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What Tax & Accounting Professionals Are Reading Today
ADVISORY
- How to Handle Difficult CAS Clients
- Jody Padar: The New Playbook Is AI-Powered and Human-Centered | Big 4 Transparency
- Six Vital KPIs for Advisory-CAS Success
- The Anatomy of Client Advisory Engagements
- Fifteen Age-Based Client Milestones to Cover
- Alan Whitman: Breaking the Mold with PE Backing | Holistic Guide
- How Much Risk Do Clients Need?
OUTLOOK & ANALYSIS
- Tax Prep Wages and Salaries Hit 4-Year High
- The 7.6x Machine: How Grassroots Firms Are Taking Private Equity for a Ride
- Unicorns and Funerals: From Botkeeper’s Demise to Basis.ai’s Rise
- Deal Tracker: PE Platforms Accelerate the Grab for CPA Firms
- With Apax Sale, CohnReznick Starts Building a National Platform
- PE Deal Tracker Update: Alan Whitman Plants a Flag in the Private Equity Landscape
- Goldman Bets $75 Million on Fieldguide: AuditTech Comes of Age
STAFFING & RECRUITING
- Tax Prep Wages and Salaries Hit 4-Year High
- Carrie Steffen: The Staffing Problem Nobody Talks About | MOVE Like This
- Why the Next Generation May Be Accounting’s Greatest Competitive Advantage | SLC
- Employee Experience Not What It Seems
- AJ Johnson: New CPA Licensure Pathway Opens Doors to Talent | Gear Up for Growth
- Three Ways to Measure Your Team’s Effectiveness
- How Workflow Helps Transfer Clients to New Employees
GROWTH STRATEGIES
- Five Steps to Your Balanced Millionaire Journey
- Client Trust Begins with Onboarding
- Cultivate Holistic Wealth with the SHiFT Framework
- Stephanie Otero: Your Firm, Your Way | Gear Up for Growth
- The Six Stages of 401(k) Audits
- Build Exit Strategy into Your Business Strategy
- Get Your Fees Faster This Tax Season
PAY & COMPENSATION
- Tax Prep Wages and Salaries Hit 4-Year High
- Jeremy Dubow: Raising the Bar for Talent | Big 4 Transparency
- Busy Season 2026: IRS Problems, Staffing Issues and Client Wrangling Emerge as Top Pressures
- Outlook 2026: The Painful Paradigm Shift in Staff Pay and Hiring
- Outlook 2026: Can Tax & Accounting Payrolls Keep Surging to New Highs?
- Cornerstone Report: CPA Billing Rates, Tax Return Fees, and Client Accounting Pricing at CPA Firms | 2026
- Starting Salaries in Accounting Must Rise
INNOVATION & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
- AI Shows the Weak Faster than It Helps the Strong | Accounting Voices
- Dunn: Time’s the Wrong Growth Metric | Gear Up For Growth
- Whitman: New Firm Deals: Flexibility, Culture, and the Rise of “31 Flavors” | Holistic Guide to Wealth Management
- AI’s Already in Your Workflow…| It’s Not Just the Numbers
- Baker: Transformation Economy Will Redefine Accounting | Gear Up For Growth
- When Tax Meets AI, Savvy Tax Pros Turn to ‘Tax Platforms 2026’
- The CAS Bottleneck No One Talks About | It’s Not Just the Numbers
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
- Five Can’t-Skip Steps for Due Diligence
- The PE Takeover: Audit Problem? What Audit Problem?
- Valuing More Than the Balance Sheet | ARC
- The 7.6x Machine: How Grassroots Firms Are Taking Private Equity for a Ride
- How to Merge Two Solo Accountants
- With Apax Sale, CohnReznick Starts Building a National Platform
- Thirteen Things to Ask in a Merger of Equals
STAFFING & RECRUITING
- Tax Prep Wages and Salaries Hit 4-Year High
- Carrie Steffen: The Staffing Problem Nobody Talks About | MOVE Like This
- Why the Next Generation May Be Accounting’s Greatest Competitive Advantage | SLC
- Employee Experience Not What It Seems
- AJ Johnson: New CPA Licensure Pathway Opens Doors to Talent | Gear Up for Growth
- Three Ways to Measure Your Team’s Effectiveness
- How Workflow Helps Transfer Clients to New Employees
SUCCESSION & RETIREMENT
- It’s Time to Think about Your Exit Strategy
- Daiber: Use Succession as a Growth Strategy | The Disruptors
- Whitman: New Firm Deals: Flexibility, Culture, and the Rise of “31 Flavors” | Holistic Guide to Wealth Management
- Haylett: Redefine Success in Retirement | Holistic Guide to Wealth Management
- Pirolli: You Can’t “Declare” Independence — You Have to Earn It | Gear Up For Growth
- Fifteen Merger Terms You Can’t Ignore
- Jeremy Vokt: Why Bland & Associates Said “No” to Private Equity and “Yes” to ESOPs | MOVE Like This
TALENT & CAREER DEVELOPMENT
- Doubling Up Leads to New Opportunities
- Carrie Steffen: The Staffing Problem Nobody Talks About | MOVE Like This
- Why the Next Generation May Be Accounting’s Greatest Competitive Advantage | SLC
- Employee Experience Not What It Seems
- The Master Key to Business Development
- Accounting’s “Untalked-About” Frontier | ARC
- AJ Johnson: New CPA Licensure Pathway Opens Doors to Talent | Gear Up for Growth
TAX RESOLUTION
- Adjei: Profit from IRS Representation | The Concierge CPA
- Can DOGE and Palantir Fix the IRS with a ‘Mega API’?
- Five Million IRS Refunds Delayed by Staff Cuts
- IRS Phone Stats Improve—Unless You’re a Tax Pro
- ‘Kryptonite:’ IRS Buried under 8 Million Paper Returns
- Mounting Delays Undermine Public Trust in IRS Refund Process
- Brace Yourself: IRS 25% Staff Cuts Mean Big Trouble for Tax Pros and Clients
THE VIRTUAL CFO
- Client Trust Begins with Onboarding
- The Six Stages of 401(k) Audits
- Four Financial Metrics to See Your Firm’s True Picture
- Four Options for Billing Clients
- Three Ways to Measure Your Team’s Effectiveness
- How Workflow Helps Transfer Clients to New Employees
- Best Practices for Choosing Workflow Management Software
WEALTH MANAGEMNT
- All Ages Can Benefit from Trust and Estate Planning
- Four Misconceptions about Annuities and Insurance
- Fifteen Age-Based Client Milestones to Cover
- How Much Risk Do Clients Need?
- What a Wealth Advisor Is Worth
- Nick Pasquarosa: From Door-to-Door Bookkeeping to a 1,000-Client Cloud Firm | Holistic Guide
- Subscriptions Make Clients Feel Like Members