Practice management

Major elements of the accounting firm model are changing, and Tamera Loerzel and Jennifer Wilson of ConvergenceCoaching identify some of the most important changes that firm leaders need to keep up with.

A presidential executive order raises questions about a tool that accounting firms often rely on.

Having accountants involved seems to lower costs and result in fewer restatements.

In the new reality, a firm must accelerate the development of its staff.

Small gestures pay big dividends and cement your position as the trusted advisor.

The service didn’t flag hundreds of millions of dollars of unsupported deductions.

Every one of your clients wants to work with an accountant they can trust and rely on.

As CEO of a midsized or small CPA firm, ask yourself this tough question: “Why would someone want to be a partner in this firm?”

Withum merges in OUM; and Whitley Penn plans to add Werlein & Harris.

The Internal Revenue Service has begun offering online Tax Pro Accounts that practitioners can use for submitting an authorization request to an individual client’s own taxes online with the IRS.

Our currency is what we know, along with our ability to use it to help our clients.

Accounting firms’ most common mistakes involve focusing on themselves, not their clients.

The Internal Revenue Service has launched a campaign this summer to persuade tax professionals to improve their cybersecurity amid an escalating series of ransomware attacks around the world.

While CPAs have provided crucial financial counsel to clients navigating economic uncertainty, it does not mean they themselves are out of the woods.

The Regional Leader has bought Breakpoint Technology, a data analytics and technology collaboration practice in Louisville, Kentucky.

With millions of more Americans now telecommuting, accounting firm leaders need to know how to prevent data breaches and information theft.

The overemphasis on measuring and reporting sustainability has delayed, and displaced, the urgent action needed to tackle societal challenges.

Some people might have ulterior or selfish reasons for doing something, but that doesn’t negate what you can learn from them.

The Deloitte Foundation partners with Ohio State University on diversity scholarships; and Cincinnati based firm Barnes Dennig will hold its annual Outreach Day on Oct. 22.

Take a look around your own firm to see if an uncomfortable number of senior staff are on the cusp of retirement. Who will replace them?