Practice and client management

A healthy succession plan achieves three main objectives: continuity through client retention, client growth and fair financial treatment of all parties.

While every company is different, there are 12 operational areas distressed businesses often miss, which can foretell a deteriorating financial condition.

With a wealth of ways to move forward and build their practices, accounting firms need to figure out which to take, and which to pass up.

Senior leaders from Accounting Today's Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders share the areas where they see the most potential for the profession.

A recent podcast included a discussion of time sheets, practice management and the future of the profession.

Cherry Bekaert Foundation partners with Junior Achievement USA to provide $100K in grant donations; Maner Costerisan promotes 11; and more news from across the profession.

Advisors must be attuned to the emotional factors at play, since no two clients have the same relationship with money.

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, also known as COSO, is working with the National Association of Corporate Directors on developing a corporate governance framework.

Watch the explosion in the number of CPA firms bringing in over $1 billion in revenue that has occurred in the 21st century.

As accountants, we don't get credit for having correct punctuation and spelling, but missing those things makes you look careless and not focused on the details.