A top consultant to the accounting profession offers her view on how mentors have helped her career and the key traits great mentors share.
Human capital
The business reasons to take a vacation
Organizations can benefit from encouraging employees to take time away from work.
How implementing value pricing can help your staff get more done
Value pricing can help staff get more done because billing by the hour can remove incentives to work efficiently.
What you need to know as Gen Z enters the workforce
The first members of Generation Z are graduating from college and entering the workforce. And it would be a big mistake to expect them to behave like Millennials.
How firms can help employees obtain their CPA license
This column offers tips on supporting employees through the exam process.
What makes workers stay
This column looks at the three main causes of turnover across industries.
How firms find skilled staff during a hiring boom
firms need to take different approaches to market themselves to attract CPAs.
Theresa Richardson, CPA
Theresa Richardson, CPA, is a partner and the chief talent officer at WithumSmith+Brown. As chief talent officer, she reports directly to the firm’s CEO and oversees all aspects of talent.
Rethinking retention
Retention expert Chason Hecht says employee retention requires tapping into employees’ need for connectedness, challenge, and fulfillment.
SoulCycle: An intentional focus on culture
Weekly staff meetings and town hall-style meetings allow employees in the corporate office in New York City to ask honest questions and get a response.
ESOPs help some CPA firms with retention, succession
Some profitable firms have found that employee stock ownership plans have helped them preserve their culture and provide stability.
GMLCPA: Cross-training
CEO and founder Gabrielle Luoma, CPA, CGMA, cross-trains her staff so they understand both their own and their co-workers’ roles.
BNA: A completely flat hierarchy
At first glance, you might take Rock Hill, S.C.-based CPA firm BNA for a tech startup.
Innovation showcase: CPA employers on the cutting edge
Completely virtual workplaces. Flat hierarchies. Employees who set their own hours. Vacation stipends. Silicon Valley? Not quite. Meet seven employers that have radically rethought the ways they relate to their CPAs and are reinventing the accounting workplace.
ClearPath Accountants: Transparent financials
Transparency and ownership are the bywords at Denver-area firm ClearPath Accountants.
High Rock Accounting: Vacation stipends
Would you like $1,000 to go on vacation this year? It’s yours at High Rock Accounting, but there’s a catch.
IntrapriseTechKnowlogies: Employees set their hours
Forty hours may be a standard work-week—but there’s no such thing as a “standard” CPA.
Q&A: Don’t believe these Millennial myths
Generational expert Jason Dorsey recommends ways employers can recruit (and keep) members of the often-misunderstood Millennial generation.
Frank, Rimerman and Co.: A coaching culture
At California firm Frank, Rimerman and Co., coaching permeates the entire culture.
How firms can overcome challenges and develop a diverse workforce
Recruiting a diverse workforce can be a challenge for CPA firms outside the Big Four, but it can be overcome with a commitment to building relationships.
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