Monthly Archives: February 2017

Five ways to make staffers feel like stars.

By Marc Rosenberg
On Staffing

Partners have it great. They:

1. Function as entrepreneurs
2. Love the freedom and flexibility of being a business owner
3. Have clients who love them and vice versa
4. Do work that is challenging and interesting
5. Have staff to delegate work to
6. Mentor young people
7. Have tenure, just like professors (well, not officially)
8. They make great money, way more than they ever thought
9. They have almost no accountability (pardon the sarcasm!)

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The stress of partners’ jobs sometimes causes them to forget they have such a great gig. But when partners stand back and think of what they have going for them, they see how nice the big picture is.
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Includes criteria for promotion to the next level.

By Marc Rosenberg
On Staffing

Let’s address the four most common positions at a CPA firm: staff, senior, manager and partner.

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There is no such thing as a standard job description for these four positions. Each firm must define them in ways that make sense for its specific situation. If ever there were job descriptions that should have flexibility built into them, most certainly they would be CPA firm positions because the expectations vary as much by the type of assignments they are given as by their title.
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