teamwork: room for improvement
you may believe you have a great team in place. but does your team agree?
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busy season 2015: headaches from obamacare
‘aca is pita bs for cpas.’ next year’s plan: ‘become a monk.’
next question: the smartest moves this busy season? join the survey; get the results
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as busy season 2015 grinds down, tax prep professionals are grappling with myriad and continuing issues with new rules, thin staffing and difficult clients, according to the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 annual busy season barometer. but the new affordable care act seems to be causing the most widespread aches and pains among accountants.
half of cpa firm staffers could jump jobs
compensation, work-life balance among the factors.
are your employees satisfied? how sure are you? nearly 48 percent of respondents in a new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 survey say no, not really. their answers range from deep dissatisfaction to on the fence. read more →
cpa firms struggle to meet staff cpe expectations
in comments: “more is needed. this is an opportunity for firm leadership.”
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results of a new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 career outlook survey show optimism among staffers about management support for personal advancement and commitment to training. but firms appear to be struggling to keep up with staff demands.
accountants see solid business gains in 2015
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 strategy shift report: accounting firms around the world reap benefits of easing oil prices, government stimulus and innovation.
by rick telberg
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tax and accounting practitioners are heading into a new year and a new busy season markedly more confident and optimistic than they’ve been in years, according to the 10th annual 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 strategy shift report.
professionals from milwaukee to tucson and karachi to kampala are telling 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 of brightening business forecasts for their firms in 2015.
top trends in emerging business strategies
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fully 71 percent of professionals say they are more than somewhat confident in the business and economic outlook for their firms, with a record 30 percent telling 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 they are “highly confident” for the prospects of their business.
to be sure, they are less certain about the prospects for their client base or the nation as a whole than they are for themselves, their families and their firms. read more →
how to join the annual accounting firm operations and technology survey
reality check: achieving world-class growth requires real-world intelligence
why you can’t believe your own press clippings.
by gale crosley, cpa
crosley+co
ever run a race and immediately sense that you got off to an exceptionally fast start? it’s a good feeling, but if your goal is to beat out the competition there’s really only one way to know for sure how you’re doing. and that’s by marking your progress toward the finish line relative to the other racers.
the same can be said of efforts to grow your firm. to gauge your progress you have to get outside your own four walls and see how you measure up to the competition. read more →
benchmarking ‘elite’ cpa firms against the ‘mainstream’
looking inside firms with income per partner over $500,000.
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rosenberg map survey
if you’re a firm with two or more partners wondering just how well your business compares to the cpa profession’s “elite” firms, you should be looking for a 5.2% revenue gain this year, according to the new rosenberg survey. and your revenue growth last year should have been at least 7.4%, excluding any changes that resulted from mergers.
the survey, based on activity at firms across the country with annual fees ranging from less than $2 million to more than $20 million, defines “elite” as the firms with income per partner of more than $500,000. by comparison, the average income per partner for the profession’s “mainstream” firms is $345,177.
the report provides comparisons for benchmarks including billing rates, partner-to-staff ratios, hours billed annually, staff turnover rates, men-to-women ratios, partner ages, client services and partner compensation.
survey results: cpa firms accelerate growth
the 2014 national map survey shows widening divide between large and small firms.
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the national map survey of cpa firm statistics
marking the third consecutive year of quickening expansion since the recession, cpa firms are posting 6.7% revenue growth, according to the latest results from the national map survey of cpa firm statistics reported here exclusively by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.
“the national map survey of cpa firm statistics: the rosenberg survey” is well known and well respected within the national cpa industry, due to its solid reputation for accuracy, thoroughness and high participation rate. exactly 75% of the firms in this year’s survey participated in 2013. this allows for more accurate year-to-year data comparisons. all of these characteristics, plus the highly sought-after executive summary, make “the rosenberg survey” a must-read for any entrepreneurial-minded cpa firm. the survey captures data from participating firms of all revenue ranges, from solo practitioners to those with over $20 million in net fees. read more →
new survey results: accountants face stiff client resistance to cloud accounting apps
smbs say cloud accounting is the last thing they want.
accountants are encountering extraordinary difficulties in getting their small- and mid-size business clients to adopt cloud computing, according to new research findings made available first to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.
accounting is the last operation small business wants to update. everything else comes first, according to software advice, austin, texas-based accounting technology reviews company.
key findings:
- over half of respondents express moderate to high levels of confidence in cloud-based accounting solutions, with 32 percent indicating “moderate” confidence.
- with 5 percent already using cloud accounting, only 16 percent more are likely to move ahead anytime soon.
- the top concern with cloud-based accounting, cited by 46 percent of small business owners, is security. cost and training were other key concerns. read more →
video: soloists drive mobile tech trend in accounting, with rick telberg
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survey: how accountants keep up with tech trends
top strategy: compare with peers.
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the pace of change in technology is leaving accountants so dazed and confused that about half of all practitioners say merely “keeping up” is one of their biggest technology-related problems. cost comes second.
accountants are so fed up with the staggering pace of developments that you couldn’t pay them enough to try a new software product “while drinking umbrella drinks on a beach at vendor expense,” according to randy johnston and leslie garrett, writing in the new accounting firm operations and technology survey. they caution, however, that “if you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more.”
the survey reveals the top tactics accountants are employing to stay up to date and make informed decisions – starting with keeping close tabs on their colleagues and competitors. read more →
survey: top 10 ways firms tutor top talent
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.
the questionnaire for “talent strategies: how to identify and develop professionals for management and leadership responsibilities” remains online and open as 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 continues to collect data and refine its analysis. read more →