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writing a reference? here’s how

stick to the facts.

by ed mendlowitz
the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 practice doctor

question: i have been asked to provide a reference for a former controller of a former client.

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should i do it?
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titles can make people happier

but some people will never be happy enough.

by ed mendlowitz
the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 practice doctor

question: my top staff person wants a better title than manager, or senior manager. any suggestions?

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answer: in larger firms, senior manager is one step below partner.
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client service opportunities

when cpas leave to work for a client

are you sure that grass is greener?

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

i know many cpas who left public accountancy to take a “better” job. for many of them this was a mistake. for some it worked out, so if you are one of the lucky few, you can stop reading what i have to say.

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there are basically three types of companies the accountant could work for – a small client that does not have an in-house controller or cfo, one whose controller will be replaced by the departing cpa, or a large company that has an entire accounting staff already in place. let’s talk about working for the small companies that do not have a controller.
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help! key staffer refuses to supervise people

4 ways to deal with it.

by ed mendlowitz
the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 practice doctor

question: i have a key staff person who does not like supervising people. he says he can do everything faster and better than anyone else and doesn’t want to take the time to teach someone who, he says, won’t do it as well. he is a workhorse and spends anywhere from 50 to 60 hours a week all year round. what do i do?

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answer: he told me his firm consists of 10 staff and one owner and this person is indispensible to him, but he (the owner)
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checklist

44 key attributes for assessing staffers

they’re in no order. what are your priorities?

by ed mendlowitz
the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 practice doctor

question: do you have a staff evaluation checklist?

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answer: i did not have a checklist of attributes that are looked at in evaluating staff performance, so i prepared one.
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why your billings are ruining your firm

do you see managing partner as a part-time role? if not, don’t treat it like one.

by ed mendlowitz
the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 practice doctor

question: about a year ago i became the managing partner of my 50-person, six-partner firm. we gross about $7 million. i still maintain my book of business, which is about $1 million, and have 1,000 chargeable hours.

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needless to say, i have been working very hard, about 2,700 total hours, yet my partners are complaining i do not have enough chargeable time and i tend to agree with them. how i can increase my chargeable hours?
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advisory & consulting

when siblings battle over the family business

succession plans can get dicey… for the advisor.

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

someone has to be the boss. when the founder is active, he or she is usually the boss. but what about arents who step aside to have their children run the business? particularly where there is more than one child working in the business?

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i’ve seen some situations where two siblings can run the business as equals. and then, there are other situations where they can’t. what do you do?

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get more done by saying no

who sets your priorities? you.

by ed mendlowitz
the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 practice doctor

question: i do not seem to be able to get everything done that needs to be done and still have time for extras, which i like to do, like marketing and doing new things for clients. any tips?

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answer: this is a recurring theme, and an issue we all have. it seems that we all have the same amount of time but some use it more wisely than others.
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client service opportunities

she wanted her shoebox back

one of the oddest ways i ever lost a client.

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looking at comments, ed mendlowitz seems to have hit a nerve with this piece. 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 readers are reacting with knowing nods and war stories of their own.

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

who would ever think that the most important part of a shoebox with a client’s tax information was the shoebox?

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client service opportunities

tax season is over; now what?

how are you marking this year like no other?

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

i always ended tax season with my office closed the next day. we once gave employees a choice of taking off either the day after or friday after tax season. those who chose the friday said they should have taken off the day after. that day off provided a way to unwind and just be lazy.

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one year, one of my partners, a close friend and i all bought new cars that day. it is a day to clear your mind and come down from a high-performance mentality.
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client service opportunities

when parents, children hit an impasse

four ways to proceed.

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

many family-run businesses have parents and children who perform excellently together, and i have worked with many proud companies. however, occasionally there is a stumbling block, in that a parent and child just cannot get it together. what to do?

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in many small businesses an underperforming employee hurts, and oft times there is a reluctance to get rid of them. they linger on, holding back the company. it is inevitable that they will be gone at some point, but that point seems to be delayed past when it should have been dealt with. biting the bullet is necessary, and when the owners realize they are better off in the long run, they take the necessary step.
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make cpe worth your while

how to make the best choices.

by ed mendlowitz
the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 practice doctor

question: i received a call from an accountant with some questions about a foreign-owned client of his. he had the client for 15 years and seems he did not file a ton of required disclosure forms.

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in the course of our discussion it turns out he never took a cpe program or even read an article on the topic. the question here is why didn’t he?
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client service opportunities

how bickering can ruin a family business

advise without getting in the middle.

by ed mendlowitz
call me before you do anything: the art of accounting

i have had many clients where children work in their parents’ business and have seen a lot of private interactions that shouldn’t have ever occurred, but did.

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you might think the time i saw a father and son punching and wrestling with each other would be the worst, but it wasn’t. the worst are the psychological games parents and children play with each other, many times without the arguing or evident disagreements.
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edward mendlowitz, cpa, abv, pfs, is a partner at withum, a forward-thinking, technology-driven advisory, and accounting firm. ed has over 40 years of public accounting experience, is recognized as one of the top 100 most influential people in accounting by accounting today, and is the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 "practice doctor." his latest handbook for 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 is 77 ways to wow! the handbook for small-business advisory services.

ed is also the author of "memoirs of a cpa," available at amazon.

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"memoirs" tells his story as a cpa and provides an inside look at what cpas do and how they run their accounting "business." cpas must serve clients effectively and exceptionally, recruit, train, retain and grow staff, and charge fees that clients happily pay because of the value they receive while the cpa earns a living, funds a retirement account, grows infrastructure, and perhaps makes a profit. this book tells how he did all of this and much more.

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he is a licensed, certified public accountant in the states of new jersey and new york and is accredited by the american institute of certified public accountants (aicpa) in business valuation (abv), certified in financial forensics (cff) and as a personal financial specialist (pfs). ed is also admitted to practice before the united states tax court and has testified as an expert witness in federal and state court regarding business valuations, and twice at the house ways and means committee on tax reform, fairness, and reduction. a city college of new york graduate, ed earned his bachelor of business administration degree.

he is a member of the aicpa, the new jersey society of certified public accountants (njscpa) and the new york state society of certified public accountants (nysscpa). in addition, ed was a founding partner of mendlowitz weitsen, llp, cpas, which merged with withum in 2005. currently, he serves on the nysscpa estate planning committee and was chairman of the committee that planned the nysscpa’s 100th anniversary. ed, the author of 19 books, has also written hundreds of articles for business and professional journals and newsletters.

he is the contributing editor to the practitioners publishing company’s 706/709 deskbook, the aicpa’s management of an accounting practice handbook, corporate controller’s handbook and wiley’s handbook on budgeting and is on the editorial board of bottom line/personal newsletter and the journal of accountancy member panel on business valuation. appearing regularly on television news programs, ed has also been quoted in numerous major newspapers and periodicals in the united states. he received the lawler award for the best article published in 2001 in the journal of accountancy.

ed frequently speaks to many professional and business groups, including the aicpa, njscpa, nysscpa, american management association, the national committee for monetary reform, the university of medicine and dentistry in n.j., and many more. for 11 years, he taught courses on financial analysis, corporate financial policy and theory, monetary and fiscal policy, and managerial accounting in the mba program at fairleigh dickinson university.

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