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January 12, 2019 

Umbaugh and Springsted Join Baker Tilly

Umbaugh is the largest CPA firm in the U.S. that focuses solely on financial management, capital planning, bond issuance and post issuance advising and consulting for municipalities, utilities, schools, libraries, counties and townships.

 RSM Joins Sheltered Harbor’s Alliance Partner Community

January 9, 2019 

RSM Joins Sheltered Harbor’s Alliance Partner Community

The audit, tax and consulting services firm RSM US LLP has joined the Sheltered Harbor alliance partner community in both an assurance and advisory capacity. A not-for-profit subsidiary of Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), Sheltered Harbor is the industry standard for protecting and recovering customer account data in the event that a...…

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January 8, 2019 

Kathleen Zwickert Joins Avalara Board of Directors

Zwickert was formerly Chief People Officer at NetSuite (now Oracle NetSuite), a provider of cloud-based applications, where she transformed the company’s Human Resources function through technological innovations. Prior to NetSuite, Zwickert was EVP ...

 Accounting Predictions for 2019

January 1, 2019 

Accounting Predictions for 2019

December has come again, and it’s time to predict the big stories for 2019. Here are the seven trends I think will have transformational impact on practitioners and their firms in the coming year:

Brian Tankersley

 blumshapiro Elects Brooke Simpson as Partner

December 17, 2018 

blumshapiro Elects Brooke Simpson as Partner

With over 15 years of tax planning experience, Simpson has provided sound strategic planning for both U.S. and multi-national corporations. She has worked as an International Tax Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Boston since 2004, and since ...

 December 2018 Firm Management Channel

December 17, 2018 

December 2018 Firm Management Channel

Why Most Firms Don’t Make It to the Second Generation By Marc Rosenberg, CPA The short answer is that CPA firms stink at succession planning.  Firms’ entire operations are geared to maximizing short-term profits, focusing on today at the expense of tomorrow.  Evidence of this is the following: A 60 year-old sole practitioner wants to...…

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December 10, 2018 

Why and How: Emerging Technology Strategies

We’ve been through a year together learning about Emerging Technologies. While there will always be new technology, we are not likely to go through a period of time again anytime soon where the algorithms are changing so rapidly and the new ...

Randy Johnston