Practice management

KPMG chairman and CEO Lynne Doughtie, Ernst & Young chairman and CEO Mark Weinberger, and PricewaterhouseCoopers U.S. chairman and senior partner Tim Ryan are weighing in on the protests in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend, denouncing the bigotry and hatred on display.

Users can pull pertinent information from their email straight into Xero HQ.

Deloitte has acquired Acne, a Swedish creative agency that designs marketing and advertising campaigns for companies such as Ikea, H&M, Spotify, Telenor and Max in Europe.

Maureen Schwartz of BKR International suggests five ways young professionals will impact future leadership.

While solutions to help employees manage their travel-related expenses have evolved steadily over the past two decades, innovation in the space has really accelerated in the last five years.

Clients can obtain a loan from the payment portal company, while the firm gets paid in full.

Experts from Boomer consulting discuss blockchain, kicking regressive partners out and hiring non-traditional talent.

The Top 20 Firm is seeking submissions of top nonprofit revenue initiatives from across the country.

Articulating goals quickly and clearly is one of the most important keys to earning clients and recruits.

Business owners and entrepreneurs are sometimes notoriously closed off to advice from others, including from their own accountant.

Uber has updated its Uber for Business program with new expensing, billing and reporting features for corporate users of the ride-hailing app.

The American Institute of CPAs is recommending a set of changes to the Internal Revenue Service’s proposed partnership audit regulations.

Three international standard-setting boards for auditing, accounting ethics and accounting education issued a new publication Monday in the hopes of making accountants and auditors more skeptical of management assertions.

My best hires were those I hired out of school and trained.

CalCPA awards three individuals and one firm; Baker Tilly to host ‘Hot Topics seminar;’ and more news from CPA offices across the country.

Citrin Cooperman adds two partners and a principal; LBMC promotes 19 professionals to senior; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.

Many of the larger CPA firms have not delivered on the trusted business advisor promise. Nor will they in the foreseeable future.

The United Nations Academic Impact and MLOW provide an example to follow.

Just as no ship would sail without navigational tools, no successful professional services firm would attempt to grow their business without a solid sales and marketing strategy.

I’ve always wondered if others see me as a bit of a “yes person.” I work hard, and I’m proud that the individuals and teams I work with consider me a team player. But always being on deck to help has not always served me well.