Balancing work and parenting when everyone’s home

Here’s how several CPAs are dealing with the challenges of being a stay-at-home parent and a work-from-home employee at the same time.

Make the last day of class meaningful

Ending a course on a bright note can leave your students with a positive impression of your class and reinforce key concepts they’ve learned.

Redesign your final exams to truly promote learning

Try these tips to put together a final exam that helps students retain more, improves their study habits, and encourages them to practice critical thinking.

Use Excel PivotTables to quickly analyze grades

Use Excel PivotTables to quickly analyze grades Want to quickly sort the data in your Excel gradebook by category, such as section number or teaching assistant’s name? PivotTables let you view this data with ease.

How mentorship and sponsorship build your career

Understanding the ways mentorship and sponsorship are distinct can help you get the most out of these relationships.

Making a good impression on a new boss

Getting off on the right foot with a new boss can set the tone for your working relationship.

Succeeding despite adversity: 3 CPAs' stories

Three CPAs who refused to give up their dreams describe how they kept going through difficult times and the lessons they learned.

Use Excel’s AutoSum button to add up rows and columns with just one click

Want to quickly add up rows or columns of data in your gradebook (or elsewhere)? The AutoSum function makes it easy.

How to get started making videos for your classes

Video-savvy faculty present their best tips and techniques for shooting your own educational videos.

An online pivot can be an opportunity

A faculty member reconfigured her finance class in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis to teach soft skills.

A call for honest leadership

In this time of transformation and innovation, honesty and transparency in leadership are important to motivate staff and create an environment where people feel safe.

How to achieve partner unity

When partners are on the same page, firms propel forward, as opposed to remaining stagnant.

How to accept feedback gracefully

This article discusses ways to make getting criticism feel more productive and less personal.

New options for small business bankruptcies

Changes went into effect in February to ease the burden for smaller businesses seeking relief through the bankruptcy process.

How to use feedback as fuel

Leaders should understand not only how to provide effective feedback but how to receive it as well.

10 real reasons to go (and stay) remote

This article explores the reasons firms should move to remote work management on an ongoing basis and why resisting remote work and service delivery can place a firm at a competitive disadvantage.

Talk to tax clients about what’s really on their minds

A CPA discusses how best to present additional services to tax clients without coming off as pushy or aggressive.

Top cyberthreats targeting accounting firms

An expert outlines three of the top external cyberthreats accounting firms face and provides pointers on how to reduce a firm’s risk of becoming a victim.

Finding the fun in entry-level accounting

These creative approaches show students accounting is not that intimidating.

Sort by color to group highlighted cells in Excel

Highlighting cells with different colors can help you quickly identify information in a spreadsheet. Excel also lets you sort by color to easily group all the information you’ve highlighted with a given color. Learn how.