creative and marketing professionals are on the same pace, while information technology workers lead the work force gains at an anticipated 5.7 percent overall increase. overall, u.s. starting salaries for professional occupations are projected to increase an average of 3.8 percent next year. read more →
with practitioners across the country reporting strong demand for new hires, the nation’s tax, accounting and bookkeeping industries added 1,400 new jobs last month, with some sectors marking new highs for 2014 and approaching the pre-crash peak six years ago.
jennifer dizon, an audit and advisory partner at hood & strong’s san jose, calif., office, tells 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 her firm is looking to hire.
“we need more staff to service business growth,” says dizon, who is also the newly elected state chapter president of the national association of women business owners.
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in elkhart, kan., enrolled agent terri ryman at southwest tax & accounting says the office is “getting busier.” she “can’t keep up.”
in northridge, calif., gene wechsler at wechsler accountancy reports a similar trend. “the firm continues to grow at the rate of 1 to 2 new clients per week.”
needs vary though. “we need an additional tax preparer and accountant for small business monthly work,” says one of the owners of a seven-person firm in prescott, ariz., which is “currently advertising for an accountant/tax preparer.”
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in bellevue, wash., managing partner marc hutchinson at the six-cpa bashey, hutchinson, & walter reports, “we need experienced accountants, and ones that can take over the firm’s clients over the next 10 years.”
in this study, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 reports on:
current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, tax, payroll and cpa firm segments of the industry.
average hourly wages for key segments.
typical hours worked per week.
and trends concerning women in the accounting workforce.
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tax, accounting and bookkeeping employment, through august 2014
the u.s. tax, accounting and bookkeeping industry remains a bright spot in the nation’s economy, according to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 sources.
here 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 reports on:
current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, tax, payroll and cpa segments of the industry.
average hourly wages for key segments.
typical hours worked per week.
and trends concerning women in the accounting workforce.
overall, the u.s. economy added 142,000 jobs last month, 47,000 of them in professional and business services. meanwhile, the unemployment rate was little changed at 6.1 percent.
question: do you work from a checklist when you’re conducting staff performance appraisals?
response: silly question. checklists? do i have checklists?
seriously, staffing is a big concern, and i believe many smaller firms settle and hire the wrong people, which i’ve written about and probably beaten to death expressing my views.
firms now recovered about 9 in 10 jobs lost in financial collapse.
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the u.s. tax, accounting and bookkeeping industries have recovered nearly 89 percent of the jobs lost in the economic crisis, according to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 sources.
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here 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 reports on:
current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, tax, payroll and cpa segments of the industry.
average hourly wages for key segments.
typical hours worked per week.
and trends concerning women in the accounting workforce.
the u.s. economy as a whole added 209,000 jobs in july. in addition to the growth of 47,000 jobs in professional and business services, increases were seen in the manufacturing, retail trade and construction sectors. the unemployment rate remained stable at 6.2 percent, down from 7.3 percent a year earlier. read more →
question: i know you advocate for hiring entry-level staff, but is there a situation when an experienced person should be hired?
answer: obviously there are exceptions – but i believe they are few and far between and not worth the overall effort of only hiring experienced staff, which many small firms only hire, and occasionally larger firms do when they think a “gem” is available.
the main reason of the whys and wherefores of the exception and hiring experienced people is that the experienced person you interview has worked for only one firm and you believe that firm has the same quality standards for training and development as you have and the person is leaving because of: read more →
… and keeping them. 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 conducts surveys all the time, but we like to ask periodically if there are questions we just aren’t asking that you need answered. we’re giving you the opportunity to help your fellow accountants with … continued
no. 1 method: ‘give them challenging assignments.”
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it may sound harsh to the uninitiated, but the most common way for firms to turn talented staffers into future managers and leaders is to make their lives a little more difficult, according to a new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 multi-year study.
tax, accounting and finance professionals don’t agree on everything. but they do seem to agree on the key traits needed to succeed in the profession, according to a new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 multi-year study.
without a doubt, succession issues permeate all aspects of the firms we’re encountering.
these include identifying and developing successors — especially rainmakers and practice leaders, ensuring that the buy/sell makes sense and can be sustained over time, determining retirement timing and issues, establishing and executing transition plans, communicating plans, recruiting new talent to backfill positions and exploring new ways to govern the firm to give more voice to those who will be taking over. succession implications are far-reaching and can be consuming. read more →
most tax practitioners across the nation are preparing for the 2014 busy season with the hoping it can’t possibly be as bad as last year’s “worst tax season ever,” according to exclusive 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 polling.
about 61% of accountants today expect at least a “somewhat” or even “much” better season this year, according to the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer, a tracking poll now approaching its 11th year. some 26% expect no change from last year, and 13% are bracing for “somewhat worse” or “much worse.”
in the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 special report, responses and comments from more than 400 practitioners surveyed have been tabulated and analyzed. key findings:
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economic outlook for firms, clients, owners, and the nation in general.
practitioners’ forecasts for the upcoming season, compared with the forecasts from the same time a year ago and with 2013 actuals.
factors contributing to positive outlooks and factors contributing to negative outlooks.
top 10 challenges and concerns to prepare for and examples of how some practitioners are doing so
projections for key busy season metrics, including revenue, profit, client counts, extensions, revenue per client, and profit per client; compared with 2013 actuals and year-ago forecasts
the four key strategies shared by most practitioners with positive outlooks
the four important lessons learned from last year’s “worst tax season ever.”
question: a cpa sole practitioner with a few part time staff told me that he has come to realize that he no longer had a practice, but a business, and wanted to hire a person for “growth,” not just someone to help him get through the day.
he wanted some suggestions of what type of person he should hire. read more →
top trends: flexible staffing, retention challenges.
firms now recovered about 9 in 10 jobs lost in financial collapse.
question: i know you advocate for hiring entry-level staff, but is there a situation when an experienced person should be hired?
who gets promoted and why in accounting: 
