Daily Archives: June 4, 2013

What’s Next in CPE?

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Bob Jennings
Bob Jennings

The live, in-person seminar reborn, refashioned for the Web.

By Bob Jennings
Jennings Seminars

In the roughly forty years since continuing professional education first started for accountants, there have been three major changes in the way to obtain CPE.

The first major change came from the presentations of the venerable Sidney Kess, who brought practicality and examples to an arena that had previously been occupied by pedantic and often academic educators. In the early years of CPE his shining light of the highest quality CPE was held to be the pinnacle for all other presenters.

The next era became the era of boredom. READ MORE →

What Partners Don’t Tell Staffers about Clients

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By Jean Caragher Since strong client relationships contribute to client satisfaction, longevity and lead generation, partners often encourage their managers and staff to build relationships with their clients. But these managers and staff look at the relationships their firm’s partners … Continued

Trends in Temporary Staffing

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Rationalizing a broken system and recapturing two-thirds of lost value.

Dan Gaffney
Dan Gaffney

With CPA firms and corporations rushing to staff up with a suddenly warming economy, finance and accounting employment agencies are booming. But it can’t last. Sooner, rather than later, the internet will change everything.

Dan Gaffney, a CPA, CIA, CISA and a 20-year audit veteran, in both public accounting and in corporate, is positioning himself to take advantage of the paradigm shift. He’s out to revolutionize the finance and accounting temp business.

His Chicago-based incubation-stage start-up, Vouchedin.com, is seeking to do to short-term staffing placements what Monster did to newspaper classifieds and what Apple did to the recording industry: leverage the internet to cut out the middleman, re-channeling profits to both the worker and the employer. It could change a big part of the accounting profession as well. – The Editors READ MORE →

Value, Billem & Dunn: A Value Billing Case Study

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Frank Stitely, CPA, CVA, and the Managing Member of Stitely & Karstetter CPAs, likes to stir things up – especially when it concerns the intersection of timesheets and value pricing. Here’s a piece of fiction (we assume) that he titles…

– The Editors

CPA Firm Nightmares

by Frank Stitely

In this week’s show, my brother and famed practice management consultant, Gordon Stitely, visits the venerable firm, Value, Billem, and Dunn.  VB&D managing partner Bob Cratchett took over the firm when founding partner Izzy Dunn died unexpectedly after jamming an RJ45 cable into an electrical socket.  Cratchett knew he had to modernize the firm, and he started by banishing timesheets.

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The Problem with Frank Stitely?

When he left his previous employer, Scrooge & Associates, P.C., he vowed never to sell time again.  He would sell knowledge.  He hired a value billing consultant to implement a new business model that eschewed timesheets in favor of trusting employees, since costs will always take care of themselves.

Here comes Gordon striding into Cratchett’s office. READ MORE →