how and when to leverage ziprecruiter, indeed, and social media

the digital toolset for hiring at a small accounting firm.

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accounting firms need to use every tool available to maintain a fresh supply of top-notch talent, according to manny cosme, president of cfo services group, in this 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 interview with richard rothstein.

more: learning how to hire amid covid  | how covid rewrites the rules for recruiting | steven braunstein: new covid strategies for staff recruiting and retention | irs has recruiting problems, too | 12 signs it’s time to outsource | how aging boomers impact the accounting profession | why remote workers need retreats | 44 key attributes for assessing staffers | coaching the right way | 20 best practices for staff training and retention | the art and science of hiring: three essentials for the covid age | uncover potential in 10 interview questions | why your firm needs to attract more millenials | why small firms can win the talent wars | the one big reason your hiring sucks | five ways to improve operating margin during covid | getting and keeping the best people | be a talent magnet | who’ll quit next? | why you must constantly push work down |

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cosme makes some great points about working for a small nimble firm like cfo services group and the challenges of retaining great talent in the face of competition from bigger firms for high-quality talent. read more →

how to run a practice in 90 pages

another author provides a step-by-step guide.

by ed mendlowitz
the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 practice doctor

question: do you have a simple checklist that i could use as a guide to run my practice?

more: the wrong way to look for staff | how to get the most from cpe | does your staff know all the services you provide? | price your practice by gross | advising estate executors: the newbie guide to getting started | how’s your overhead?
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answer: actually my monthly q&a newsletters is a great and easy way to get information on how to run your practice. also my 101 book with my first 101 q&as is another great resource.
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staffing shortage? look at your business model

kill the billable hour, embrace remote work, stay flexible, get social, says pasha malik of thyor.


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twitter and linkedin are the go-to resources for finding new talent at the mclean, va.-based thyor group of companies, founder and ceo pasha malik tells richard rothstein for 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.

more on the staffing crisis:  the digital toolset for hiring at a small accounting firm  |  learning how to hire amid covid  | how covid rewrites the rules for recruiting | steven braunstein: new covid strategies for staff recruiting and retention | irs has recruiting problems, too | 12 signs it’s time to outsource | how aging boomers impact the accounting profession | why remote workers need retreats | 44 key attributes for assessing staffers | coaching the right way | 20 best practices for staff training and retention | the art and science of hiring: three essentials for the covid age | uncover potential in 10 interview questions | why your firm needs to attract more millenials | why small firms can win the talent wars | the one big reason your hiring sucks | five ways to improve operating margin during covid | getting and keeping the best people | be a talent magnet | who’ll quit next? | why you must constantly push work down |

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but he has much more to say about fixing the accounting business to make it more competitive for attracting the best people. in fact, his group of companies may be a model of the next-generation cpa firm, offering through various entities outsourced cfo services, tax planning, technology consulting, and venture capital advisory services. read more →

hiring, firing and the checklists you need

magnifying lens over group of job candidatesfrom marketing to onboarding to termination.

by jassen bowman

to grow your business beyond just what you yourself can accomplish, you’re going to end up hiring staff. unfortunately, with hiring also sometimes comes firing.

more: what your tax resolution staff must do | how to build a tax resolution business | why lists are not leads | your sales funnel needs systems | need a new service line? consider tax resolution
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having a written process for how you conduct your hiring will make the process much smoother. in addition, having written criteria established ahead of time for how you evaluate candidates and make hiring decisions could prove invaluable in the unlikely event of a discrimination lawsuit or other employee-related incident we never really want to think about dealing with.
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developing your office 365 deployment strategy

don’t treat it as just an extension of your desktop applications. that’s a waste.

by john higgins
cpa crossings

once you have made the decision to commit to deploying office 365 in your organization, it is important that you develop a deployment strategy. this will determine whether you achieve success or failure.

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there are countless examples of organizations that treat office 365 as simply an extension of the microsoft office desktop applications. they simply make office 365 available to their staff without any advanced planning or training. a sure recipe for disaster.

my goal is to provide you with some insight into how to effectively plan for your office 365 deployment to maximize the return on your investment and optimize the efficiency in your workflows. read more →

busy season benchmarks in free fall

major declines in all kpis: clients, revenues, profits, revenue per client, and profit per client.

busy season barometer:
how accountants are battling the coronavirus recession
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last year’s busy season was complicated, no doubt about it. the tax cuts and jobs act and the irs shut-down made life difficult for tax practitioners. but ultimately, they had a good year. a good 56 percent enjoyed an increase in clientele, and only 16 percent saw a decrease.

flash forward to the annus horribilis, aka 2020. according to this year’s 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer, only 46 percent of accountants are gaining clients — a 10-point reversal from last year. and another 25 percent are losing clients – a 15-point swing from 2019.

more busy season 2020: fiinal rs efiling stats: the end of tax season? | say hello to the new 24-month busy season | 9 big ways the irs could help accountants | the mystery of 10 million missing tax returns | tax pro e-filings down 20 percent | irs web traffic doubles over year-ago | covid drowns irs in new filings percent | irs web traffic doubles over year-ago | covid drowns irs in new filings | 2020 tax season comes to a screeching halt | the tax season 2020 dumpster fire | tax pros fall behind 6.2% in returns filed
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it’s impressive that so many tax offices have actually expanded their clientele during such hard times. and it’s not surprising that so many have lost clients.

what happened?

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