How to make a professional apology
CPAs and business-etiquette experts offer tips on apologizing.
Career Management
Funny CPA Exam stories—and other memories of the test
This column features additional stories about readers' CPA Exam experiences.
Engage your listeners through financial storytelling
CPAs sometimes struggle to hold their audiences’ interest when presenting financial data. Peter Margaritis, CPA, tells CPAs how to use storytelling to make their presentations more compelling.
How accounting employers can recruit and keep good people
Here’s what employers need to do to hire and retain good employees, and what candidates need to do to land a position in a competitive talent market.
One way CPAs give back: The Career Fair Skills Workshop at North Carolina A&T
CPAs volunteer to help students develop the interviewing and résumé-writing skills they need to apply for accounting jobs.
New scams target accounting job seekers
Scammers are trying to obtain the job seekers’ personal and banking information, and in some cases, a cash payment.
7 tips for managing sideways
CPAs need to focus more on connecting with and influencing their management peers, not just the people above and below them.
Get up early and other advice for the CPA Exam
Elizabeth Pittelkow, CPA/CITP, CGMA, director of accounting and compliance at ArrowStream, discusses study tips and the importance of practice exams.
Sweet memories of passing the CPA Exam
Anoop Natwar Mehta, CPA, CGMA, president of Science Systems and Applications Inc., shares memories of passing the CPA Exam.
From ‘wallflower’ to confident leader
Kimberly Hardy, CPA/CFF, designed a mentoring program at Matthews, Cutrer & Lindsay and provides tips for helping firm veterans teach newcomers.
Award recognizes 2016 CPA Exam’s top scorers
Fifty-eight CPA candidates qualified to receive the 2016 Elijah Watt Sells Award, which recognizes outstanding performance on the CPA Examination.
Make sure your CPA traits are assets and not liabilities
This column discusses how CPAs can let certain characteristics shine to their greatest advantage.
Quiz: English expressions that trip up writers
This quiz will give you practice in understanding and using some words or phrases that cause speakers and writers to stumble.
How to encourage candor in your office
This column offers tips for creating an atmosphere where everyone feels free to speak up and criticism is delivered in respectful ways.
How CFOs can reach CEO
Building the right relationships and gaining deep understanding of operations can help finance chiefs move up.
Which superheroes would make the best CPAs?
CPAs offer their take on which superheroes would make great accountants and why.
5 books for CPAs to read on summer vacation
Several CPAs offer their top picks for the best vacation reads.
How to get the most out of conferences
This article looks at ways to make conference attendance pay off by building connections and expanding your network.
5 tips for handling gossip in the workplace
This column offers ways for employees, managers, and firms to deal with gossip.
To my mentors and mentees: Thank you
A top consultant to the accounting profession offers her view on how mentors have helped her career and the key traits great mentors share.
