Recruiting

Fortune Magazine released its 2016 Fortune 100 Best Workplaces for Women list, and it included three CPA firms.

The staffing company Accounting Principals analyzed the best states for accounting and finance professionals to live in by tracking the number of accounting and financial positions in each state from 2009 to 2016 to see how well each state’s job prospects are growing. Texas came out on top.

Starting salaries of accounting and finance professionals are projected to rise an average of 3.7 percent next year, according to the annual salary guide from staffing company Robert Half.

What human resources professionals at top-performing CPA firms have to say

Strategic planning needs to take account of the rest of your life

Salaries for accountants and finance professionals are expected to go up 2.8 percent in 2017, an increase from the 2.4 percent anticipated for this year, according to a soon-to-be-released salary guide from the staffing company Accounting Principals.

Consultants Tamera Loerzel and Jennifer Wilson of ConvergenceCoaching answer tough HR questions they’ve heard from real accounting firms.

Consultants Tamera Loerzel and Jennifer Wilson of ConvergenceCoaching answer tough HR questions they’ve heard from real accounting firms (text version).

Retaining and attracting the next generation of qualified professionals

Accounting Today has announced its 2016 Best Accounting Firms to Work For.

The mobile game Pokémon Go has been grabbing the attention of young people ever since it was introduced last month, bringing together gamers in search of Pokémon characters, but could it also entice young employees and clients to the accounting firms that desperately need them?

How some women leaders have guided CPA firms toward growing meaningful programs.

New Jersey Society of CPAs CEO and executive director Ralph Albert Thomas is encouraging CPA firms and other businesses to expand their diversity and inclusion efforts.

Mentoring young staff should be a crucial part of the recruiting and retention tool kit of more accounting firms

This edition of Generational Viewpoints features two individuals from HoganTaylor on how public accounting firms need to change to attract and retain young talent

Tennessee’s LBMC is well on its way to solving this conundrum

Accounting firms are looking to bring in younger employees to fill their ranks as older Baby Boomer partners start to retire, but they have to offer the right enticements if their succession planning is going to work.

Many accounting firms have robust formal learning programs for their staff early in their careers.

Upward Spiral Partnership managing director Martin Bissett explains in this video how to retain quality staff members by providing them with a viable career path.

Upward Spiral Partnership managing director Martin Bissett discusses in this video his research on the seven distinctive behaviors that firms are looking for before promoting a senior manager to partner.