Firm Management December 23, 2024
Does Your Firm Have a Data Strategy?
Data is at the core of incorporating AI and automation into your firm’s workflows. Without a deliberate data strategy, these initiatives can fall short.
April 25, 2019
Hiring Looks Bright for 2019 Graduates
The top benefits cited for hiring individuals right out of school include their enthusiasm about starting a career (35 percent) and their fresh perspective and ideas (28 percent).
April 23, 2019
Baker Tilly Partner Rachel Polson Assumes Chair of Minnesota Society of CPA Board of Directors
Rachel Polson, partner with Baker Tilly and leader of the firm’s software and technology practice, has assumed the role as the 2019-2020 chair of the Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants (MNCPA) board.
April 19, 2019
IRS Says It Needs $2 Billion to Modernize Its Technology
The IRS Integrated Modernization Business Plan is anticipated to cost between $2.3 billion to $2.7 billion over six years through Fiscal Year 2024. Some components of the plan are in place for the current year, and the administration’s budget proposal ...
April 19, 2019
Taxpayers Can Still Claim Residential Energy Credits
For 2019, this credit is equal to 30% of the cost of alternative energy equipment installed in your home, or three times the percentage for the regular residential energy credit.
April 19, 2019
Do Your Best Vision Management
April 2019 Issue Many of you have put off reading this issue and article until after a hectic tax season that changed your processes and rhythm because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). One of the advantages of being a consultant to the ...
April 18, 2019
Apps We Love April 2019 – Shipping & Mailing
Do you ship packages? Do you struggle with verifying zip codes? Do you need tracking information? Do you fret over delivery delays or lack of real people to answer questions? We’ve surveyed the CPA Practice Advisor community as well as various shipping options on the internet and have found some tools that you might find...…
April 18, 2019
Visa and Wave Partner to Speed Up Cash Flow for Small Businesses
Using Worldpay’s acquiring platform, Wave’s new Instant Payouts feature integrates Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time push payments solution, into Wave’s comprehensive small business accounting offering, enabling faster access to money earned.
April 16, 2019
Creating Structure Around Innovation
The innovation process within firms is often chaotic and uncoordinated if it exists at all. While it’s true that innovation is messy, leaders cannot expect to merely tell people the goal is to be innovative and expect amazing things.
April 16, 2019
Optimization vs. Transformation
Bringing in technology to optimize what your firm already does will not somehow transform your business model. So let’s take a look at the differences between optimization and transformation.
April 16, 2019
Loving to Learn
If the way millennials view learning wasn’t enough to get you to rethink your focus on learning, a study in 2017 by Deloitte revealed that learning and development is the #2 topic on the minds of CEO and HR leaders, so clearly these millennials are ...
April 16, 2019
Smarter Engagements: OnPoint PCR Transforms A&A
Launched in the summer of 2018, OnPoint PCR addresses industry trends, allowing firms to comply with standards, manage their engagements efficiently, while also providing firms with the impetus to adapt the latest technology.
April 16, 2019
2019 Readers’ Choice Awards: The Technologies that Accounting & Tax Pros Like Most
This is the 15th annual edition of the Readers’ Choice Awards. Once again, we have invited our readers to help us spotlight the technologies they most respect and trust to help them run their firms and provide client services.