it’s a long season. make it a happy one.
by ed mendlowitz
tax season opportunity guide
if you have staff, have happy cheerful helpful people. don’t surround yourself with downers and naysayers.
also have team players. part of this is your firm’s culture. it takes work to get people to work together and to focus on doing what it takes to service the client fully, properly and timely. everyone working together gets it done.
no kidding! here are 12 ways.
by ed mendlowitz
tax season opportunity guide
tax season presents exciting opportunities for accounting firms and their staffs. every moment should be enjoyed and appreciated.
following are 12 reasons:
1. tax season is profitable and accounting is a business where we try to maximize our earnings. sure, there is a great concentration of work in a short period with occasional pressure, but if handled properly, the work can be managed sensibly with tensions at reasonable levels. i also believe much of the pressure is self-induced by poor scheduling, inadequate quality control and the lack of uniform systems that are followed by everyone in the firm, particularly the partners.
it’s good for business and considerate to clients.
by ed mendlowitz
tax season opportunity guide
tax season is a business and businesses need to be paid. it is harder to justify prices when providing services rather than products. products are usually priced before delivery while many times services are priced after delivery, i.e. performance.
many accountants price returns before they are worked on, usually basing the fee on last year, or a rate schedule. sending a bill with the return establishes the relationship that you should be paid promptly for the work done.
majority of practitioners reporting improved results.
complete findings are published in the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 practitioner’s tax season performance review and outlook report. (learn more here)
by rick telberg
the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy-season mood-barometer is showing significantly higher satisfaction and confidence ratings as the profession grinds through one of its best performances in years.
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job 1: managing client expectations. by rick telberg accountants are bracing for delays and confusion caused by late-breaking tax rules and regs, not to mention the complications of a difficult and uncertain economy, when tax season 2011 starts with the … continued
and four reasons why you should too. perhaps more surprisingly, according to a copanion survey of 850 accountants, only 10% had no plans to scan tax documents at all, with the remaining 20% are still just considering it.