Online Accountant
You want to have a Web site, but you dont know how to build one that will attract potential clients. CPAs and other consultants offer advice on design, content and cost.
Assurance Services
This is the second in a series of four articles that highlight findings and suggestions from the report of the special committee on assurance services. This article uses the new assurance service of providing business performance measurement to illustrate how to survey and respond to market demands in developing new business. Case Study: Benchmarking at Moss Adams.
Practice Management
Technical excellence is only the first step in keeping clients satisfied. To sustain and build their practices, accountants also must be able to communicate with their clients successfully. This article provides five key suggestions to help make business writing vigorous and clear.
Technology
A letter from your state board informs you a complaint has been filed by one of your clients, another CPA firm or a third-party user. Here's how to handle the complaint in a systematic and professional manner.
Professional Issues
Dennis Beresford considers the future of financial accounting and the FASB's relationship with the SEC, the AICPA and CPAs generally. He gives the profession the benefit of his unique perspective on issues ranging from derivatives to the Internet.
Business / Industry
Corporate purchase cards can save a company money and time and, as a bonus, improve procedures for budgeting, accounts payable, purchasing and general accounting.
Personal Financial Planning
When choosing funds, CPAs need to understand the various statistical measures of risk. Knowing how to interpret them will make it easier to help clients reach their investment goals.
Tax / Personal Financial Planning
Tax-sheltered limited partnerships are no longer the favorite of Wall Street or individual investors. Various tax and financial factors contributed to the downfall of these once popular investments.