in a ground-breaking effort to uncover the top trends and best practices in professional development in the tax and accounting industry, the ohio society of cpas (oscpa) is teaming with 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research and michael ramos + associates to conduct an extensive study of cpas’ learning plans, attitudes, and behaviors.
the study, already underway and in the preliminary reporting stages, is examining the links between the relative success of cpa firms and their approach to professional development.
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women continue to make gains, even hitting double digits in one sector.
the tax and accounting industry’s latest gains mark the 41st month in a row of year-over-year employment expansion, the longest continuous growth streak since the 45-month period that ended october 2008 with the global banking collapse. before that, the longest uninterrupted expansion lasted 93 months, ending september 2001 with the attacks of 9/11.
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among those firms expanding their rosters, they’re hiring at the five-person magid stroud accountancy corp., near san francisco.
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he adds, “we emphasize a team approach to all projects, provide a lot of life-work balance, and provide individually based continuing education.”
they’re hiring in grand rapids, mich. administrative assistant stephanie noeldner tells 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 that 15-person baker holtz is looking for new people. “i have a job that challenges me and i enjoy,” noeldner says. “i love the people i work with and i work for an amazing company that appreciates their employees.”
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and they’re hiring in ridgeland, miss. at 30-person matthews cutrer & lindsay, audit manager shannon adams says, “i’ve been with my company since i graduated college. the top management at my company has been actively involved in helping me succeed in my goals and has given me the support i need. my firm appreciates its employees and values them and their families.”
in this report, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 highlights:
– current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, payroll, tax, and cpa segments of the industry.
– average hourly wages for key segments.
– typical hours worked per week, and
– trends concerning women in the accounting workforce.
as a provider of continuing professional education who travels around the country lecturing at cpa firms large and small, there is one constant topic that i hear regardless of firm size: “we struggle with hiring and retaining employees – particularly after the two-year mark.”
this problem is not new – we had the same issues when i started my cpa career at an accounting firm 26 years ago. what is new however two decades later, is history showing us over and over again that the process of retaining employees begins well before a person is hired. and once hired, comprehensive on-going training that combines behavioral and technical components is critical to the success (profitability) of a firm.
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industry hiring is moving ever higher but wages aren’t keeping pace, according to new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research.
sole practitioner joshua giminez of fair winds tax and financial and columbus counted himself among those in a the latest 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 survey probably willing to consider a new job and keeping his eyes open. “opportunities to increase my income level abound,” he explained.
numbers are growing in nearly all sectors of the tax and accounting industry, with women in particular advancing 5.9 percent annualized and even higher in cpa firms and payroll.
yet, payroll remains volatile. workers are finding more opportunities, with 9.7 percent growth, but hourly pay for staff is off by 6.6 percent. read more →
for henry & horne, keeping up with technology and finding and retaining good workers are primary concerns. while the phoenix-area cpa firm can only wait and watch while others develop new technologies for accountants and their clients, it’s proactively confronting its personnel concerns.
“for many cpa firms, recruitment, retention, and succession is the critical issue, but progressive, forward-thinking firms should see this as a true opportunity,” says chuck goodmiller, co-managing partner with chuck inderieden. read more →
“the five-year rule is ridiculous and limits the number of people needed in the industry.”
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finding qualified staff is among the most significant problems facing the accounting industry, and the american institute of cpas is partly to blame, according to joel a. cooperman, chief executive officer of citrin cooperman & co., a new york-based accounting and consulting services firm with more than 650 employees.
“the aicpa does a very poor job promoting reasons why accounting can be a very exciting and very rewarding career,” says cooperman, who co-founded citrin cooperman in 1979 and has overseen the firm’s growth to its ranking of 22nd on accounting today’s top 100 firms list with $175 million in revenues during 2014.
nextgen participants spend 12 months developing skills and one major project.
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developing leaders from within the ranks of his firm is by far the top practice management issue for lee beall, chief executive officer of rea & associates, a central ohio area accounting and consulting firm that generates more than $35 million a year.
beall and his leadership team first became aware of the need to internally cultivate leaders a few years ago, when, he recalls, “we looked at our employee base at the time and didn’t have a clear picture of who would be the next generation of leaders in our firm. this was a sobering reality.”
today, rea has a set goal of selecting beall’s replacement as ceo from an internal pool of candidates and committed to not looking outside for new leadership positions.
“if firms simply ignore the responsibility to identify and develop leaders within, the success, future and sustainability of these firms will be at risk,” beall says. he adds that leadership impacts most all of the other key practice management issues, including mergers and acquisitions, finding and retaining good workers, and meeting clients’ changing expectations. read more →
business at the speed of change: internal conferences educate employees on specialties, solicit feedback.
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attracting and retaining talented employees is the key issue at blum shapiro and for the firm’s managing partner, joe kask, that means offering more than just the traditional workplace incentives.
“it’s not just about offering flexible work hours – providing people with the technology to work from anywhere or providing collaborative work spaces – it’s a paradigm shift in the way your organization thinks and operates,” says kask, who took over the reins at blumshapiro in january 2016. the west hartford, conn., firm’s $72.7 million in revenues during 2015 make it accountingtoday’s 52nd largest accounting firm in the united states and the largest in new england. read more →
individual work plans, overseas assignments among company’s offerings for employees.
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the cpa profession has to make itself more relevant – to both its clients and its workers – to thrive through the rest of this century, according to charles weinstein, chief executive officer of eisneramper, one of the profession’s largest firms with more than $300 million of revenues projected for all 2015.
“short-term, we need to make the profession cool,” he says. the “cool” in this case applies to the profession’s workforce. “a lot of it has to do with providing work-life balance for our employees, and that means more than just addressing their parenting or family issues,” he explains. “it also very much concerns meeting the needs of millennials and other younger-generation workers, whose concept of work and life in many cases is that they will work hard when that’s needed and expected of them, and then want balance for the rest of the time.”
also: expanding on the notion of ‘most trusted advisor.’
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while hiring top talent is a key concern for chris allegretti, chief executive officer of hbk cpas & consultants in canfield, ohio, he’s even more concerned with his firm’s ability to retain its best people.
“of course our job is to recruit the best, but we ‘re also finding that we have to constantly ‘re-recruit’ them by investing in their futures and making our firm the place where they’ll want to stay,” he says. read more →
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paid internships, outreach to high school among managing partner’s strategies.
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“the number one challenge for our organization today is finding and maintaining talented professionals,” says louis c. grassi, chief executive officer and managing partner of grassi & co.
to make itself more attractive to a younger generation of workers, his new york city-based firm is offering paid internships. grassi says the offer is available to “students interested in the field of accounting as a way to identify and develop young talent in our area.” read more →
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