The Department of Labor released the highly anticipated final overtime rule in May, expanding overtime pay eligibility to approximately 4.2 million salaried workers across the country.

You need to make sure your compensation package is in range with the rest of the industry.

Everyone needs to step up to fill the ranks of the next generation of accountants

The millennial generation is expected to make up more than half the workforce over the next decade, but finding enough of them to staff accounting departments is proving to be a challenge for many companies.

Overall wage growth increased an average of 2 percent across different industries during the third quarter, according to a new report from payroll giant ADP.

Being a great place to work isn’t always about what you give employees – sometimes it’s about what you get from them, and how.

The Best Firms to Work For are taking work-life balance far beyond the old idea of letting people leave a little early or come in a little later.

Just as important as communicating openly with your employees – and arguably much harder -- is making sure they communicate openly with you.

Transparency is one of the prime hallmarks of the members of Accounting Today’s Best Firms to Work For – and the numbers prove it.

Welcome to 20 Days to a Better Firm! This series of short articles will share strategies on recruiting, retention and growth from the members of Accounting Today’s 2016 Best Firms to Work For list.

We hired Sam out of school and he worked for us two and a half years and then we split up our firm. This was ages ago and Sy and I left our third partner to form our new firm on Jan. 1, 1974. However, there is a valuable lesson here and I think it is worth sharing. It changed the way we hired staff.

Every year Accounting Today publishes the results of their survey that identifies the “Best Firms to Work For.” Since I have been out of the daily management of an accounting firm for a few years, I was curious to learn what new and innovative policies the leading firms today are embracing that puts them in the rankings as a great place to work.

Hiring the wrong candidate for a position in accounting and tax is expensive, in money, time and effort.

This was not written by me, but by James A. Koerber, CPA from Hattiesburg, Miss. This was his address at the swearing in ceremony for new CPAs in Mississippi.

Accounting firm consultant Kristen Rampe has released a new report on how CPA firms can address the staffing shortage afflicting so many firms today.

Small business job growth slowed slightly in September but is still up from a year ago, according to a new report from Paychex.

Private sector employers added 154,000 jobs in September, although there was some softening in certain sectors, according to payroll giant ADP.

I was fortunate early on in my career that I had a boss who gave me responsibility to supervise. On some level I was not really instructed how to supervise, but was told I could use the new person to help me get my work done.

PricewaterhouseCoopers wants to show the life of an accountant and auditor isn’t so boring after all, with a new YouTube video.

Experts suggest implementing new rules now, to work out the kinks.