Practice and client management

Understanding the differences and setting expectations properly can make or break a successful engagement.

The U.K. arm of the Big Four accountancy firm is merging its consulting and risk divisions, shrinking its offering from five service lines to four.

If your clients been waiting for the merger market to fully reopen, they're not alone — and 2026 may be the year their patience runs out.

Growth consultant Gale Crosley talks about how firms can build truly client-centered approaches to growth that go far beyond cross-selling.

Leaders from the Top 100 Firm name the top challenges to the profession — from private equity and tech, to staffing and change management.

Cybersecurity remains a key concern, according to the Center for Audit Quality and Deloitte's new report on audit committee effectiveness and priorities.

Something big is happening in the American retirement landscape, and small businesses are right in the middle of it.

When they understand their market value, accounting firms are often torn about what to do.

Ideagen Audit Analytics' annual report on the audit landscape shows the market share landscape remaining much the same.

When accounting firm leaders build guardrails, train their people and stay actively engaged, AI will become a force multiplier — not a liability.

The old measurements of leverage, utilization, margin, billing rate, and realization fall short of the new reality.

Leaders at Top 100 Firms have a host of new concerns about staffing, culture and succession.

Accounting firms that are best positioned to capture the growth from advisory services must do more than rethink the services they deliver.

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.