MANAGEMENT

Why MAP Programs Are Worth Your Time

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There’s more than CPE to consider.

By Ed Mendlowitz
Call Me Before You Do Anything: The Art of Accounting

I attend Management of Accounting Practice (MAP) CPE programs. In many instances these do not qualify toward the mandatory CPE requirements. Who cares?

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I go because I want to make more money, work more effectively, service clients better, excite and retain staff, and have more fun doing what I love to do and have to do anyway.
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Doubling Up Leads to New Opportunities

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Tales of a first trainee.

By Ed Mendlowitz
Call Me Before You Do Anything: The Art of Accounting

I was fortunate early on in my career that I had a boss who gave me responsibility to supervise. On some level I was not really instructed how to supervise, but was told I could use the new person to help me get my work done.

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This was precipitated by an email I received from the first person ever I supervised. I had not spoken to him since working with him in 1968. He emailed me because he read one of my columns and just wanted to say hello. I remembered him and then I recalled how I got started training him – he was the first person I trained.
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Employee Experience Not What It Seems

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The years didn’t add up.

By Ed Mendlowitz
Call Me Before You Do Anything: The Art of Accounting

We hired Sam out of school and he worked for us for two and a half years and then we split up our firm. This was ages ago and Sy and I left our third partner to form our new firm on Jan. 1.

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However, there is a valuable lesson here and I think it is worth sharing. It changed the way we hired staff.
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Eleven Ways to Help Tax Clients Help You

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Clear instructions make your tax season easier.

By Ed Mendlowitz
Tax Season Opportunity Guide

Providing instructions of what a client needs to do must be clear enough so that the client doesn’t call you to find out what to do.

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Sometimes taking an extra minute to lay out what the client should do can eliminate that call or indecisive moment a client might feel.
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