Practice and client management

The consulting arms of U.S. accounting firms grew by 10.2 percent to $21.5 billion in 2016, compared to growth of 7.1 percent to $58.7 billion in in the overall consulting market, according to a new report.

There are two types of accountants—those who do their work with blinders and those with wide-open eyes. Both can do competent jobs for their clients, but the ones with the wide-open eyes grow and can do far better work for their clients.

If firms aren’t proactive, it’s all too easy to drive away clients and lose business (text version).

Twenty-five recipients will receive financial aid to go towards CPA Exam preparation.

If firms aren’t proactive, it’s all too easy to drive away clients and lose business.

Accountants should start building programs to make the most of the 80/20 rule

Your firm was knocking the cover off the ball pre-financial crisis (circa 2007 and 2008) with a strategy of getting bigger with quality growth, stronger with quality talent, and more profitable, but it is increasingly obvious that it has become difficult competing in today’s mid-market space.

Summer plans; evaluating clients; succession planning; e-wills; other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Top 100 firm will take part in Junior Achievement's 'JA in a Day' program for an eighth straight year.

This program will be a wild ride on everything you need to consider.

As clients age, accountants and advisors need to be ready to help them and their families handle the issues surrounding their eventual decline. U.S. Wealth Management’s John Napolitano discusses how, and why it’s more important than ever.

When CPA firm leaders are in discussions to merge with another firm, the conversation at some point turns to the importance of staff retention and engagement over the short and long term.

How a firm gets its first dollar will be very different from how it gets its first million.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has overhauled its board structure, adding a nine-member SASB Standards Board, overseen by the SASB Foundation board of directors.

The patent-pending, cloud-based GRC platform manages five major business governance activities.

A group of CPAs talked about the changes they are seeing in today's firms.

Art Kuesel presents eight, post-busy season questions to help deepen firm relationships with patrons.

I think branding is very important. Everyone and every business has a brand. Inattention to branding creates a brand that might not be what you would like, but nevertheless you will have a brand. Branding needs deliberate attention.

Of all the obstacles to success in accounting, accountants' own fears may be one of the most important. Consultant Phil Whitman discusses the many ways the profession gets in its own way -- and how to overcome them.

The Internal Revenue Service is planning June 18 as the tentative date for moving its e-Services platform to what it promises will be more secure and modern technology.