Technology
PICPA Elects 125th President of Statewide Organization at Annual Meeting
Risden serves as chief financial officer and treasurer of Vision Benefits of America Inc. (VBA), a vision insurance company in Carnegie, Pa. As PICPA president, Risden will be dedicated to empowering the PICPA Board and staff to move its strategic ...
How to Set Business-Driving Goals with Your Clients
Good communication between CPAs and their clients is essential when crafting business-driven goals. CPAs and their clients should be a team, working together with a shared vision. Be clear with clients about what they want to achieve, and help them ...
Creating Your Path to Advisory Services
The path to advisory services is a journey that is likely a multi-year adventure for firms to test out the process with their clients and continue building and scaling year-over-year. A lot of firms already offer one-off planning advice to clients ...
Three Ways Accountants Can Surpass Customer and Prospect Expectations with Technology
With the nature of accountants’ work skewing toward ‘very busy’ each year-end and in the spring, finding new revenue opportunities is understandably pushed to the bottom of an accountant’s priority list until the slower summer months. Don’t let the ...
IRS Still Has Backlog of 21.3 Million Tax Returns
At the end of May 2022, the agency had a backlog of 21.3 million unprocessed paper tax returns, an increase of 1.3 million over the same time last year.
ITA Doubles Down on CAS at 2022 Spring Collaborative
The Information Technology Alliance (ITA), an independent membership association of leading mid-market technology professionals, consultants and product/service providers in North America, continued to expand its Client Accounting Services (CAS) track ...
PCAOB OKs Changes in the Oversight of Audits Involving Outside Auditors
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) voted unanimously to amend current auditing rules and introduced a new standard on June 21 pertaining to an audit firm’s use of so-called “other auditors” who lend a hand during the course of an audit.
Report Shows Trends Affecting Firms
Practice management is the heart and sole of an accounting firm, handling everything from initial client contact to managing workflow, to properly tracking hours and billing clients. When asked, here’s what respondents said were their biggest practice management challenges in 2021.