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are you ready for the new lease accounting standard?

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dart stuck in bull's-eye of dartboard8 steps to take.

at the start of 2019, the implementation deadline for the financial accounting standards board’s (fasb) new lease accounting standard passed for public companies.

now, the focus – and pressure – is on privately held organizations, which must adopt the requirement by 2020.

and new research suggests that many of these firms may find themselves scrambling to meet the deadline for compliance.
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the #1 problem: staffing, staffing, staffing

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smallest firms plagued most by growing tax complexity. 

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staff recruitment remains the top issue for most cpa firms, while growing tax complexity and risk management regarding privacy and data security are rising challenges, new research by the aicpa shows.

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“finding qualified staff” is the no. 1 issue for every firm-size segment except sole practitioners, according to the 2019 pcps cpa firm top issues survey, matching the topline results from the last survey two years ago.

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10 elements to balancing shareholders’ needs

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portrait of nancy falls
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summer reading: corporate concinnity in the boardroom

con·cin·ni·ty
/k?n?sin?d?/
noun
the skillful and harmonious arrangement or fitting together of the different parts of something.

by steven sacks

every so often i come across a business book that addresses an ongoing organization challenge in a thoughtful, practical and effective manner. this is what i discovered when reading “corporate concinnity in the boardroom” by nancy falls.

more summer reading: stop wasting time in useless meetings | a leader’s guide to ending entitlement

the title does not limit the book’s scope; the treatment of the topic applies to boards in the public, private, not-for-profit and academic sectors. read more →

the only three metrics you need to measure staffers

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a totally virtual firm takes a new tack.

by jody grunden
summit cpa group

if you want to grow your accounting firm, it’s important to evaluate the effectiveness of your process on a regular basis. you want to be aware of what’s working well and what’s not. you also want to continually be improving upon your services over time.

more grunden: misconceptions and truths about remote work  |  how summit cpa group is pioneering virtual cfo services

there are three things you can specifically monitor when it comes to the effectiveness of your team. here’s how we do it at summit cpa group. maybe these ideas will work for you too.
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why you must constantly push work down

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woman in business attire with papers flying around behind her backnew staff won’t work the hours you did. forget that notion right now.

by bill reeb and dominic cingoranelli

as we work with firms throughout north america, one of the most constant, critical issues we find is that of staffing gaps. those gaps are manifested in shortfalls of billable hours, as well as shortages of people, and a lack of critical competencies of people – all at various levels throughout the firm.

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in these situations, we tend to find that often the partners, and sometimes the managers, are billing too many hours. meanwhile many staff, especially at the lowest levels within the firm, consistently are missing their billable hour targets.
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how to hire and manage great admin staff

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businesswoman shaking hands with someone out of view3 key points to remember.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

you can divide staff into four categories: administrative, entry-level preparer, advanced preparer and manager.

more: the right way to assign staff projects | some uncommon advice on hiring full-time staff | what goes into a client project? | value pricers ignore half the pricing puzzle
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i’m tempted to state that administrative employees are the most important people in your firm. i won’t go quite that far, but your administrative staff are every bit the face of your firm that you are.
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the right way to assign staff projects

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magnet drawing in three people… and then manage their workloads.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

let’s talk about assigning staff to projects. understand that this discussion will mean nothing the first two weeks of april, when you may be assigning the family dog to some returns.

more: some uncommon advice on hiring full-time staff | managing people: the heart of effective project management | tammy’s tale of tax season tardiness | beware the leeches and consultants | the value-pricing con job | the 21st-century cpa firm | ruthlessly efficient workflow management | the annual tax meeting is dead. clients killed it.
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and that makes perfect sense in those circumstances. i’ve done worse. who knew that goldfish can’t type?
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managing people: the heart of effective project management

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//www.g005e.com/2019/05/09/managing-people-the-heart-of-effective-project-management/remember, bad clients crowd out good ones.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

somewhere in the period between the neanderthals and homo sapiens, the first accountant evolved.

more: workflow for dummies | what goes into a client project? | value pricers ignore half the pricing puzzle | cpas can’t help you | the agile accountant | the cure for commoditization
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he looked around and realized this earth thing might become immensely profitable and set out to get capital gains treatment.

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workflow for dummies

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exhausted man rubbing his eyes under glassesso you can quickly tell when a delay is the client’s fault. plus: the 12-step tax return and 8-step writeup workflows.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

let’s play buzzword bingo. i’ll go first: workflow.

more: what goes into a client project? | tammy’s tale of tax season tardiness | beware the leeches and consultants | the value-pricing con job | the 21st-century cpa firm | ruthlessly efficient workflow management
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workflow is the cpa firm buzzword of the decade. every vendor leech trying to suck the life out of your bank account drops this term, and in so doing, workflow now means everything and nothing at all. marketers have so devalued the term that we shouldn’t be surprised that no one has an effective workflow, because no one knows what it is. let’s flush the confusion.
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the top 5 concerns of great managing partners

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industrial metal number 5growth and mergers didn’t make the cut, so what did?

by marc rosenberg
the rosenberg practice management library

i recently updated my research on the role of the managing partner. how better to do this than to poll great mps from across the country? so that’s what i did.

more: partners: when to speak up and when to shut up
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i received responses from 17 mps: three from firms with revenue exceeding $50 million; five firms were $20-50 million; six firms were $10-20 million; and three firms were $5-10 million. as i expected, i received very eloquent, powerful and somewhat diverse advice.
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