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Properly pricing your services should be a high priority. Follow these best practices for setting and managing fees. P Know the costs of providing services. Determine direct costs, allocated overhead and targeted firm profits for each client. Divide the fees collected (or collectible) by the time charges to get your
Assisting Troubled Business Clients: A Midsize Dilemma for CPAs
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Experienced CPAs will often recognize early signs of financial distress when performing routine audits, accounting or tax services for a midsize business. A turnaround requires decisive and confident leadership and a willingness to change. Top management is usually under stress at this point, requiring outside assistance
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Life Cycle Planning for the CPA Practice: Practical Strategies and Forms
As accounting practices grow, they often experience similar milestones. Author Martin Shenkman’s book gives accountants a framework to guide the growth of their practice, providing details needed for careful analysis of major business, tax and planning decisions at every phase. The milestones, and book chapters, are arranged in chronological order
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The SEC’s Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting voted in January to support a slate of preliminary recommendations designed to make the information presented by U.S. public companies more useful to investors while reducing the complexity of the financial reporting system. The preliminary proposals included a call for
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This story follows a fictional accounting firm, C&P, through its journey from dysfunction and slow growth to success. Although not a novel, the authors use a narrative format to teach readers about the Practice Growth Model, a way of looking at the resources needed to achieve effective growth for improved
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SMALL BUSINESS SOX ASSISTANCE www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/404guide.shtml This site features content from the SEC’s Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404—A Guide for Small Business, a publication for small public company managers and their auditors as they begin to assess internal control over financial reporting. Sections such as “What Constitutes Effective Internal
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FASB issued Statement no. 141(R), Business Combinations , and Statement no. 160, Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements . Effective for fiscal years beginning after Dec. 15, 2008, the standards are intended to improve, simplify and internationally converge accounting for business combinations and the reporting of noncontrolling interests
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A Federal Reserve study found that electronic payments, which include debit and credit card, automated clearing house and electronic benefits transfer payments, exceeded two-thirds of the 93.3 billion noncash payments made in 2006. All types of electronic payments grew in popularity and use, while check payments decreased, between 2003 and
Six Steps to XBRL
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY XBRL is reinventing how we transmit and use data in business. XBRL is not just for SEC companies: Small businesses and practitioners alike could soon be using XBRL to submit information to bankers, the IRS, and other agencies. XBRL will become a part of every CPA’s
Discover the Power of Excel 2007
When most users open Office 2007’s Excel—launched with Microsoft’s new Vista operating system—their first reaction is, “ Where’s the file menu? How do I begin?” This article is designed to help you steer through the labyrinth of new and super-powered functions. Even more important, it will show you
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Vendor Management Tips
Selecting the right vendors and properly managing vendor relationships can help protect your company from damages and long-term losses. As more work is outsourced to specialized vendors, companies face greater exposure to fraud, security breaches and the possibility of financial losses. When companies outsource, they are still responsible
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Percentage of workday spent managing e-mail in 2006. For corporate users, this is projected to increase to 41% in 2009. Source: The Radicati Group Inc., www.radicati.com .
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Selecting a Web-based tax research service is not a simple task. Commercial publishers offer a variety of premium and economy plans that can be bundled and priced in many ways. The variations make the selection process especially difficult. Although the basic pricing and services of the products
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