Communication and creativity pay off
A creative agency shares how a new workflow structure helped keep productivity high and interactions smooth while working remotely.
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How Stack Overflow raised millions while working remotely
This article discusses how one tech firm's team managed to raise $85 million in investor funding while working remotely during the pandemic.
Trust and technology keep productivity up during pandemic
One company discusses how it found a way to magnify the strengths of remote work by employing a more informal check-in style and building on technology’s democratizing effects.
Technology lessons from the pandemic — and beyond
The upheaval of the coronavirus crisis caused the accounting profession to turn to technology like never before. Our technology roundtable discusses what was learned — and what the future holds.
How CPAs can make the most of their tech resources
New technologies provide opportunity, but growing threats pose increased risk. What can CPAs do? Our accounting technology experts offer their advice in the second part of the JofA’s annual round table.
Experts warn of cybersecurity ‘storm’: Technology round table, part 2
In the second of two parts, the tone at the fourth annual JofA accounting technology round table turns tense as the experts discuss the cybersecurity vulnerabilities they see in the accounting profession.
Teaching for the Love of It
nce they earn their college degrees and embark on careers, many CPAs are perfectly happy never to see the inside of a classroom again. But others can’t wait to return. What happens when they follow their hearts and minds back to campus? To find out, we interviewed eight professionals—seven CPAs
Give Your Skills a CAT Scan
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PRACTITIONERS CAN USE the AICPA Competency Self-Assessment Tool (CAT) to evaluate which professional performance areas they need to strengthen to refine skills for their present jobs or train for positions they aspire to. Firms and companies can purchase it as a multiuser tool to help with staff development
Off the Beaten Path
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CPAs CAN USE THEIR UNDERSTANDING of business structures, familiarity with financial reports and disciplined, analytic thinking to succeed at other endeavors. Those who have launched alternative or auxiliary careers emphasize the resources being a CPA can offer. A SELDOM-TOUTED ASSET OF BEING A CPA, particularly in public practice,
What You Really Need
While technical innovation continues at breakneck speed, wise computer users would do well to pause before hurrying to buy the latest computer, software or gadget that hits the market. Some of the new gear is essential, but many new products add little or nothing to CPAs' productivity. The goal of
What to expect
What to expect from the IRS this year. From The Tax Adviser: Examining the 1997 Examination Program T he Internal Revenue Service, like most other government agencies, has to tighten its budget while trying to achieve more goals and objectives. CPAs and their taxpayer clients can get an idea of
