tax season

卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 forum: tax season prep tips?

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readers’ forum: hours worked. firing clients. setting prices.

chris basom
chris basom
  • chris basom, managing partner of your money matters in mission viejo, calif., wants to know the “one thing you wanted to implement before tax season but just couldn’t get to.”
  • “is cash still relevant?” asked solo practitioner roxann otto of otto tax & accounting services in slinger, wis.
  • charles g. read in the melbourne, fla., area would like to know how other accountants arrive at the charges they present.
  • deborah mcdowell cain of her eponymous firm in fort worth, texas, asked, “does your firm work five, six or seven days a week? is overtime for staff mandatory? are senior staff hourly, salaried, offered overtime or comp time?”
    • and harking back to the busy season, she also asked, “how many people touch a return? why?” read more →

new analysis: tech drives tax season growth

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istock_000019423637smallaccountants gear up, from paperless to cloud.

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many of the most successful accountants in tax season 2014 found new growth and profits by leveraging new cloud and paperless technologies, according to the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer.

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celebrating the end of tax season 2014

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pouring champagne

sound off: marking the end of the busy season

congratulations! you’ve survived another season of long nights, saturday workdays, cranky clients, buggy software and cutthroat competition. now it’s time to party, kick back, relax, reconnect and unplug.

the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer is hearing it all. here are some of our favorite comments from some of our favorite readers…

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tax season success drivers: better software, easier clients, higher billing rates

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sound off: busy season ‘much better’ than last year in client appreciation, software and fees

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better software, well-prepared clients and some fee increases are spelling an improved tax season this year for many practitioners.

the annual 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer shows about 47% of some 1,191 practitioners canvassed in the last 30 days say their season so far is at least “somewhat” or even “much” better than last year’s. on the other hand, about 30% are reporting no change from last year and about 24% say business is “worse” including about 4% who call it “much worse.”

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tax professionals plagued by tough competition

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 sound-off: busy season ‘much’ worse than last year.

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the nation’s tax professionals are heading into the final days of the 2014 season brimming with optimism that all the hard work may be paying off. but the hard work isn’t over yet and it isn’t paying off for everyone.

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when is it the reviewer’s job to fix preparer errors?

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question: your book recommends having the preparer fix all errors. however, this is not always possible and our main concern is to get the returns out, so we usually have the reviewer make the changes, except if it looks like there will be extensive changes. isn’t this the way we should do it?

response: i receive the most comments about this issue, so i usually spend a lot of time rethinking this.

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