Art of Accounting: Giving a speech and getting feedback

Public speaking is a serious responsibility and must be approached that way.


SEC recommends companies consider cyber threats to accounting controls

The Securities and Exchange Commission released a report Tuesday warning publicly traded companies they should consider cyber threats when they implement internal controls.


Recruitment and retention of your business developers

What’s more important to your firm: someone who can do the work or someone who can sell the work?


Look to their retirement

Helping employees prepare for their life after work will keep them on board until then.


Accountants Confidence Index — October 2018

The ACI rebounded this month from a decline in the previous month.


SSF founder Steve San Filippo dies

He founded one of Northern California’s leading accounting firms in his home in 1977.


Top-spending GOP group says little of Trump tax law in campaign

The issue hasn’t been the political boon party leaders hoped it would be.


AICPA names 2018 'Leadership Academy' graduates

Forty-one up-and-coming professionals graduated from the American Institute of CPAs’ 10th annual training and education program in Durham, N.C.


Trump tax law fails to kill off corporate America’s prized dodge

U.S. corporations have largely abandoned the contentious deals that allowed them to shift their addresses abroad for a lower tax rate. Yet a key part of the transactions is continuing quietly even after President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul.


Invest in people as people

Beyond technical training, top firms help staff improve themselves.