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Smart accounting firm owners plan ahead in getting their practice ready for market. If you start to take action sooner rather than later, the improvements you make not only make the practice easier to sell, but also make the practice easier for you to own.
Here are 5 powerful questions to ask yourself if you want to dramatically improve your accounting practice:
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Doty Takes Aim at Auditors' Controls Testing and Says Mandatory Rotation Could be Difficult
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Internal accounting controls are not being properly tested by auditors, according to James Doty, chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Instead, he said, "some auditors are just taking the business process that the company has put in place as a control." Internal controls were a chief change mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Doty also said recently that a PCAOB…
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A Thanksgiving Meal Gets More Expensive by the Year, AFBF Finds
The cost of a typical Thanksgiving Day meal has risen 13% from last year to nearly $50 this year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. Rising commodity and food prices are the culprit, according to a study by 24/7 Wall St., which found that the cost of a 16-pound turkey is up 22.1% from last year; the cost of fresh cranberries by 2.9%; sweet potatoes, 2.1%; green peas, 16.6%; and rolls, 8.5%.…
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How to access QuickBooks Applications anytime, anywhere?
We live in an era where every task from ordering pizzas, booking movie shows, making online payments to getting technical support for computers and laptops is done instantly at the click of a mouse. The utilization of modern technology has turned dreams into reality allowing real time accessibility for business applications. Whether it is a fax, email, message, chat or video call a single device suffices to receive crumbled bits of information the moment they arrive. The ability to access…
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ncCPAp President Andrew Hult named in Accounting Today's Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting
Mineola, New York October 14, 2011 For the second year in a row, ncCPAp President Andrew Hult has been named as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting.
Accounting Today, a leading provider of online business news for the tax and accounting community, compiles this annual list, an accounting equivalent of Whos Who in America.
Hult, president of ncCPAp since November 2009, has been a strong advocate, educator and voice into Congress and the…
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Opinion: FASB should Require Companies to Report what they Pay in Federal Taxes
Opinion: FASB should require companies to report what they pay in federal taxes
"If the Financial Accounting Standards Board were to change its rules to require…
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Making a Difference: 100 PwC Interns Conduct Project Belize
"Remember when intern projects might also include re-organizing the file cabinet in alpha order? Well, times have definitely changed. Now, our interns are invited to take part in some of our most important PwC projects. In July, 100 PwC interns from across the United States headed for the heart of Central America to conduct Project Belize. Their objective: to work for a week helping…
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Why is the World Run by Bean Counters?
"A colleague asked me not so long ago: “Why is the world run by bean counters?” Interesting question. My take is that for the last 150 years, Western culture has been in the grip of left-brain thinking, and manipulating people like things. This made sense as long as there were huge economic gains that came from it. So the bean counters, the accountants, the economists, the green eyeshade people were on top of the world. They were good at counting things. The…
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QuickBooks Training Giveaway for CPAnet Readers Contest
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How to move beyond the ‘once a year’ client relationship
A CPA’s business can be notoriously seasonal. There’s a flurry of activity and anxious clients around tax time. But once April 15 (or April 18 this year) passes by, things can get awfully quiet.
With another tax season behind us, it’s time to think about how you can maintain a year-round relationship with existing and potential clients. Staying connected with your clients over the course of the year helps prevent them from looking elsewhere…
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AICPA Launches IFRS Certificate Program
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"The AICPA has long taken a leadership role in promoting the goal of one set of high-quality globally accepted accounting standards among public companies worldwide and readying U.S. CPAs for use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). To help CPAs understand and apply IFRS, meet…
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Facebook: Business vs. Personal: Controlling who gets to see your Facebook Information
"If you have a Facebook account, you've probably faced the dilemma of whether to accept a friend request from a business associate. Declining the invitation can cause wrinkles in professional relationships, but accepting the invitation may mean that you may not be able share as freely as you'd like on Facebook. In this…
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How to Manage Interruptions
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"How productive did you feel last week? If you got less done than you'd hoped....what kept you from staying on task? For many people, a constant stream…
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PwC Interns Volunteer for Operation Hope at Chicago Schools
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Can Social Media and the CPA Profession Mix?
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"I’m a CPA, a professional in an esteemed profession. I’m also a “social animal.” The word “social” can be an adjective or a noun. This article answers the question: Can social media and the CPA profession mix?
Merriam-webster.com has a number of definitions for the word, “social:”…
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Nine Things Successful People Do Differently
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"Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? If you aren't sure, you are far from alone in your…
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Should Chief Financial Officers be Required to Hold a CPA Designation?
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"The controversy is back. Should Chief Financial Officers be required to hold a CPA designation, or not? It began with a guest post on the FEI blog, with a couple of nightmares, I mean examples, of companies with non-CPA CFOs at the helm, and continued on through the comment section. This has also been a hot topic in Proformative, too.
Non-CPA CFOs say it…
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Save Time & Cost by Learning How to Use Excel Properly
Microsoft Excel has been around since the mid eighties and is used globally by micro to multinational organisations. For micro to sole trader business’s Excel can be used to build Financial Models to cater for the entire Accounting…
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FAR: FRAMEWORK 4: Recognition and Measurement in the Financial Statements
For our friends who are still reviewing for the exam.
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