Today’s Top Trending Topics
What Tax & Accounting Professionals Are Reading Today
CLIENT OPPORTUNITIES
- Make Distinctive Service a Process
- AI’s Already in Your Workflow…| It’s Not Just the Numbers
- Six Ways to Get Better Financial Information
- Your Client Hired a New Manager; Now What?
- Make Clients Part of Your CAS Team | It’s Not Just the Numbers
- Ten Ways to Help Tax Clients Stay Organized | Listicle
- Simone: Financial Planning’s Most Overlooked Piece | Holistic Guide to Wealth Management
BUSY SEASON
- Give Tax Clients Better Instructions
- Hansen: No One’s Too Rich for a Backdoor Roth | The Concierge CPA
- When Tax Meets AI, Savvy Tax Pros Turn to ‘Tax Platforms 2026’
- 1099 Chaos Averted? | Quick Tax Tip
- Five Procedures to Simplify Your Tax Season
- Get Ready Before It Gets Busy: Dec. 10 Webinar with Accounting ARC
- IRS Set for a Turbulent 2026 Season as TIGTA Flags Persistent Weaknesses
MARKETING & SALES
- Bissett Bullet: Find Common Ground
- The Four Steps of the Personal Marketing Process
- It’s Not Selling, It’s Service
- Bissett Bullet: Expertise Is Too Valuable to be Given Away for Free
- Eleven Marketing Strategies for Smaller Firms
- Green: Why Clients Quit You | Big 4 Transparency
- Get Your Personal House in Order
OUTLOOK & ANALYSIS
- Tech, Talent, Advisory Will Fuel Growth
- 2026 Outlook: Why Small Firms, PE Giants, and the Middle Are Headed in Different Directions
- The 8 Mega Trends Every CPA Needs to Understand before 2026
- Commitment to Transformation Is Key
- Four Strategic Fronts for Accounting Firms
- Starting Salaries in Accounting Must Rise
- When Tax Meets AI, Savvy Tax Pros Turn to ‘Tax Platforms 2026’
PAY & COMPENSATION
- Starting Salaries in Accounting Must Rise
- Stay or Go? Rethink Job Hopping | Accounting Influencers
- Use Smart Compensation to Drive Partner Performance
- The $100,000 H-1B Shock: What It Means for Accounting Talent
- CPA Pricing Power Falters as Salaries March Upward
- Most Tax and Accounting Firms Are Relying on Pay Raises in a Losing Battle for Talent
- Longobardi: Governance, Growth, & the PE Playbook | Big 4 Transparency
SURVEYS & RESEARCH
- 2026 Outlook: Why Small Firms, PE Giants, and the Middle Are Headed in Different Directions
- The 8 Mega Trends Every CPA Needs to Understand before 2026
- When Tax Meets AI, Savvy Tax Pros Turn to ‘Tax Platforms 2026’
- Hopson: Stop Turnover Before It Starts | Know-How Korner
- IRS Set for a Turbulent 2026 Season as TIGTA Flags Persistent Weaknesses
- The IPA Top 500: When Bigger Isn’t Better, Firms Get Smarter.
- How Accountability Drives Firm Success
CLIENT ACCOUNTING SERVICES
- AI’s Already in Your Workflow…| It’s Not Just the Numbers
- Why Usability Matters So Much in Advisory-CAS
- Clients Need Relevance in Your Advice
- The CAS Bottleneck No One Talks About | It’s Not Just the Numbers
- Why Policies, Processes, and Procedures Make or Break CAS | It’s Not Just the Numbers
- Advice Must be Timely to be Valuable
- Build Stronger CAS Teams & Smarter Client Relationships | It’s Not Just the Numbers
INNOVATION & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
- 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
- PE Pushes Partners Toward Extinction | Accounting Influencers
- Meihaus: The Courage to Say “Enough” at the Top | Gear Up For Growth
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
- Eight Questions for Assessing Merger Compatibility
- Smaller, Larger Accounting Firms Have Different M&A Concerns
- Letters of Intent Require More Than ‘Good Faith’
- Maksymiw: Kick the “Should” Out of Your Career | Big 4 Transparency
- Beware Potential LOI Issues
- Think About This Before Issuing a Letter of Intent
- PE Deal Tracker: 118 Deals Build $30 Billion in New Value
SUCCESSION & RETIREMENT
- 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
- Succession Takes the Driver’s Seat in Private Equity Boom
- Carl Peterson: Succession or Stagnation? | 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
- What’s the ROI on That Shiny New Thing?
- Five Questions to Ask about New Tech Tools
- The CAS Bottleneck No One Talks About | It’s Not Just the Numbers
- Creative Perks Your Remote Employees Will Appreciate
- Traditional Benefits to Offer Remote Employees
- Retention Doesn’t Mean Keeping Everyone Forever
- Ten Questions for Potential New Hires
WEALTH MANAGEMNT
- Overcome Your Three Biggest Tech Adoption Fears
- Hansen: No One’s Too Rich for a Backdoor Roth | The Concierge CPA
- How to Offer a Virtual Family Office
- Stein Smith: Blockchain, AI, and the Future of Advisory | Holistic Guide to Wealth Management
- Attract Talent with an Integrated Model
- Seven Focuses for Your Firm’s Evolution
- Haylett: Redefine Success in Retirement | Holistic Guide to Wealth Management