bridge this gap.

The average growth rate for accounting and financial services firms has fallen from an all-time high of 13% to less than 10% today, the lowest in five years.

Paul Griggs, CEO of PwC, said they plan to adjust billing model to factor in AI, potentially without even a human professional in the loop, and added that if any humans have a problem with it they have no place in this firm.