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Communication skills
How to manage underperformers
In order to ensure that you are engaging the best and the brightest employees in the firm, you must learn to handle and manage the underperformer.
7 communication tips for new tax managers
These tips can help managers provide effective coaching and feedback to less-experienced tax preparers during busy season.
Manager Survival Series: The chronically late or absent employee
This article offers tips on to how to handle the chronically late or absent professional employee in the typical workplace.
Essential questions new partners need to ask themselves
What partners focus on during their first hundred days can set the tone for the rest of their career.
Building trust with your team
Improving trust among team members could be the answer to an organization’s talent-related challenges.
How CPAs can start their own business
An accounting background provides a helpful leg up for entrepreneurs or those who want to invest in an existing business.
CPA exam evolving to reflect shift in skills requirements
Changes in the nature of the work performed by newly licensed CPAs have led to proposed changes to the content of the Uniform CPA Examination.
How to prevent death by PowerPoint
Communications consultant Steve Bustin outlines the secrets of an effective presentation.
You made partner: Now what?
Becoming a partner requires a shift in mindset from employee to business owner. Young partners share what they’ve learned about being leaders, setting goals, developing others, and adjusting to new roles.
40 tips for taking control of the meeting room
The event planners or facility staff will typically set the facility according to their preferences, but as the presenter, you should review their efforts, and make any adjustments necessary to better accommodate your audience and deliver the best possible presentation.
Go ahead, take the stage
For many professionals, public speaking is a dreaded task. The reality, however, is that CPAs often are called to the front of the room, whether it’s to present at a board of directors meeting or speak at a conference or other event. This article presents dozens of tips to help CPAs shine in the public speaking spotlight.
Expanded role requires expanded skills
CFOs say that by developing the right skills, finance professionals can drive their organizations to conquer the growing complexity and deliver growth.
The leading edge: Tips from the AICPA Leadership Academy
What does it take to be a great leader? What are the keys to inspiring and guiding others to maximize their potential? This article looks at five lessons learned at the AICPA Leadership Academy.
Critical skills needed for finance to cut through complexity
The roles of finance professionals are expanding at a fast pace in a constantly changing global economic environment, new AICPA research shows, creating an urgent need for accounting and finance professionals to grow their skills. An overwhelming majority (85%) of CPAs who participated in a recent survey said the role
Raising rainmakers
This article proposes a series of strategies firms can follow to cultivate their young CPAs’ business development identity and the skills needed to go with it.
A leadership tutorial from education innovator Sal Khan
Sal Khan’s story has many of the markings of a classic Silicon Valley narrative. Khan, an investment analyst working in Boston at a hedge fund, in 2004 began using Yahoo Doodle and phone calls to tutor a faraway cousin struggling with math. That evolved into posting simple video lessons on
The leadership cycle: How to enable collective leadership
James Quigley, CPA, was CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. from 2007 to 2011. He retired from Deloitte LLP in June 2012, after 38 years with Deloitte. He serves as a trustee of the IFRS Foundation and is co-author of the 2011 book As One: Individual Action, Collective Power, which
The leadership cycle: The 10 C’s of great leaders
Allan Koltin, CPA, is CEO of Koltin Consulting Group, a Chicago-based consultancy that works with financial and professional services firms in the areas of practice management, mergers and acquisitions, executive search, and practice growth. Recognized as among the most influential thought leaders in the accounting profession, Koltin frequently is quoted
Cultivating leadership
Most CPAs promoted to leadership positions get there because of their technical skills and professional prowess. In many cases, however, the same CPAs have not been prepared to act as leaders. The following steps show what employers can do to cultivate leadership skills. Emphasize business acumen, curiosity, and strategic sensibility
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