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survey: outsourcing it
should you email or phone clients?
firms reveal preferred methods for communicating with clients and prospects.
survey: workflow, security the biggest tech challenges
survey: using portals to deliver tax returns?
less paper, more digital. but email remains a problem.
accounting firm operations and technology survey
hiring growth rate shows signs of leveling off
still healthy, but not as good as last year.
who’s hiring, who’s not.
who’s quitting, who’s staying.
and why and why not.
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by beth bellor
“stay the course.” remember that chestnut?
more on jobs: what staffing shortage? | payroll agencies lead jobs growth in the tax & accounting industry | hiring trends: accounting hits 4.2% expansion rate | hiring trends flash warning signs of slowdown in tax & accounting | charts: tax & accounting among biggest jobs creators in u.s. | hiring surge powered by growth in payroll agencies
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maybe it’s not time to rock the boat. the accounting profession is more than holding its own, with new highs seen in:
- overall earnings,
- staff earnings,
- cpa firm staff numbers and earnings, and
- payroll services earnings.
are partners getting younger?
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for the last dozen or so years, the number of partners over age 50 has steadily climbed upward, but now that’s changing, according to the new rosenberg map survey.
survey: nonprofits report bottom line growth
with demand for services increasing, agencies see tougher times ahead.
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cpa firms hiring more non-cpas in bid for high-tech talent
profession sees a 30-percentage-point decline in recruiting new accounting grads.
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cpa firms are increasingly passing over new accounting graduates, and, instead, are snapping up techies. but is the trend about to jump the shark? read more →
is client accounting services overhyped?
new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 study shows broad interest in cas, but also widespread failures to achieve hoped-for goals.
by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
client accounting services (cas), the full-menu offering of taking over many of a client’s routine internal bookkeeping chores, is fast emerging as an essential growth strategy for accounting firms across the nation, according to a new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research study, perhaps the broadest such study undertaken in the field so far.
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but most firms admit they’re falling short of their financial and operational goals for cas, illustrating the daunting challenges for accountants seeking to shift from traditional compliance services to the high-margin, fast-growth role of a so-called trusted advisor.
what staffing shortage?
demand for new hires shows signs of weakening.
by beth bellor
high-quality tax, accounting, and finance talent remain in high demand, with about 33% of companies reporting open positions, according to a new study that also forecasts strong hiring demand over the next 12 months.
more on jobs: payroll agencies lead jobs growth in the tax & accounting industry | hiring trends: accounting hits 4.2% expansion rate | hiring surge powered by growth in payroll agencies | tax shops cut 6,200 jobs | salary survey: top skills getting top pay
“more than one-third of the human resources professionals and hiring managers who participated in the q4 2019 hiring forecast survey reported unfilled jobs in accounting and finance,” according to sagar pandya, cpa, vp of operations at brilliant. “this number is lower than last quarter and lower than any other quarter in the past year.”
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map survey: when bigger isn’t better
how small firms profits stack up against larger firms in profitability.
by charles hylan
rosenberg map survey
while being a large firm doesn’t guarantee higher profits, data published in the new rosenberg survey shows larger firms tend to be more profitable than smaller firms.
in the infographic below, you’ll find the correlation between the size of a firm, in terms of net fees, and the corresponding profit as measured by income per equity partner.
cpa firm incomes gain 8% in new map survey
firms gear up for advisory, grapple with retirements, and take aim at bigger competitors.
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the rosenberg map survey
in the new 2019-2020 edition of the annual rosenberg map survey, the leading national benchmarking study for firms of all sizes, the average firm is growing at 7.7 percent, up from 7 percent in last year’s study and reversing a two-year decline.
meanwhile, organic growth, excluding mergers and acquisitions advanced to 5.9 percent from 4.3 percent, “proving that the accounting profession is really cultivating a focus on business development efforts,” according to the authors, led by charles hylan of the growth partnership and marc rosenberg of rosenberg associates, who founded the study 21 years ago, making it the longest-running such benchmarking project in the profession. (and available from 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 here.)
additional highlights of the new report include: read more →