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.

The Wall Street Journal published an article with that title in their May 18, 1981 issue about my firm, and this column describes some of what we did.

Fortune Magazine released its 2016 Fortune 100 Best Workplaces for Women list, and it included three CPA firms.

The staffing company Accounting Principals analyzed the best states for accounting and finance professionals to live in by tracking the number of accounting and financial positions in each state from 2009 to 2016 to see how well each state’s job prospects are growing. Texas came out on top.

Starting salaries of accounting and finance professionals are projected to rise an average of 3.7 percent next year, according to the annual salary guide from staffing company Robert Half.

What human resources professionals at top-performing CPA firms have to say

Strategic planning needs to take account of the rest of your life

Salaries for accountants and finance professionals are expected to go up 2.8 percent in 2017, an increase from the 2.4 percent anticipated for this year, according to a soon-to-be-released salary guide from the staffing company Accounting Principals.