marchternity: just say ‘no’
whether marchternity continues depends entirely upon you.
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at large
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busy season
how bullish are you this tax season?
tax pros see gains in clients, revenue, and profits.
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tax pro e-filing gains vs diy
refund amounts are up by double digits.
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2018 tax season: the race to be ready
as tax season approaches, practitioners race to get ready.
is your tax workflow digital yet?
make sure it’s not just your admins using the tools.
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reader sound-off: mandatory saturdays stir controversy
is it work-life balance, or firm-employee balance?
sound-off: does your firm mandate saturdays?
join the conversation here.
by beth bellor
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tax season has yet to start and already tempers are flaring in the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 comments section as practitioners debate requiring staffers to work on saturdays during busy season.
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in “how to make mandatory saturdays a thing of the past,” 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 contributor jennifer wilson says the “cool firms” are eliminating the age-old practice nd replacing it with flex-time, work-at-home, and results-oriented strategies. still, she says, “i literally hear a gasp of surprise because it challenges one of the most fundamental elements of public accounting – tracking, measuring and valuing time.”
10 quick and easy tips for a better busy season
you may want to keep some of these going year round.by sandi leyva
the accountant’s accelerator
another busy season is upon us. are you feeling excited, anxious or dread?
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it’s probably a mix, but hopefully there’s more excitement than any other emotion since you will be helping so many more people during busy season than any other time of the year. here are 10 easy-to-implement ideas to help your busy time go smoother than ever.
richard berkowitz drives berkowitz pollack brant to ‘warp speed’
workload compression is offset by expanding practice areas, client mix.
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“changes in business, changes in laws and changes in regulatory environments are happening at warp speed,” warns richard berkowitz, managing partner of the berkowitz pollack brant advisors and accountants firm in miami.
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he ranks handling of the fast-paced flow of updated information regarding laws, regulations and related matters among the most prominent issues and opportunities facing his firm and other cpa practices around the country. his firm’s $56 million in revenue during 2015 rank it as the nation’s 68th largest accounting firm in the nation and florida’s third largest.
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busy season 2016: topline survey results
top trends, metrics, benchmarks, and lessons learned. by rick telberg 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 for most cpas, this year’s busy season may have been a marked improvement from last year’s, but that doesn’t mean savvy practitioners aren’t already learning new lessons and … continued
tax season management: multi-tasking is a myth
here’s how to apply neuroscience insights to tax season. next question: what are the best time-management tips and strategies for busy season? join the survey. get the answers.
by hitendra patil
it’s october 14th. you are preparing a complex tax return. the cell phone rings. you look at the phone. it’s your wife calling. you answer the call. while on the call, you look at the third screen of your computer. there is an email from your largest client, with subject line “emergency; please help.” in walks your receptionist, frantically gesturing that there is an irritated client at the front desk.
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yes. you may recognize the multiple demands on your time and your brain. but multi-tasking is just a myth. the science is in: no one performs as well multi-tasking as they do when focused on a single task at a time.
busy season problems begin to extend year-round
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tax professionals find it increasingly difficult to keep up with late-changing tax regs
the number of practitioners reporting major issues with code & reg changes doubles.
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across the country, a lot of cpas felt downright punished this busy season as they got hit by problems from all sides. nobody reported earthquakes or tsunamis, but it seems a bunch got slammed by something worse than a tectonic pounding.
bam! pow! oof! yes, it was that dynamic duo, that tyrannical twosome, that yoke of you-know-whats: the united states tax code and the internal revenue service.
according to the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season survey, 12% percent of respondents report a busy season “much worse than last year.” another 24% had a “somewhat worse year.” add them up, and more than a third of the nation’s tax preparers suffered a painful busy season.
and the most commonly cited complaint are difficulties with the tax code, ranging from the requirements of the affordable care act to the new repair regs. read more →
the new normal: a busy season that never ends
staff woes contribute to major tax season problems
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the 2015 busy season may be one for the records. according to this year’s 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season survey, more than a third of the nation’s tax preparers report a busy season that was much worse or somewhat worse than last year, and it wasn’t just the cold and the snow. read more →