Young accountants entering the profession and small firms may both be missing a huge opportunity, according to leading consultant Darren Root.

In addition to overseeing the daily operation of their business, small business owners rely on accountants to provide guidance on how to comply with changing rules, regulations and laws on the state and federal level.

A majority of employees believe workplace etiquette affects their career prospects, but they also think people become less courteous as they rise to the top, according to a new survey by Accountemps, a staffing company for temporary accounting, finance and bookkeeping professionals that’s part of staffing giant Robert Half.

H&R Block has created a new program to draw CPAs and other accountants who are interested in selling their practices or becoming H&R Block franchises, with the new service spearheaded by accounting industry consultant Jennifer Katrulya.

Succession planning requires a pipeline

Talk about one of the most overused questions related to goal setting! How clichéd is the question of where someone wants to be in five years? What do you expect them to say? I want to rule the world! I want to be making an obscene amount of money! I want to be successful in my career! I want to be retired and laying on the beach! I want! I want! I want!

Private sector employers added 218,000 jobs in July in a further sign of the rebounding economy, although the pace of job growth slackened from last month, according to the latest national employment report from payroll giant ADP.

Payroll processor Paychex and the research firm HIS reported an increase in small business employment in July, with states like Washington and Michigan leading the way.

Accounting Today and Accountingfly have announced Advance 2014: The Accounting Career Summit, a week-long event featuring a series of high-profile webinars on recruitment, retention and the accounting job market, culminating in an online job fair.

Employees of U.S. small businesses saw their average paychecks rise for the first time this year, according to online payroll provider SurePayroll.

One of the most closely watched and discussed issues in Washington this year is tax reform.

The accounting job site CollegeFrog has been renamed Accountingfly as the site adds the function of allowing accounting firms to recruit experienced employees.

Thousands of firms are working through the succession and retirement of senior partners and deciding along the way whether or not they can pull it off internally and stay independent.

New Jersey Society of CPAs CEO and executive director Ralph Thomas discusses the need for greater diversity in accounting firms, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

Every now and again, being an executive coach brings me into conversations with a fascinating subset within the CPA world—the CPAs who want to be something else when they grow up.

U.S. small business employment grew for the fourth consecutive month in June, adding 20,000 jobs, according to Intuit.

One of the keys to success for companies is choosing the right person for the job. Selecting the right people greatly improves your chances for success—whether you are building a CPA practice, staffing a client team or climbing Mt. Everest.

Private sector employment increased by 281,000 jobs in June, showing signs of a strengthening economy, according to payroll giant ADP’s monthly national employment report.

Payroll service provider Paychex is seeing signs of improvement in employment at small businesses in the first six months of 2014, although it has also found a slight drop-off in the past two months.

The gender scale of the workforce that makes up the accounting profession has officially tipped in favor of women, with more than half of all accountants being women (53 percent). What has not yet tipped in women’s favor are the statistics around women holding leadership positions.