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hiring experience vs. training inexperience

invest your mentoring time where it matters most.

by ed mendlowitz
202 questions and answers: managing an accounting practice

question: we were looking for an additional experienced person since september and hired someone with five years experience in mid-november, but she said she couldn’t start until january. she said she had work she had to finish up.

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two days before christmas she called to tell me her firm made her a “better” offer and she decided to stay there. it meant we had to enter busy season short a person. this seems to happen a lot. what do you suggest?
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audit & assurance

five ways to prevent audit bottlenecks

keep your audit team flowing smoothly.

by alan anderson, cpa
transforming audit for the future

your team must take a proactive, anticipatory approach to completing an audit in the field. think about the bottlenecks you faced last year with this same client and the bottlenecks that seem to happen with every client.

more: planning lays the foundation of audit relevance | how do we drive relevance in audit? | lack of relevance drives audit commoditization | four basic understandings every auditor must master | wanted: great audit mentors | closing the audit expectations gap
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sit down with your team and have open-ended conversations about actions to take to reduce or eliminate those bottlenecks. here are some ideas for preventing problems:

audit & assurance

trump trial: a case study in accounting?

could some good accountants have spared the nation its hush money trauma?

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
analysis and commentary

the donald trump case involving hush money payments indeed centered around accounting practices and the legal implications of how these transactions were recorded. the payments in question, made to silence allegations of extramarital affairs, were scrutinized for potential violations of campaign finance laws and business records.

a 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 analysis of generally accepted practices and the professional literature demonstrates the grave lapses that led to felony convictions and the essential role good accountants and honest accounting must play in the executive suite.

the lessons – and risks – for accountants are painfully clear.

outlook & analysis

to replenish the talent pipeline, go back to the classroom

maybe we should front-load the coolest parts of our profession.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

if you’re wondering why it’s so hard to find and hire qualified accounting professionals, think back to your college days … your first class in accounting, probably something like “principles of accounting.”

obviously you, a future accountant, passed the course, and apparently you found it interesting.

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but that puts you in a minority of students with an interest in business. according to a survey from the center for audit quality, 32 percent of students who chose not to major in accounting said lack of interest or passion was the main reason, and 70 percent said it was at least part of the reason.

no surprise, then, that only one in eight graduates in business areas major in accounting. and that’s down from one in seven in 2016.
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streaming network

it’s time for accounting to play the infinite game

agents of transformation, the time is now.

by donny c. shimamoto, cpa, citp, cgma
center for accounting transformation

every day, i see or hear criticisms of the accounting profession: everyone is burning out, the partners are only in it to get rich, everyone is leaving the profession, and students don’t want to be accountants anymore. it wrenches my heart to hear this because i love my work. i’ve had a wonderful career that lets me help others succeed, and the broader accounting profession has opened up opportunities that i would never have dreamed possible. is accounting really on the decline? ask the pundits, and you get a resounding “yes!”

more: harper & co. cpas: the perspective of a non-accountant is imperative | menlo innovations: improve office culture by overhauling internal reviews | dustin wheeler: for serious cas success, hire tech teams | chase birky: overcoming paralysis by analysis |

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yet, reading simon sinek’s book, the infinite game, shed some light on what the profession is doing wrong—the current leaders of the profession are playing a finite game. one of the key concepts that sinek explains in his book is that of an existential flex. he described an existential flex as something that “recreates that passion for something new at a time when the company is already enjoying success.” this is where the accounting profession is now. we’ve enjoyed decades of success, and accounting firm partners and cfos have been enjoying the riches of that success, but our profession has lost the connection to our just cause.