the ongoing survey on professional development strategies, conducted in conjunction with the ohio society of cpas and consultant michael ramos, is asking in what areas accountants plan to beef up their capabilities this year. the survey touches on two dozen aspects of practice management and skill development. among them, the not-for-profit niche is emerging as the hottest specialty niche, followed by personal financial planning and business valuation.
as might be expected, preliminary results are showing most efforts to be in the standard professional missions: accounting, financial statements, audits, and tax preparation. the survey is also asking about specific specialty skills. the results may be indicating the true scope of today’s—and tomorrow’s—accounting industry. every skill mentioned was being pursued by at least quite a few respondents. read more →
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harry moehringer, managing partner of marks paneth, the nation’s 34th largest accounting firm, expects the business to grow by deepening the expertise in its specialty services while it also reaches out further to attract younger professionals and staff workers.
“the most important issue facing accounting firms like ours is creating an environment that fosters long-term organizational growth and prosperity,” he says. “this requires recognizing that, as the baby boom generation continues to age and retire, high-level knowledge and expertise in the profession will need to transition to dynamic and younger owners of the firm.”
most of the time when we are called in to work with firms, it is to help them plan for or implement significant change. the dialogue may start out with a general firm retreat, or it might simply be a session devoted to solving a few specific problems.
visionary firms are always looking to make changes long before their operating environment forces them to, from enhancing their ability to compete, making changes to improve profitability, building infrastructure to support succession, upgrading their people development, modifying the compensation process, increasing revenues and more. read more →
question: i have a key staff person who does not like supervising people. he says he can do everything faster and better than anyone else and doesn’t want to take the time to teach someone who, he says, won’t do it as well. he is a workhorse and spends anywhere from 50 to 60 hours a week all year round. what do i do?
busy season is all about taxes, but according to a survey underway by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间, the ohio society of cpas and consultant michael ramos, practitioners are by no means putting taxes away for the year.
apparently, it’s the constant evolution of tax laws and loopholes that keeps tax prep professionals busy all year. diane merk, at one of clark schaefer hackett’s offices in ohio and kentucky, says, “i only do tax work and structure my cpe to that area,” and she adds that this year she’ll be needing to focus on “ohio’s potential new changes in the taxable of pass-through entities.”
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