Practice and client management

It’s busy season again: a time when you can barely breathe as you hurry to complete returns for clients who often wait until the very last minute to submit tax preparation documents.

The International Integrated Reporting Council is asking for comments on how companies are using the framework it issued three years ago for reporting on matters beyond simply a company’s financials.

There are two extremes in working in professional services: The lone wolf who hunkers down alone, and forming teams to accomplish a goal.

Names are a sensitive topic, especially to partners who have earned their name on the letterhead.

The organization behind the Academy Awards is weighing its next move after a partner at accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers handed out the wrong envelope for best picture, triggering the most spectacular blunder ever on Hollywood’s biggest night.

It turns out that the profession has many of the symptoms -- and its holding them back.

The Arizona firm helped supply a year's worth of food to local nonprofit Feed My Starving Children.

Accountants can lead their firms to greater financial success while finding greater personal fulfillment, according to Jason Blumer of Thriveal.

In no department is it more important to set an example than in accounting and finance.

One thing that all successful companies have in common, no matter the industry, is strong leadership, and that’s also true of accounting firms.

The international association adds members is Belgium and France; EisnerAmper wins a PAM Award, Armanino is named Adaptive Insights Partner of the Region; and more news from across the country.

The Association for Accounting Marketing is accepting firms' stories of philanthropy until March 3rd.

Treat the next generation of leadership at your practice as you would a prospective client.

Refreshing a practice’s image often finds accountants considering a new moniker; in this podcast, Aprio managing partner and CEO Richard Kopelman and chief marketing officer Danielle Berg share what led them to an unusual new name for their Top 100 Firm.

Every preparer wants to know what their clients think. The trick is how to find out.

Robert Half Management Resources poll finds that 30% of personnel champion diplomacy in their bosses above all.

My two columns in January on having a firm specialty of being a generalist have generated considerable comments and emails to me.

The Big Four firm has partnered with a group of other organizations on an initiative to bring more varied representation to the leadership of public companies.

The firm's golf tournament has now donated over $7 million since 2010.