Practice and client management

Learn to embrace disorder and uncertainty.

ICPAS honors 75th anniversary of first African-American woman CPA; BKD launches new website; and more news from CPA offices across the country.

Since professional services are intangible, the prospect is most likely probing for assurance to offset their natural skepticism.

While it cannot guarantee any negative publicity will result from an issue, it can help to manage the situation and minimize the reputational damage.

The Top 100 Firm sent four staff members to see firsthand how their monetary donations, via Compassion International, have helped local children.

A colleague mentioned that his partners never want to leave the office for lunch, preferring to eat at their desks.

Transition Advisors' Joel Sinkin dives into the changes in the merger landscape, from dropping multiples and geographic issues, to what it takes to be an attractive candidate for a combination.

The decision legitimizes a voluntary IRS program that allows participants a limited right to represent taxpayers in IRS audits.

While many midsized CPA firms strive to be well-managed, many fall short and revert to the loosely managed style of midsized law firms.

Florida firm Spoor Bunch Franz also helped its local Police Athletic League, and N.J. firm Sax announced its seventh annual '4 Miler' charity run.

The consultancy has introduced a new growth-focused community for accounting firm MPs.

While successful tax professionals find themselves with a surplus of business from January to April, the months of May to December are way too light.

Innovation was the theme at this year’s Boomer Technology Circle Summit -- but in order to get innovating, you’d better get compensating.

Despite gentle nudges, love taps and tactics to shorten the cycle time, the process is slow and the lag time is painful.

For my lunch with Jody Padar, I put together a list of the most important issues in running a CPA practice.

Insights allows finance managers to monitor and review team spend without manual intervention.

New methods of allocation value in the firm may help overcome hurdles in expanding a partnership.

From a CPA’s perspective, the thing your clients value most is not a spreadsheet, financial statement or tax return; it’s the clarity you give them that helps them make better financial decisions.

High-growth firms consistently have long-term “game changer events” planned in the future, with action plans that have strategic executive accountability.

The Big Four firm netted almost three times as many new engagements as any other auditor.