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.

Sole proprietors and practitioners mainly generate their revenue during tax season from tax preparation clients, but there are other opportunities for them.

A client decided that to grow her business she needed a top-tier sales manager and recruited someone from a much larger competitor.

Nearly two times as many startup business owners cite the U.S. tax structure over health care reform as the issue they anticipate having the biggest impact on their business this year, according to a new survey by the payroll technology provider Paychex.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has created a new video for YouTube featuring five women on the firm’s U.S. Leadership Team.

Last week, my team was able to achieve the highest of highs and lowest of lows. We celebrated in acquiring a new client that we sought to work with for the past two years. And we booed (or sighed in despair) when a colleague advised the firm that he would be transferring to a company in a different city. We hooted and hollered when the U.S. scored a goal to go up 2-1 on Portugal and we cried (literally for some of us) when Portugal scored in the last 30 seconds to tie the game.

In American corporate culture today, you can expect that many employees in any field hope to become part of upper management one day.

Paychex has acquired nettime solutions, LLC, a cloud-based time and attendance systems provider.

Small businesses are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy and a big reason why millions of Americans have jobs and successful careers.

I recently attended a mixer for bankers, attorneys and CPAs in my area and I ran into a manager from a competing CPA firm.