Practice and client management

The Big Four firm plans to stop offering some types of services to SEC-registered audit clients, and to cut the compensation of top leaders if the firm's audits fall short on quality.

A March acquisition continued to yield dividends for the Cleveland-based Top 50 Firm; Deloitte and CohnReznick also saw big gains.

Following a top-to-bottom review of enforcement efforts, the agency is shifting more attention from working-class taxpayers to high-income earners, partnerships, large corporations and promoters of abusive tax shelters.

Pav Gill is setting up Confide, catering to companies that want to boost their corporate governance.

The Other 96 are surpassing the growth of the Big Four in revenues per employee.

Herbein + Co. raises money with leadership dunk tank and cornhole tournament; ConvergenceCoaching graduates its Transformational Leadership class; and more news from across the profession.

Experts share their advice on the best ways to launch a shift in your practice.

Like the path to enlightenment, the path to advisory services for accounting firms is not always clearly laid out.

You don't have to make wholesale changes all at once. You just need to get 1% better at a time.

Strongly governed firms outperform their peers on a wide variety of metrics.

Three practitioners share their strategies and insights for building a great accounting practice.

These six factors are the common drivers of every high-performing practice.

Dozens of firms have signed onto an initiative to stop underselling the worth of accountants and collect payments on time from clients.

Buy-sell agreements provide some calm during an upsetting period.

In absence of secure systems that clients and staff will use, horror stories abound.

Five experts helped FP compile a big list of potential deductions and strategies surrounding retirement plans and business entity structures.

Corporations relying on carbon credits to support their green claims now face "robust and credible" proof that the vast majority of such securities aren't fit for purpose.

Tax professionals may be unaware of the potential benefits that can be gained by partnering with a wealth manager.

How many inefficient meetings do we have in which 10 people, each billing out at $100 to $400 an hour, sit around talking about things without having a clear-cut objective or next steps from the meeting?