and dozens of possible solutions from staffers…
at a recent staff workshop, there was a brainstorming session to answer some key questions about what constitutes excellence in client service. four questions were placed on the table:
1. how can we make it easier for our clients to do business with us?
corporate hiring plans go from dreary to dismal.
worried by economic crises and gridlocked political systems, about 53% of cfos surveyed by deloitte say they are losing faith in the economic outlook, a dramatic change from 32% in the previous quarter.
millions of “help wanted” ads surveyed and indexed.
indexed to february 2010, the number of open “accountant” jobs has increased 64% and the number of open “cpa” jobs has declined 11%, according to data from simply hired, a job search engine affiliated with 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间. the graph displays the percentage of jobs with the search terms anywhere in the job listing.
industry grows to 926,000 employees nationwide.
the scant month-to-month increase came after a stall during the summer, resuming six months of advances from january through june, according to new and preliminary seasonally-adjusted figures from the department of labor.
european regulators mull drastic action to reform audits.
while the big four have escaped public outrage in the u.s. for the global financial debacle, in europe they’re sharpening the guillotines.
beset by political pressures from failing banks and governments, eurozone regulators are airing a scheme to break up the big four into audit-only firms.
meanwhile, each of the big four has now reported its global revenues, showing a lag in audits and the developed world and a surge in consulting with rapid growth in emerging markets.
fueled by emerging markets and consulting.
with annual worldwide revenue of $29.2 billion, pwc has edged past deloitte to take bragging rights to the no. 1 spot.
and brag they did.
accounting today’s fourth year for the list.
top winners are to be announced at accounting today’s 2nd annual growth & profitability summit on oct. 25-27 in las vegas.
the best accounting firms to work for list includes 50 small firms (15-49 employees), 45 midsized firms (50-249 employees) and five large firms (more than 250 employees).
vault.com ranks accounting firms by “quality of life” issues.
leading the way was elliot davis, which took the top spot in four categories, with withumsmith+brown and deloitte each earning no. 1 rankings in three categories.
s&g financial services took the lead in two categories, and armanino mckenna, pricewaterhousecoopers, and rothstein kass each grabbed one top spot in this year’s rankings.
fbi background checks for some ptin registrants.
the irs is airing proposed rules and user fees for fingerprinting and for taking the new competency examination.
total fees, counting the irs share and corporate contractors doing the work, are expected to be between $60 and $90 for fingerprinting and $100 and $125 for testing.
the irs share of the fingerprinting fee is expected to be $33 and $27 for the test.
maybe the 150-person firm in bellevue, wash., has found a winning formula.
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clark nuber is consistently ranked among one of washington’s best places to work and the firm has an 88 percent retention rate. tracy l. white, sphr, senior director of human resources, shares insights into what it takes to build a dedicated staff:
the painful journey to a new era.
by bruce w. marcus
professional services marketing 3.0
in the years following bates, accounting firms began a long and difficult process of learning how to market.
accountants were still so steeped in the no-commercialization ethic that they tried to resist any form of marketing. they couldn’t, because other firms had started doing it, and were winning clients.