what aspiring accountants need to know
the five keys to kick-starting new careers they don’t teach in college.
by steven sacks
neithetechnology nor accounting are the most important factors.
leadership
managing people: the heart of effective project management
remember, bad clients crowd out good ones.
by frank stitely
the relentless cpa
somewhere in the period between the neanderthals and homo sapiens, the first accountant evolved.
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he looked around and realized this earth thing might become immensely profitable and set out to get capital gains treatment.
keep your firm from biting the dust
checklist: the 12 key objectives and 23 day-to-day responsibilities of successful managing partners.
by domenick j. esposito
8 steps to great
while there are lots of reasons why small and midsized cpa firms don’t realize their full potential – and, in some situations, fail or bite the dust – we have found that the downward spiral of a firm usually starts with the managing partner.
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the managing partner is the heart and soul of any cpa firm – the shepherd, orchestra leader, or quarterback, if you prefer, of the partner group – who didn’t fully understand the key objectives and day-to-day responsibilities of his or her role, and therefore, failed to operate on all cylinders.
a leader’s guide to ending entitlement
summer reading list
reviving work ethic: a leader’s guide to ending entitlement and restoring pride in the emerging workforce
by steven sacks
rapid change and uncertainty is causing an epidemic of chronic stress at tax and accounting firms these days. author eric chester may have some of the answers.
workflow for dummies
so you can quickly tell when a delay is the client’s fault. plus: the 12-step tax return and 8-step writeup workflows.
by frank stitely
the relentless cpa
let’s play buzzword bingo. i’ll go first: workflow.
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workflow is the cpa firm buzzword of the decade. every vendor leech trying to suck the life out of your bank account drops this term, and in so doing, workflow now means everything and nothing at all. marketers have so devalued the term that we shouldn’t be surprised that no one has an effective workflow, because no one knows what it is. let’s flush the confusion.
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