Howard Cox (pictured), CPA, CMA, CIA, has started a blog for his firm, Somerset CPAs in Indianapolis, that shuns the usual tax and accounting advice. Instead, he positions “Somerset Business Success Strategies” as “Your playbook for creating happiness and building … Continued
Another kind of “data dump” Stunned shoppers couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw 20 to 30 garbage bags filled with confidential client files spilling out of an accounting firm’s front door onto the sidewalk.
“Practicing professionals have a 15 to 25 percent chance of being sued during the course of their career, ” says Wilhelm Dingler, an attorney in the professional liability department of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin in Philadelphia. And mostly … Continued
Independence issues cited. Brown Smith Wallace, a St. Louis firm with 66 CPAs and 200 staffers, is letting its three-member technology services group join local tech consultants SSE, bringing SSE up to 75 staffers. Brown Smith Wallace formed its IT … Continued
CPA firm consultant Allan Boress asserts that part of the reason that the profession has difficulty retaining people is that we fail to embrace higher values. Lawyers do it with “pro bono” work. But in accounting, “pro bono” is “accounting-ese … Continued