Practice Development
To pay its staff, every business gathers and enters payroll data, calculates wage amounts, prepares checks and pays taxes. Here’s information to help you decide whether becoming a payroll outsource provider could add business to your firm. For sole practitioners and managing partners of small to midsize firms.
Employee Benefits / Small Business / Small Firms
Providing employee retirement accounts is a challenging task for the small business owner. This article offers recommendations for selecting the retirement plans that will best satisfy the unique requirements of each small business. For CPAs in public practice who advise small business owners and CPAs in industry with small business clients.
Compensation and Benefits
Company-sponsored long-term-care insurance is an economical way to protect executives from the high cost of nursing homes. CPAs need to know about coverage. For CPAs who advise employers and clients on employee-benefit options.
Practice Management
Adapting the best practices of global corporations can help CPAs at even small firms and companies find the delicate balance between holding costs down and keeping road warriors productive. For managing partners of small and midsize firms, CFOs and CPAs at small and midsize companies.
Sarbanes-Oxley
This first-person account shows how CPAs can employ the AICPA/CICA Trust Services framework to meet Sarbanes-Oxley’s requirement that management assess internal controls over financial reporting. For CFOs, internal audit executives, financial managers and external auditors.
In Our Opinion
It’s time for FASB to consider allowing CPAs to account for life insurance policies in new ways.
Technology
CPAs often have to manually cobble together clumps of data from disparate sources in varying formats. XBRL’s universal format can help improve efficiency and report quality. For all CPAs.
Special Report
The Institute has developed numerous programs and products to benefit members working with small businesses. For CPAs serving small-business clients.
Technology Workshop
The second of two articles on using Excel to conduct powerful what-if business analyses. For all CPAs.