staffing & recruiting

cpas salute the people who shaped their lives

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today’s best career advice: join the survey; get the answers.

by rick telberg

at 20 years old, the world was a blank canvas with vast opportunities for sal inserra. he thought he knew exactly what he wanted in life.

“until,” he once told me, “i was set straight.”

like many cpas, sal owes much of his career and success to a few key mentors who guided him early on.

today — as the kids head back to school and college, and as the rest of us wind up our summers and look ahead to the fall — it may be a good time to salute the mentors who help steward a great profession to the next generation. read more →

18 pieces of today’s best job advice

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get certified. apply early and often.  join the survey; get the results.

by rick telberg

i’m looking over the early responses to our new cpa careers survey and one stands out for its practicality and wisdom. this from a veteran senior finance manager at a fortune 1000 company is, i think, 18 pieces of the best advice i’ve ever heard.

1. for the accountant who is not a cpa yet: if you’re not  a cpa already, make it a goal.

2. if you need hours, apply to every accounting firm that you could drive to or are willing to move close to.

3. apply beginning in mid-april, after busy season, when accounting firms clean house. read more →

crowdsourcing for accounting practices

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going beyond outsourcing and virtual workers.

by sandi smith, cpa
accountant’s accelerator

the days are long gone when the only way to build your business was by hiring full-time employees. now there are so many more choices. many employees are interested in part-time work. some prefer to work virtually, which frees a company up from being limited to local talent. and then there’s crowdsourcing, a whole new way to tap into talented labor on a project-by-project basis.

crowdsourcing is a special way to outsource a task. with outsourcing, you know exactly who will be doing the task. with crowdsourcing, you don’t; people just show up and contribute. wikipedia calls it “distributed problem-solving.” read more →

accounting industry extends two-year growth trend

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but cpas lag behind non-cpas.

get the accountants’ business outlook: join the survey; see the results.

by rick telberg
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间

screen shot 2013-08-06 at 7.34.21 pmthe tax and accounting industry is extending a two-year expansion by adding 2,500 new jobs in the latest month, according to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research.

in this report:

  • employment trends for the public accounting, bookkeeping, tax and payroll sector of the economy.
  • licensed cpa firms are lagging in growth behind non-cpa accounting providers.
  • employees book more hours.
  • but wage growth gets cut back.
  • more jobs and better pay for higher-paid positions and for men; fewer new jobs and smaller pay increases for women and production workers.
  • cpa firms add to headcounts more slowly than non-cpa firms, grant lower pay increases, and hire back fewer women.

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