Daily Archives: April 26, 2011

10 Global Mega-Trends for This Year’s Partner Retreat

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As busy season ebbs into memory and accounting firms start looking toward the future, top managers will be confronting a host of difficult issues.

by Rick Telberg

Many of the most pressing issues are close to home — winning a few more big clients, nurturing succession, finding adequate capital to reinvest in the business. Some other issues, however, may seem more abstract. They are, to be sure, no less real.

A host of global trends are conspiring to make this year’s retreat season just that much more complicated for accounting firm leaders.

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Accountant Job Confidence Dips

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Although workers gain confidence in the economy, more see job opportunities narrowing.

Job confidence among U.S. accounting and finance workers dropped 4.0 points to 52.1 in the first quarter of 2011, according to Mergis Group, the SFN-owned placement agency.

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