Professional Development
Executive training programs are booming. Many alternatives are available to CPAs who want to expand their management skills—and enhance their careers.
Practice Management / Staffing
Meeting employees’ need to learn and grow in their work will help you keep them, perhaps even long enough to develop them into partners.
Practice Management / Technology
You don’t have to have big firm resources to take advantage of the latest technology. This article profiles tech tips and strategies small CPA firms can use to enhance their operations.
Case Studies / Education
In the fall of 2001, the board of directors of the Tennessee Society of CPAs established a summer accounting program to attract academically gifted high school juniors and seniors to the accounting profession. Here’s what they learned in four successful years of conducting the program.
Tax
Answering to a higher authority doesn’t exempt houses of worship from also being responsible to the IRS. Even though churches, synagogues and mosques are tax-exempt, they still might have to file a tax return every year.
Case Studies / Practice Management
One of the best ways to get good people is to hire them directly from college. That way you can train staff in the unique aspects of your firm from the very beginning. Here’s how one firm does it.
Auditing
The AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board (ASB) is ensuring that generally accepted auditing standards continue to have the strength and scope necessary for high-quality audits. While PCAOB standards apply to audits of public companies, the ASB standards continue to apply to audits of all other entities.
Technology
Surveys by the Association for Accounting Administrators show that CPA firms big and small are converting many different parts of their operations to paperless electronic processes. The pace of the changeover is mixed in some areas and quickening in others, but on average accountants are using more paperless methods to save time and money.