four ways to beat the staffing shortage, with pasha malik

kill the billable hour, embrace remote work, stay flexible, get social, says pasha malik of thyor.

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twitter and linkedin are the go-to resources for finding new talent at the mclean, va.-based thyor group of companies, founder and ceo pasha malik tells richard rothstein for 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.

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let’s get real: kill saly

gary cokins on predictive accounting and driver-based budgeting.

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the new fundamentals

the main problem with the annual budget process as a fiscal exercise done by the accountants is that it is disconnected from the executive team strategy.

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corporate finance expert gary cokins says the typical annual budget process allows too much room for bad habits, such as the use-it-or-lose-it mindset of allocated resources, as well as incorporating last year’s inefficiencies in processes into the current year.

five key take-aways:

  1. there is interest now in corporate performance management because executives are frustrated with strategy failure. they are good at formulating strategy, but meeting expected goals is a real problem.
  2. the way to get rid of spreadsheet budgeting is to view the amount of spending of any organization as the result of the confluence of two streams. the first is going to be repeatable work. it tends to be operational. the second is non-repeatable because it involves capital, risk management, and strategy projects.
  3. accounting must carefully identify and construct key performance indicators. but not every type of measurement is key.
  4. activity-based costing is just full absorption costing done correctly, without the “butter spreading” on spreadsheets of labor hours or units produced or sales dollars or full-time equivalent headcount or square feet. none of those reflect the unique consumption that the products or service lines actually consume.
  5. many people have heard about the balanced scorecard, but it’s just a feedback mechanism. the real intelligence is in the strategy map.

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coaching the right way

dom cingoranelli joins steven sacks and judy trepeck.

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the new fundamentals: thriving in disruption

with an increasing number of accounting firms embracing employee coaching, it’s becoming clear that many just aren’t doing it right, practice management advisor dom cingoranelli tells steven sacks and judy trepeck in an exclusive new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 discussion.

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“there are more and more firms who are really taking seriously their investment in their people,” says cingoranelli, emeritus founder, senior consultant at succession institute llc. “they understand that for the long term they need to develop their intellectual capital. and they realize that it’s not going to happen by itself.”

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nancy fox: winning the mind game of success

how to overcome the mind-blocks holding you back from total success.

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professionals need to use a blend of psychology and strategy to guide them with both mental fitness and tactics to produce career breakthroughs, executive coach nancy fox tells steven sacks.

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in business, the mind is 95% of the game, according to fox, so it’s essential to recognize the causes of mindset blocks that are encountered, such as competition and business development, and what their impact can be.


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key takeaways:

  • leaders may not understand the nuances or fundamentals of mentoring and cultivating talent. as such, they find the biggest impediments to be themselves.
  • the conscious mind is where our thoughts are directed in such areas as logic, strategy, memory, learning, data analysis. however, 95% of our thoughts are directed by the subconscious mind, and only 5% by our conscious minds.
  • the subconscious mind is where the inner game of work, career, and life is really won — or lost.
  • there are some strategies you can use to train your mind to prepare yourself to experience an outcome and imagine ways to achieve that outcome.
  • in addition to training your mind to block negative thoughts and experience only positive thoughts, there are physical techniques that can be used.

nancy fox is the founder and president of the business fox, a business consulting and training company specializing in guiding law, accounting, and service business firms grow through smarter networking and business development and niche marketing strategies.

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gary cokins: the truth about activity-based costing

how to implement progressive management accounting techniques.

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the new fundamentals: thriving in disruption

management finance expert gary cokins says there’s nothing wrong with activity-based costing. except that you’re probably doing it all wrong.

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the problem is, cokins says, it’s convenient for the accountants to allocate the overhead based on allocation factors, like labor hours, number of units produced in a manufacturer, headcount, number of employees, and square feet, even though none of them reflect the unique consumption relationship between how the outputs products and services consumed.

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when cyber-crime hits close to home

financial services are a prime target.

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with cyber-crime growing by leaps and bounds, accountants are caught in the cross-hairs, cyber-security professional jill cagliostro tells steven sacks for 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.

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cagliostro, senior product manager with splunk, a data management and security company, says “cybercriminals are getting more advanced. they’re finding new avenues and new ways to get in every single day.”

“and beyond that,” she says, “they’re also communicating with each other. so they’re able to share these new tactics and techniques amongst each other to become more proficient together.”

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james lopiccolo: sell service, not hours

small firm attacks the big issues with novel strategies.

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the accounting profession is “stuck in a rut,” says james n. lopiccolo, founder and managing member of capocore professional advisors, in lake orion, mich.

he says cpas can’t see “the challenges that are coming by from other non-cpa firms.”

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lopiccolo’s answer is offering service agreements, instead of billing by the hour. risky? sometimes. but clients love it.

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in more than 31 years of public accounting, lopiccolo has worked in business advisory, tax, and accounting for a multitude of industries including contracting, manufacturing, medical, professional service companies, and real estate. he serves on the michigan cpa association executive committee and the finance committee, and he is a two-time chair of the aicpa small firm practitioners task force.

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hunker down: the irs backlog isn’t going away anytime soon

the bottom line: for every dollar in new funding, the irs could be collecting 10 times that. 

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irs commissioner charles rettig says the backlog of millions of returns will remain unresolved for months more.

//www.g005e.com/?p=82486“we would hope to be through this backlog by the summer,” rettig told house ways and means oversight subcommittee chairman bill pascrell, who said 24 million returns are jammed in the irs pileup. rettig countered with 2.4 million, the number of individual returns.

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his testimony came a day after the government announced it would extend the filing deadline from april 15 to may 17, with crucial details still to be determined. the new rules sent tax software companies rushing to push out updates and left accountants and their clients in limbo. and, he said the delay in the tax-filing deadline could postpone the launch of a new monthly child tax credit payment program,

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trullion: new a.i. startup targets rev rec, lease accounting

founder and ceo isaac heller seeks to be “single source of truth” for lenders.

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on the even of trullion breaking out of stealth mode, ceo and co-founder isaac heller tells 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 in this video interview how the new fintech company can automate the process of lease accounting to establish a cost-effective, functional view of contract data for auditors accounting firms and cfos alike.

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formerly known as smrt, the trullion platform automates unstructured data such as pdfs and translates them into real-time financial reports, including lease accounting and revenue recognition.

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steven braunstein: new covid strategies for staff recruiting and retention

snyder cohn revamps staffing tactics for work-from-home conditions.

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with richard rothstein

steven braunstein, managing partner of snyder cohn in north bethesda, md., talks about the impact of covid on staff recruiting and retention — including virtual “lunch with steve” sessions.

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but how do you nurture a firm culture without face-to-face live, in-person in-office meetups? that’s what braunstein is figuring out.

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