Partnerships

Firm leaders experience frustration when their partners and managers resist strategic initiatives, but they will be able to work through it by understanding what resistance means,

When you protect your staff from problematic clients through higher pricing or firing clients who can't work well with the firm, you send a strong message.

Outside investment has disrupted a century of how things have always been done in accounting, and it might not sit well with the stated direction of many firms.

Ownership in a CPA firm is more expensive today than it ever has been. Is it worth it?

SALT and the bill; digital taxes worldwide; retaining clients; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Firms can benefit when more partners have an administrative assistant to help with their work.

Public accounting is a vibrant and strong profession and also a business, as shown in data from the latest rankings on firm revenues, partners and staff size.

The Top 75 Firm based in Atlanta has steered clear of private equity funding so far and plans to remain independent, despite frequent calls and emails.

Firms risk being left behind if they don't carefully navigate the current transformative era, experts warn.

What does a firm need to know to determine its interest in PE or another external capital partner? Here are 10 critical questions for CPAs and some vignettes.

The Treasury and IRS plan to withdraw regulations that labeled basis-shifting transactions among partnerships and related parties as "transactions of interest."

How about an entrepreneurial path that puts you in an environment where you can be strategic and innovative for the good of the firm?

In an era dominated by private equity and merger mania, firms that want to stand alone have to make that a conscious — and continual — choice.

Firms everywhere are adopting alternative practice structures -- but who knows what an APS really is? William Kelly, chief counsel at Ascend, dives into the details.

No matter where you are in your career, you control your own destiny.

GreenGrowth CPAs acquired retiring firm CGC Accountants & Advisors in a move to expand its new service niche.

Just like your favorite NFL or college football team, your firm has opponents, and you need to manage all aspects of a successful firm to stay competitive.

As artificial intelligence streamlines many accounting tasks, clinging to hourly billing will become increasingly unsustainable.

More firms are creating alternative paths for employees who want to excel, but who don't want to "sell their soul to the firm" in order to make partner.