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Ask the Accounting Today 100 Most Influential People the most important issues they face and most mention legal liability, recruiting and technology. Though many say there are other significant trends [...]

When it comes to marketing, firms often depend on the old . Brochures, radio spots, print ads and newsletters, not to mention getting the partners out of the office to [...]

As tax planning becomes increasingly a year-round activity, many practitioners are taking a more pro-active stance in marketing this service. Thanks to constant changes in tax regulations and an aging [...]

THE EFFICIENCY EFFECT Arthur Andersen Sets the Pace by Wringing Out Productivity Gains By focusing almost single-mindedly on efficiency and shunning the mergers that have troubled other Big Six competitors, [...]

FINDING THE RIGHT MIX Top 60 Boost Big-Ticket Business With Consulting Engagements Although audit and taxes are still the meat and potatoes of the profession, management advisory services are gaining [...]

Sorting Through The Consulting Puzzle Computer consulting is on a roll in the accounting profession. This is reflected not only in results of Accounting Today's survey on computerization, but reports [...]

WASHINGTON -- The drive to regulate the financial planning field in the face of mounting concern over investor protection is gaining momentum at the federal level. Both the American Institute [...]

Enrolled agents have won an important round against the CPA establishment over rules in a model accounting law. The National Association of Enrolled Agents has convinced the American Institute of [...]

TAMPA, FLA. - Investment strategies and health care costs are emerging as the hot new issues in the financial planning arena. With the baby boomers reaching retirement age and new [...]

A whole new generation of accountant -- computer-literate, -equipped, and -eager -- appears to be changing forever the way continuing professional education is conceived, delivered and taken. Vendors and regulators [...]

MIAMI -- Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Co. has strengthened its position in the competitive South Florida market with the addition of two new veteran partners from a dissolving competitor. The [...]

NEW YORK -- Eugene M. Freedman, the bold, brash and controversial Coopers & Lybrand leader has reluctantly decided to step down as chairman and chief executive and to leave the [...]

The Internal Revenue Service's market segment specialization program is receiving solid support from tax practitioners across the country. The program, CPAs agree, will make IRS audits fairer, faster and geographically [...]

The 1994 tax season is shaping up as the most challenging and most profitable one in years for many of the nation's practitioners. New twists in the tax act of [...]

Tax practitioners are not waiting for passage of the Clinton administration's widely-publicized health care reform program to capitalize on the planning opportunities it offers. Well aware that enactment is months [...]

The electronic filing fraternity is preparing for a sharp increase in activity this year The Internal Revenue Service, for instance, expects 14.1 million tax returns to be filed electronically during [...]

Filing by touch-tone telephone? Paying Uncle Sam by credit card? Paperless return preparation? A value-added tax on the books? These developments may sound a bit off the wall now, but [...]

Redondo Beach, Calif. -- Stein Thompson Ward Inc. is a small accounting firm that is thinking big. Founding partners Pat Stein, Kevin Thompson and Artemas Ward celebrated the firm's first [...]

The competitive pressure that has sparked the downsizing of the legal profession is prompting many law firms to look to technology to improve efficiency, cash flow and profitability. In many [...]

President Clinton would have received a cool reception if he were at the well-attended seminars on his controversial 1993 tax law staged by Urbach Kahn & Werlin. The 230 executives [...]

Stiffening competition is forcing members of th legal profession to take a more businesslike and efficient approach to management. Not known for their business acumen, lawyers are turning to accountants [...]

Thanks largely to the increased individual tax rate build into the 1993 tax act, the S corporation structure is losing its luster in the business community. Indeed, the new tax [...]

The stagnant economy is making the road to becoming partner a long and challenging one for today's aspiring professionals. In addition to adjusting to shifting priorities in selecting partners, the [...]

NEW YORK--Faced with a shrinking market, some local CPA firms are chalking up solid revenue increases by targeting niches, increasing marketing efforts and focusing on client service. Practitioners are also [...]

St. Louis - The Internal Revenue Service is calling on practitioners to help tackle what Commissioner Peggy Richardson considers one of the biggest challenges facing it and the profession, implementation [...]

CHICAGO - Two local accounting firm competitors are taking their rivalry to new heights with mirrorimage internal overhauls. Both Altschuler, Melvoin & Glasser and Checkers Simon & Rosner are re [...]

Faced with an Internal Revenue Service crackdown on abuses and stiff penalties for non-compliance, Corporate America is turning to accounting firms in increasing numbers for strategies in dealing with the [...]

Research Institute of America and Commerce Clearing House are wasting no time in publishing special reports that explain and analyze provisions of the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993. New York-based [...]

In the most intensive educational campaign since the 1986 Tax Reform Act, accounting firms are bombarding clients with booklets that contain comprehensive explanations of provisions in the Revenue Reconciliation Act [...]

Washington -- The Internal Revenue Service is assisting in Midwest flood relief efforts and is making it easier for charities to aid victims. At the same time, it has extended [...]

Atlanta -- Accountants are gaining ground in the personal financial planning field. A new poll by the Gallup Organization shows that 42 percent of Americans now believe accountants are the [...]

Tax practitioners are scrambling to exploit the business opportunities the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 has put on their plate. The accounting profession is expecting a sharp increase in billable [...]

DES MOINES, IOWA -- When flooding knocked out this city's water system and forced the evacuation of downtown offices, local CPA firms scrambled to minimize any disruption of service the [...]

PEORIA, Ill.--If all goes as planned, Clifton Gunderson & Co. will be a firm with $80 million in billings, a staff of 1,000, and 125 to 130 partners by the [...]

NEW YORK -- If Berenson & Co. does not achieve its goal of becoming the leading full-service accounting firm for the exploding entrepreneurial, emerging business sector, it won't be the [...]

PHOENIX -- Two local accounting firms, Gallant & Co. and Vogel & Co., have merged practices to form the third largest accounting firm in the Phoenix area. The new entity, [...]

With cutbacks in government spending and a flood of aggressive practitioners, the bidding for federal, state, and local government auditing engagements is reportedly more competitive than ever this summer. 'Fees [...]

Thanks to spiraling tax rates and more aggressive governmental audit and collection procedures, state and local taxes are becoming an increasingly important facet of tax and accounting practices. With revenue-starved [...]

The much publicized value added tax movement is getting meager support from the accounting field. Indeed, an Accounting Today straw poll of 35 practitioners attending the AICPA's tax practice marketing [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Revocation of Harvey Rudman's CPA certificate by the Missouri State Board of Accountancy was the climax of a 13-year trail of fraud, forgery and deception. It [...]

DAVENPORT, IOWA -- McGladrey & Pullen is doubling its efforts to help its closely-held business clients capitalize on the growing international market. Plans call for the country's ninth largest accounting [...]

6 PHOENIX --The uncertainty surrounding the Clinton tax proposals is creating unprecedented marketing opportunities this year for practitioners. Addressing delegates at the American Institute of CPA's Tax Marketing and Managing [...]

Worried by what some call the profession's ticking time bomb, more and more accounting firms are beginning to set aside cash now for their future obligations to retiring partners. The [...]

HOUSTON -- Many local accounting firms are fast making up.. for clients lost to cutbacks in the space, oil and real estate industries by surging into litigation support. Firms as [...]

WASHINGTON -- When the lights went down in auditoriums in 34 cities across the country this month, nearly 5,000 Ernst & Young clients, executives and friends received, via television satellite, [...]

Tax accountants have closed the book on what is widely reported to be one of the most profitable tax seasons in years. But it may also have been the last [...]

BETHESDA, MD. -- A CPA-attorney has parlayed a $700,000 tax seminar business into an operation with more than $4 million in revenues by catering to the basic informational needs of [...]

The controversy over the specialist designation in the accounting profession is boiling up again. Lines are being drawn with the American Institute of CPAs and the Florida Institute of CPAs [...]

When sole practitioner Danny Outlaw's insurance premium for his twoperson staff doubled last year to $496 a month he scrapped his insurance program completely. Instead, he gave modest salary mcreases [...]

State CPA societies are going all out to help the beleaguered public meet its taxpaying obligations this season. Indeed, for some the 1993 campaigns are shaping up to be the [...]