Firm Management

Accounting thought leader Allan Koltin provided a keynote address at the International Accounting Group's (TIAG) 22nd international conference, which started on Monday and continues through May 7 at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami. Koltin is president and CEO of Koltin Consulting Group.

Samir Khosla, Director of Product Management at Intuit, discusses the company's focus on “Customer Delight” and Accountant Day 2014.

In a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has voiced strong opposition to draft legislation that would limit the use of the cash method of accounting for pass-through entities and personal service corporations.

The accounting profession is wide open...

Everyone’s talking about it and most accounting firm owners have a sense they should be doing it, but what exactly is content marketing? In a nutshell, it’s a marketing paradigm that opts for providing something of value as a method of showing audiences why they might want to choose your services rather than telling them to do so. The benefits to your accounting firm are well worth taking the plunge. Content marketing helps you:

It doesn’t have the glamor of Hollywood stars for clients, nor the rapid-growth cache of accounting for the new marijuana trade. But if your accounting firm is looking to build a national reputation and a loyal client base that is largely ignored by the rest of the industry, I will once again say…become experts in accounting for the disabled.

The International Accounting Group (TIAG) is continuing to experience growth, recently adding several new members to its alliance of independent accounting firms. The new firm members give TIAG an increased presence in critical commercial and financial centers in the United States, Europe and Africa. The newest member firms to join TIAG include:

By now you have discovered the sad and silly trick that Microsoft played on you during the last days of tax season. Windows XP has been killed, and you have to upgrade to Windows 8.1 or leave your accounting computers both unprotected and in violation of federal law.