October 2021

November 17, 2021 

If your firm isn’t leveraging a YouTube channel for its brand, you may be missing out. According to HubSpot, in 2021, “84% of video marketers say video has been effective for generating leads.” Benefits of YouTube for B2B Marketing When your video channel is optimized—meaning with keyword-focused titles and descriptions—you can reach a wider audience...…

October 11, 2021 

The survey uncovered five key trends respondents believe will have long-term impacts on internal audit teams, including: the continued increased use of technology to conduct audits, employing innovative means of gathering and analyzing evidence ...

Isaac M. O'Bannon

October 8, 2021 

As we have learned in the past, the trends set by the Big Four always move downward to the rest of the profession and with this, we have all been given permission to follow PWC’s lead and finally acknowledge that remote work is here to stay.

Garrett Wagner

October 7, 2021 

Now that it’s officially in the 4th quarter of 2021, your clients will likely seek your advice about what needs to be accomplished before year-end. Accounting tasks aside, you can help guide them to wrap up their businesses’ compliance and legal responsibilities. The following is a handy checklist to ensure your clients end 2021 in...…

Nellie Akalp

October 7, 2021 

Human capital management or HCM looks at your workforce differently. Instead of classifying employees as an expense, HCM views workers as an asset.

Mary Girsch-Bock

October 7, 2021 

If you’ve ever done payroll for your own business or a client's, you’ll understand just how stressful the process can be. Employees are extremely proprietary about their paychecks and will notice the smallest discrepancy.

Mary Girsch-Bock

October 7, 2021 

I stumbled into the world of computers by accident. Having plenty of free time, a friend and I decided to take a computer seminar one summer between college semesters, and I was hooked. I changed my major (not the first time I had done that), became ...

Gail Perry

October 5, 2021 

Before 2020, remote hiring was nearly foreign in finance and accounting fields. In-person interviews and meetings — getting face time — was ingrained in the business culture.

Paul McDonald

October 5, 2021  Sponsored

The newly-released QuickBooks Desktop Plus 2022 includes many new and improved features that will help your clients manage their business with greater efficiency around accounting tasks and cash flow.

October 4, 2021 

We live in a digital world. And yet, the marketing plans of many accounting firms are still analog. They spend thousands of dollars on printed brochures and rely on referrals and word of mouth to scale and grow.

Jim Boomer

September 30, 2021 

In the past, the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) would commonly randomly select employers for compliance audits with the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Random audits have all but ended for a variety of reasons.

Richard D. Alaniz, JD

September 30, 2021 

More than anything, the pandemic brings us face-to-face with our mortality, prompting many pandemic-related epiphanies about life, death, family, and work. It puts into focus how important it is to balance work and life in a post-COVID world.

Amy Vetter

September 24, 2021 

76% of accounting and finance leaders have stated that COVID-19 has accelerated the digital transformation of the accounts payable process.

Mary Girsch-Bock

September 14, 2021 

Though the majority of businesses are still experiencing negative effects of the Coronavirus, some of the latest results are encouraging, with only 13% of respondents indicating that they need to obtain financial assistance or additional capital, down ...

Mary Girsch-Bock