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SURVEY RESULTS: The Billion-Dollar Business Hidden in Accounting

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Screen Shot 2014-02-17 at 8.10.54 PMOne-third of U.S. accountants work at home, on their own, moonlighting. Here are their biggest issues and best tips… 

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By Rick Telberg
CPA Trendlines

If you’re reading this at home, or on your own time, you’re not alone. Today more than one-third of accountants are already moonlighting in “side” practices or home offices – especially during busy season, according to a CPA Trendlines survey of almost 800 accountants.

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CPAs Salute the People Who Shaped Their Lives

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Today’s best career advice: join the survey; get the answers.

by Rick Telberg

At 20 years old, the world was a blank canvas with vast opportunities for Sal Inserra. He thought he knew exactly what he wanted in life.

“Until,” he once told me, “I was set straight.”

Like many CPAs, Sal owes much of his career and success to a few key mentors who guided him early on.

Today — as the kids head back to school and college, and as the rest of us wind up our summers and look ahead to the fall — it may be a good time to salute the mentors who help steward a great profession to the next generation. READ MORE →

Top Ten Best Places to Find an Accounting Job

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Finance sector jobless rate falls to 4.7% from recession high 7.7% With the job market strengthening, career opportunities for finance, tax and accounting professionals are widening to places like Seattle and Phoenix, beyond traditional financial industry centers like New York according … Continued

Competitive Economy Weighs on Work-Life Balance

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CPAs share some of their best time-management tips. How hard are YOU working?

by Rick Telberg

With the days of summer rapidly dwindling, accountants and finance managers across the nation are grabbing their last vacation days. But it’s not always easy.

Many finance and accounting professionals are working harder than ever, doing more with less as their organizations cut back with the recession. Balancing life and work becomes all the more difficult and all the more important. So we’ve been asking readers for their best time-management tips for a balanced life.

Here are nine of the best we’ve received so far: READ MORE →

CPA Career Advice Changes with Age

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“Get along with people” is the wisdom of age. But apparently it takes a lifetime to learn that. Retired CPAs are virtually unanimous: The ability to relate to people, get along and communicate are the most important ingredients to a … Continued

27 Tough Questions for Evaluating the Performance of a Managing Partner

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Including: Managing Partner Evaluation Forms, Parts 1 and 2.

By Marc Rosenberg
CPA Firm Management & Governance

This is really an upward evaluation.  Like all upward evaluations, people evaluating the managing partner should be limited to those in a position to offer informed input.  This means that at firms of fewer than 10 to 15 partners all the partners will probably want to participate.  But once a firm gets beyond 10 to 15 partners, an increasing number of partners may not be in a position to respond to the evaluation factors listed in the form.

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Firms with management or executive committees may wish to limit the evaluation to the partners on those committees.

Once you have decided who will be allowed to participate in the evaluation, each partner should complete the evaluation forms.  READ MORE →