SURVEY RESULTS: Busy? Time Is the Solution, Not the Problem

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By CPA Trendlines Research

Hey, just because you get a nice new watch for Christmas doesn’t mean you’re going to have more time when busy season rolls around. Quite to the contrary, it’s only going to tell you how little time you have.

Time is what busy’s all about. So if you can manage time, you can manage busy. And if you manage time well enough –  better than last busy season – then maybe next busy season will be more of a breeze-through season. Or at least not a pound-head-on-wall season.

The 2015 CPA Trendlines Busy Season Survey asked a good question: “What are your best time management tips for busy season?”

And we got some good answers. The survey turned up all sorts of uncontrollable problems, from the complexity of the Affordable Care Act to the recalcitrance of computers. But of all the stuff that happened, time was the one that everyone could a) predict and b) manage a little better.