the secret to making millennials more efficient

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five good reasons to let them make their own hours.

by drew carrick

what i am about to say might cause you to break into absolute hysteria.  depending on whom you are,  you will either: share and embrace, or smear and critique. my intention is not to demand a change in the working world, but rather to stimulate a cultural conversation that can change the way we work.

employees should be able to make their own hours.

are you crazy, drew? nobody would ever work then!

well, while that may be your first thought, let me explain my thought process. read more →

accodex sets up a platform for practice management

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the goal: admit new partners without bottlenecks.

by kayleigh padar

chris hooper, the ceo and managing partner of accodex, recently redesigned the firm’s business model to respond to clients’ changing accounting needs. the firm operates in four areas: the united states, the united kingdom, australia and the philippines. it is made up of over 50 employees.

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“i started with a small practice in 2011 in australia,” hooper said. “it was 100 percent cloud, fixed fee, global from the get-go. there wasn’t really a need to change those fundamentals.”
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happy tax: why you need to know its name

fixing the broken retail tax prep model.

by kayleigh padar

what if tax cpas charged labor for a platform and were not even a firm, but part of a franchise and technology play?

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this is the story of happy tax. and it is changing the nature of our business as we know it.
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survey: new tax law inflicts new pains on busy season practitioners

blame the clients.

by rick telberg
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change and uncertainty are constants in the tax prep business, and this year’s busy season indicates no exception. this tended to be a good year, according to the annual 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer, with a majority of america’s cpas foreseeing a better than average busy season.

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but 31 percent see themselves suffering a worse season. their definition of “worse,” however, swung between two opposites. mosty of it boiled down to clients – late, unprepared, annoying, questioning, fee-resisting clients. read more →

ready to move to the cloud? it takes planning

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careful setup makes it easy to disable accounts when people leave.

by byron k. patrick

technology in the cloud has already shown its promise. many small businesses have already moved from having physical servers onsite to a “cloud-only” technology strategy. they’re experiencing significant gains in productivity and mobility. you may be wondering if that’s the right decision for your company.

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cloud technology works. in fact, the cloud is secure, flexible, mobile, affordable and dependable. but it’s not magic. it takes more planning and work than simply saying, “alexa, turn on the cloud-only tech strategy.”

here are some key points to consider… read more →