do latest developments suggest a slow death?
the gimlet-eyed jim peterson was never fooled.
why no-one has called the question on this endless charade reflects the two-level fantasy in the dialog: the iasb and the fasb both pretend to believe in the desirability of fully-converged accounting standards, and the community of financial statement issuers and users pretend to believe them.
there ought to be a law.
our all-time favorite idea for celebrating the end of busy season comes from ann m. menke, a cpa with offices in west point and keokuk, iowa.
her firm is celebrating “national accountants week.”
practitioners close the books on a tough tax season.
granted, it wasn’t as bad as the months and years immediately following the financial crash of 2007. but the reviews are mixed.
what was your season like?
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we’re still sifting through your comments to add it all up. but here are a few:
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from visualizing economics, we see this spectacular depiction of the top marginal tax rates in the u.s., from 1916-2010, for personal income, corporate, and capital gains tax rates:
and many of those who aren’t worried, should be.
almost 40 percent of working americans say they will never afford retirement, which, for the second year in a row, ranks as the nation’s most important financial concern, according to an aicpa survey.
“cross-functional business processes” bedevil finance managers.
a survey of over 800 finance professionals attending an introductory webinar on software-as-a-service staged by netsuite and the institute of management accountants shows that the chief drivers to the cloud are both efficiency and effectiveness.
and why it’s not like selling used cars.
the days when cpas could leave rainmaking to the rainmakers are long gone. today, technical skills aren’t enough. even the most talented cpas must bring in new business to succeed. but it’s about trust and relationships. the same skills you use to do business are the same skills you use to get business. prospects evaluate how you’ll work by how you sell.
here are some tips for building relationships and developing business: read more →
there’s a buzz this tax season about a deepening divide between high performing firms and the rest of the profession — interestingly: especially among soloists.
some solo practitioners are having a terrific season, others not. there’s no in-between. we’ve been wondering about the causes. and practitioners have been answering.
— rick telberg
adapt and grow. or don’t and you won’t.
by alan vitberg
vitberg llc
new rules about marketing and business development are at hand, and firms that adapt early are those that will grow, not unlike their predecessors who capitalized upon transformative changes that occurred over two decades ago.
here’s a “baker’s dozen” of those new rules that can transform your firm’s marketing and business development, and take it to new heights:
