What to stop may be more important than what to do.
By Bill Reeb
Benefit your clients and yourself.
By Ed Mendlowitz
Call Me Before You Do Anything: The Art of Accounting
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Thousands of tax prep shops, bookkeeping companies, CPA firms, and payroll services take emergency loans, promising to save over 200,000 jobs.
By CPA Trendlines Research
Some 6,610 tax, accounting, payroll, and bookkeeping firms have so far received millions of dollars in Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program loans, potentially saving over 210,613 jobs, according to new data obtained by CPA Trendlines Research.
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The leading borrowers have all been CPA firms – each collecting $5 million to $10 million against a promise to save 10,298 jobs, more than half of the entire industry headcount threatened by the pandemic-fueled economic crash.
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BUSY SEASON BAROMETER:
How accountants are battling the Coronavirus recession
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By CPA Trendlines Research
It’s been a hard year for everyone, from pauper to president to tax practitioners. The latter have been triple-whammied by the need to keep clients and employees healthy, the shifting rules and deadlines made to accommodate the lockdown and the staggering, stumbling service of the Internal Revenue … well, Service.
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Let us pause to pity poor Erin M. Collins, who late last year landed a great new job: National Tax Advocate. She replaces Nina Olson, who held that position from 2001 to 2019, bowing out in the nick of time, leaving behind an impressive record of improvements in the American system of tax collection.
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Refunds up, but not by much.
By Beth Bellor
Ever so slowly, the professionals are closing the gap with the DIYers in tax preparation.
MORE: The Mystery of 10 Million Missing Tax Returns | The Tax Season 2020 Dumpster Fire | The Fight for New Tax Clients
The Internal Revenue Service had received 139.9 million individual income tax returns as of the week ending June 26 – the latest data available – down 3.5 percent from the same period in 2019. It had processed 128.5 million returns, down 10.6 percent.
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A totally virtual firm outlines the metrics it uses to measure staffers.
By Jody Grunden
Summit CPA Group
If you want to grow your accounting firm, it’s important to evaluate the effectiveness of your process on a regular basis. You want to be aware of what’s working well and what’s not. You also want to continually be improving upon your services over time.
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There are three things you can specifically monitor when it comes to the effectiveness of your team. Here’s how we do it at Summit CPA Group. Maybe these ideas will work for you too.
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The three key ingredients for success in internal communications.
By Steven E. Sacks
Imagine this: A local reporter or a potential client contacts your firm after visiting your website. What happens next?
MORE: The New COVID-19 Workplace: Are You Prepared? | How to Create Effective Internal Communications | How to Select Your Firm’s Board | Trust Is a Key Organizational Ingredient | Real Influence Vs. Immediate Gratification | Fake It ‘Til You Make It: An Ultimate Goal?today.
With the media and clients clamoring for COVID-Era solutions, it’s happening increasingly often. Here’s how to be prepared.
How to make business development fun, and not a dreaded, anxiety-provoking activity.
BONUS CHECKLISTS with 57 ITEMS: From 15 simple conversation starters to top 5 mistakes.
By Marc Rosenberg
The Rosenberg Practice Management Library
Networking is creating a group of acquaintances and professionals and keeping it active through regular communication for mutual benefit.
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Truthfully, all professional service providers want to be held in high esteem by their clients and professional colleagues. Practicing true professionalism means becoming more than just a vendor who takes and fills orders from a client. It means transitioning into a trusted advisor whose expertise transcends your individual practice. Trusted advisors know the right questions to ask and where to find the right answers.
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Here’s a question: Do you HAVE to renew your lease?
By Steven E. Sacks
If you are a managing partner and are deciding when and how to reopen your office, keeping in mind the safety and well-being of your staff, what steps will you take? More important, do you know whose brains to pick to do the reopening well and properly?
MORE: How to Create Effective Internal Communications | Profit Is Not a Mission | Confronting Leadership: Not Such a Bad Thing | New Opportunities for a ‘New Normal’ | Is Trust Elusive? | Working Remotely Shouldn’t Mean Feeling Isolated | How Engaged Are Your Employees?
Consider who your advisors should be: scientists, doctors, public health officials, interior office design professionals, air-quality professionals and architects.
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