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six great online places to find talent

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by sandi smith leyva, cpa
accountant’s accelerator

when you need to expand your team, the good news is there are many options available today:

  • full time vs. part-time
  • your location or theirs
  • contract or employee
  • permanent or temporary
  • project-specific or recurring
  • and many more options

thousands of people are looking for work, and thousands more are looking for small tasks that they can do on the side.  to find the perfect person for you, here’s a list of sites that help match you to the perfect person for your task, project or job. read more →

crowdsourcing for accounting practices

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going beyond outsourcing and virtual workers.

by sandi smith, cpa
accountant’s accelerator

the days are long gone when the only way to build your business was by hiring full-time employees. now there are so many more choices. many employees are interested in part-time work. some prefer to work virtually, which frees a company up from being limited to local talent. and then there’s crowdsourcing, a whole new way to tap into talented labor on a project-by-project basis.

crowdsourcing is a special way to outsource a task. with outsourcing, you know exactly who will be doing the task. with crowdsourcing, you don’t; people just show up and contribute. wikipedia calls it “distributed problem-solving.” read more →

staff training starts with doing something

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ed mendlowitz, cpa, abv, pfs
author of “the 30:30 training method“

question: thanks for the training memo. although i requested your memo because i know i need help with improving efficiency and the like with my practice, many of your thoughts and ideas i have already thought of but simply did not implement them.

response: i think you hit part of the nail on the head in what you wrote – you’ve had many of the ideas and “simply did not implemented them.” you need to make changes or things stay the same. read more →

hire experienced people, or train them yourself?

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how to invest your mentoring time where it matters most.

question: we were looking for an additional experienced person since september and hired someone with five years experience in mid-november, but she said she couldn’t start until january.  she said she had work she had to finish up.  two days before christmas she called to tell me her firm made her a “better” offer and she decided to stay there. it meant we had to enter busy season short a person.  this seems to happen a lot.  what do you suggest? read more →

accounting staffers show new signs of job restlessness

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some 37 percent of finance and accounting workers say they are likely to look for a new job in the next 12 months, an increase from 33 percent last quarter.

fifty-three percent say they are not likely to job search, falling five percentage points from the previous quarter.

confidence among u.s. finance and accounting workers decreased 2.4 points to 53.4 in the first quarter of 2013 after rebounding in the last quarter of 2012. read more →

trends in temporary staffing

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rationalizing a broken system and recapturing two-thirds of lost value.

dan gaffney
dan gaffney

with cpa firms and corporations rushing to staff up with a suddenly warming economy, finance and accounting employment agencies are booming. but it can’t last. sooner, rather than later, the internet will change everything.

dan gaffney, a cpa, cia, cisa and a 20-year audit veteran, in both public accounting and in corporate, is positioning himself to take advantage of the paradigm shift. he’s out to revolutionize the finance and accounting temp business.

his chicago-based incubation-stage start-up, vouchedin.com, is seeking to do to short-term staffing placements what monster did to newspaper classifieds and what apple did to the recording industry: leverage the internet to cut out the middleman, re-channeling profits to both the worker and the employer. it could change a big part of the accounting profession as well. – the editors read more →

when staffers don’t listen to you

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15-item checklist on effective staff management.

ed mendlowitz, cpa, abv, pfs
author of “implementing fee increases”

question: my staff doesn’t listen to me.  to be able to manage and control my business i need them to prepare a monthly schedule of what they plan on doing that month.  i further need to know each morning if they did what they were supposed to do the previous day, and whether there was anything not done, or anything extra that wasn’t planned on.  my problem is that they don’t give me the schedule and then don’t call or email me to tell me what they did. i really need to know this stuff and can’t figure out how to get them to do it.  what can you suggest? read more →

comp plans for the new managing partner

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lessons from the best-managed firms.

by marc rosenberg
author of “cpa firm management and governance: the managing partner’s guide to running a cpa firm like a business.”

baby boomer partners are rapidly approaching retirement age, resulting in a dramatic increase in new managing partners at firms.

in fact, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 estimates that up to 25% of multi-owner firms are operating under managing partners who are relatively new to the job, with tenures under three years. and over the next five years, one-third of multi-owner firms will undergo a change in ownership and/or control. read more →

novice manager needs to know: how to do it all?

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15 strategies for a first-time supervisor’s success.

here at 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间, ed mendlowitz answers some of the toughest questions practitioners can throw at him. he’s the right one to ask. after more than 40 years in the business – building his own practice, running the firm, and eventually selling it to a major regional firm, withumsmith+brown, where he remains a senior partner and consultant to professional services clients – he has the answers. we’re happy to have him at 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间. send your questions for ed here, or chime in with comments below.

ed mendlowitz cpa the practice doctor q and amore from ed mendlowitz, the practice doctor q&a: why no one listens to you | fun reads for busy season  |  when not to offer a free initial consultation | measuring growth in yourself, staff and partners  |  what do you think you’re doing?  | can you teach judgment?  |  clients’ calls at home  | what you need to know before expanding into business valuation |

question: my boss asked me to call you.  i am a staff accountant with five years experience.  i am having a lot of stress trying to manage everything i have to do. i am juggling supervising people that i don’t know how to supervise, being managed less by those above me and having to figure out more for myself – including things i never did before or in industries i never worked on previously, keeping current with changes in accounting rules and taxes (since i am more like a generalist and clients ask me everything) never seem to have any free time, juggling my schedule because most of my clients are never ready when they say they will be and being accountable to my boss for everything i do plus what the staff working under me does. so how do i do it all? how can i prioritize all my responsibilities? read more →

why no one listens to you

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the new “listening deficiency epidemic.”

ed mendlowitz cpa the practice doctor q and aquestion: i notice that most of the time my staff doesn’t listen when i talk.  how can i make them listen?

more from ed mendlowitz, the practice doctor q&a: fun reads for busy season  |  when not to offer a free initial consultation | measuring growth in yourself, staff and partners  |  what do you think you’re doing?  | can you teach judgment?  |  clients’ calls at home  | what you need to know before expanding into business valuation |

response: i find this issue very widespread.  i believe there is an epidemic of people not listening, not just staff.

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