staffing & recruiting

trends in temporary staffing

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rationalizing a broken system and recapturing two-thirds of lost value.

dan gaffney
dan gaffney

with cpa firms and corporations rushing to staff up with a suddenly warming economy, finance and accounting employment agencies are booming. but it can’t last. sooner, rather than later, the internet will change everything.

dan gaffney, a cpa, cia, cisa and a 20-year audit veteran, in both public accounting and in corporate, is positioning himself to take advantage of the paradigm shift. he’s out to revolutionize the finance and accounting temp business.

his chicago-based incubation-stage start-up, vouchedin.com, is seeking to do to short-term staffing placements what monster did to newspaper classifieds and what apple did to the recording industry: leverage the internet to cut out the middleman, re-channeling profits to both the worker and the employer. it could change a big part of the accounting profession as well. – the editors read more →

when staffers don’t listen to you

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15-item checklist on effective staff management.

ed mendlowitz, cpa, abv, pfs
author of “implementing fee increases”

question: my staff doesn’t listen to me.  to be able to manage and control my business i need them to prepare a monthly schedule of what they plan on doing that month.  i further need to know each morning if they did what they were supposed to do the previous day, and whether there was anything not done, or anything extra that wasn’t planned on.  my problem is that they don’t give me the schedule and then don’t call or email me to tell me what they did. i really need to know this stuff and can’t figure out how to get them to do it.  what can you suggest? read more →

amid industry expansion, cpa firms remain cautious in hiring

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the good news: 10,700 accountants hired. the bad: profit pressure.

the u.s. tax, accounting, and bookkeeping industry added a seasonally adjusted 10,700 jobs in march, the ninth straight month of year-over-year expansion, according to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 sources. women and non-exempt employees are making up the bulk of the workers returning to the industry, but not, it seems, to cpa firms, where caution seems to be continuing. at the same time, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 finds renewed pressure on fees and pricing while utilization rates and salaries continue to increase.

– rick telberg
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

in this report:

  • overall hiring trends
  • women employment
  • cpa firm hiring
  • overall trends in pricing and billing rates
  • cpa firm pricing trends
  • tax prep pricing
  • pricing for bookkeeping and compilation
  • number of hours worked per week
  • trends in wages and earnings

 

the 3% increase to 932,900 full-time equivalents from the year-ago month represents the biggest jump in a year. still, the rise left the industry’s head count 14,100 jobs shy of the month’s record high of 946,700 in 2008.

all employees, thousands

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comp plans for the new managing partner

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lessons from the best-managed firms.

by marc rosenberg
author of “cpa firm management and governance: the managing partner’s guide to running a cpa firm like a business.”

baby boomer partners are rapidly approaching retirement age, resulting in a dramatic increase in new managing partners at firms.

in fact, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 estimates that up to 25% of multi-owner firms are operating under managing partners who are relatively new to the job, with tenures under three years. and over the next five years, one-third of multi-owner firms will undergo a change in ownership and/or control. read more →