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.

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.

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

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.

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

Developing accountability in your staff is simple, consultant John Spence told a gathering of accountants here -- but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

Through the years there have always been subtle changes for managing partners and CEOs, and their reporting partners and managers, in the functions and activities of managing the firm or company.

Employers added 179,000 jobs in the private sector in May, according to payroll giant ADP, although the pace of job growth slowed somewhat from April.