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Firms Revs Improve; Profit Picture Mixed
- Tuesday, 25 October 2016
- Running a Firm
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Most CPA firms have experienced increases in revenue over their most recent fiscal year. That is the finding of the 2016 National Management of an Accounting Practice (MAP) Survey conducted by the American Institute of CPAs. The survey derived its findings from information gathered from May through June from 1,537 CPA firms about their latest financial year results.
TaxAct Parent Hires HR Executive
- Monday, 24 October 2016
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Blucora, which owns the TaxAct software line, has named Pamela Turay as chief human resources officer. Turay was previously SVP for tax services chain Jackson Hewitt. She began her new job on October 3.
Preventing Document Management Headaches
- Sunday, 16 October 2016
- Running a Firm
- Written by James O'Connor
Let's say you're a CPA and a client inconveniently calls you 10 minutes after you've left the office. It probably means the client needs something from you and you likely won't be able to bill the person on the other end of the line who most often just wants a copy of a file.
Preparer Guilty in ID Fraud
- Wednesday, 14 September 2016
- Running a Firm
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
A Cranston, R.I.-based tax preparer has pleaded guilty to using stolen identifies to receive more than 100 government checks in the amount of $800,700 and deposit them into her personal bank account. The preparer, Belkis M. Guzman, 48, pleaded to aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, wire fraud, theft of government funds and aggravated identity theft.
Read more...Are You An Entrepreneurial Accountant?
- Wednesday, 14 September 2016
- Running a Firm
- Written by Hitendra R. Patil
What is the difference between the way traditional accountants and entrepreneurs think? Generally accountants utilize managerial thinking—they selected from means to reach a goal. Entrepreneurs are driven by effectual reasoning—they imagine new results based on many of those same ends.
Wolters Kluwer's Connor Goes to Sage
- Wednesday, 07 September 2016
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Jerry Connor, who worked at CCH/Wolters Kluwer for 24 years, has joined Sage as product evangelist. Conner's recent job change was shown this week on his LinkedIN profile, which says he will be working with products such as Sage Live and Sage View for Accountants.
Read more...Gramlich Gone from AccountantsWorld
- Friday, 26 August 2016
- People & Moves
- Written by Bob Scott
Jeff Gramlich has left AccountantsWorld. Gramlich's LinkedIn profile shows that he left the Hauppauge, N.Y.-based software company to form Gramlich Consulting in February after serving as president of AccountantsWorld from August 2013. The company has issued no official statement about his departure.
LBMC Names New Leaders
- Wednesday, 10 August 2016
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Accounting firm LBMC has named four individuals as leaders in its LBMC PC arm. The four were named in four major practice areas. It also chose leaders in LBMC Information Security and LBMC Information Security.
Intuit Names New Marketing VP
- Tuesday, 26 July 2016
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Intuit has named Lucas Watson as chief marketing and sales officer. He replaces Caroline Donohue, who said in February she would retire after 21 years with the software company. Watson will begin his job on August 22.
Watson came from Google where he served as VP of global brand solutions and innovations and had worked there from June 2011.
Sage Picks American Accountant Head
- Monday, 25 July 2016
- Running a Firm
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Sage is moving Nancy Harris from her role in running its Canadian operations to managing its Sage's North American partner and accountant business. Harris who has been EVP in Canada since August 14, has been named EVP of the United States-based operation.
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