16 ways to tweak your compensation systems to get and keep the right clients.
if your partners are putting up a fight to keep clients who should be let go, take a look at your compensation system. it’s not just about billable hours.
august aquila, creating the effective partnership, suggests 16 tweaks to your firm’s compensation system. while the list is not exhaustive, it does provide criteria that firms can consider beyond revenue. read more →
one-third of u.s. accountants work at home, on their own, moonlighting. here are their biggest issues and best tips…
get more when you join the survey, get the results.
by rick telberg
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if you’re reading this at home, or on your own time, you’re not alone. today more than one-third of accountants are already moonlighting in “side” practices or home offices – especially during busy season, according to a 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 survey of almost 800 accountants.
today’s best career advice: join the survey; get the answers.
by rick telberg
at 20 years old, the world was a blank canvas with vast opportunities for sal inserra. he thought he knew exactly what he wanted in life.
“until,” he once told me, “i was set straight.”
like many cpas, sal owes much of his career and success to a few key mentors who guided him early on.
today — as the kids head back to school and college, and as the rest of us wind up our summers and look ahead to the fall — it may be a good time to salute the mentors who help steward a great profession to the next generation. read more →
get certified. apply early and often. join the survey; get the results.
by rick telberg
i’m looking over the early responses to our new cpa careers survey and one stands out for its practicality and wisdom. this from a veteran senior finance manager at a fortune 1000 company is, i think, 18 pieces of the best advice i’ve ever heard.
1. for the accountant who is not a cpa yet: if you’re not a cpa already, make it a goal.
2. if you need hours, apply to every accounting firm that you could drive to or are willing to move close to.
3. apply beginning in mid-april, after busy season, when accounting firms clean house. read more →
cpas share some of their best time-management tips. how hard are you working?
by rick telberg
with the days of summer rapidly dwindling, accountants and finance managers across the nation are grabbing their last vacation days. but it’s not always easy.
many finance and accounting professionals are working harder than ever, doing more with less as their organizations cut back with the recession. balancing life and work becomes all the more difficult and all the more important. so we’ve been asking readers for their best time-management tips for a balanced life.
here are nine of the best we’ve received so far: read more →
but can you deduct the boat as a second office? learn how cpas manage work on the go. join the survey; get the answers.
by rick telberg
for cpas, working outside of the office is not just a matter of getting more work done. it could improve your life. read more →
in a tough economy, many firms go back to basics to find success.
here’s a list of 25 ideas for growing your practice from management consultant august aquila.
how many are you currently doing?
eight good tips for getting everyone on board when change is scary.
change is inevitable. but with a crashing a crashing economy, it is also treacherous, which makes these suggestion from august aquila all the more urgent.
1. know where you want to go. what are you trying to achieve as a firm and a partner group? while it’s always difficult to address the elephant in the room, now is the time to take advantage of the economic turmoil and bring all issues to the table.
2. get others involved. if you are the only one in the firm who is pushing for the change, you might as well forget about it. when others get involved they also get committed. they provide you with feedback so that you can develop the best steps in the change process. read more →
cpas wish they were at the beach.
by rick telberg
and if our straw poll means anything, it would be a beach in hawaii.
the statistical side of the survey showed most accountants and finance managers taking between two and four weeks off, with only 8 percent getting a week, and 9 percent getting more than five weeks.
still, 59 percent saw some of their hard-earned vacation days untaken, and 69 percent thought they deserved more vacation than they got. just over half said they could be tempted to take another job that offered more time off.
business is good, but cpas say the workload never eases up.
by rick telberg
cpa across all areas of the profession this summer are confirming the best hopes and worst fears that the profession felt when the year was beginning. yes, business is up across all sectors and should continue to improve, especially for public practice firms, but there are not enough people to handle the work.
our readings are showing that two-thirds of cpas in all sectors of the accounting profession are enjoying better business than last year. asked to look 12 months into the future, roughly the same number expect their business conditions to be even better, although members in public practice are slightly more optimistic than members in business and industry.
it’s not enough to just “go paperless.” take the tech strategies survey; see how you rate.
by rick telberg
techno-pundits have been predicting the demise of office paper for decades. but now it appears that accountants are actually achieving the paperless office, at least technologically, with the help of the cloud. but actually thinking paperless? well, that’s another story.
accountants pinpoint winning strategies and bottom-line results. join the survey; get the topline results.
by rick telberg
new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research conducted for the seven keys to successful cpa firm management program isolates at least three defining characteristics of peak performing accounting firms.
the research results, to be unveiled in a two-hour workshop, show that so-called sevenkeys leaders are:
the new research findings also reveal the winning strategies and tactics deployed by the leading firms. at the top of the list for sevenkeys leaders: networking, social media and blogging, public speaking, and website upgrades. workshop attendees will get the full survey results, apply the new benchmarks to their own practices using self-assessment scoresheets, and use a specially designed workbook to lay out action plans.
overall, the data seem to show that firms are narrowing their marketing efforts while generally increasing overall activity. and many accountants have been happy to share some of their secrets with 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.
here are a few: read more →