How to Find an Accounting Firm with Values that Match Your Own! Finding a firm that matches your core values means you must first take time for introspection. This requires that you are brutally honest with yourself. What’s important? What’s not? Only once you’ve clearly defined your core values, will you be successful […]
Surprisingly Simple Steps To A Killer Accountant Resume Call it a resume. Call it a CV. It’s a sales tool. It’s job: to help you get in front of the hiring partner. Period! Make it clean and concise. A resume is an ad, not a user’s guide. The hard truth […]
Think about it. It wasn’t long ago that Slack, Facebook Live and Snapchat didn’t exist. Today, they’re go-to communication tools. The world is changing at a lightning pace. I came across an article by Hitendra Patil of Pransform, Inc. which lists 10 things that Accountants must deal with today that weren’t a concern […]
The Hard Facts about Soft Skills In today’s workplace, your soft skills are as important, maybe more important, than your technical skills. What are soft skills? They’re a cluster of personal qualities that make a person a good employee and co-worker. Solid soft skills are in demand. Technical skills are often […]
Career Lookout: Climbing the Ladder of Success There are many deeply personal reasons to change your employment situation. However, from a purely tactical point of view, there are four strategic reasons to change jobs within the same (or similar) career field three times during the first ten years of your career: Broader […]
If you’ve been working hard for any length of time, chances are you’ve experienced at least one humiliating career failure. Career “hiccups” can kill your spirit and make it difficult to regain your motivation and drive. Some of the “bad” things that happen to hardworking, well-meaning, capable people each day include: Missing […]
Information at our finger-tips. It’s the norm. As a society, we are dependent upon the ease and accessibility of technology. Real-time traffic updates, weather notifications and even calorie tracking. Yet more than half of CPAs are not ready or able to provide real time financial data to their clients. Shocking! There’s a resistance […]
Welcome to 2016. Time for a reality check. Are you working like it’s 2016 or 2006? If you haven’t completely dumped outdated ideas and processes, now’s the time for a change. Let’s face it, public accounting is still clinging to some stale business beliefs. CPAs need to regroup. Maintaining solely compliance-focused, traditionalist […]
Middle managers who succeed at leading upwards [Leading from the Middle, The Case for Middle Managers] are both skilled and artful in taking the reins to accomplish these tasks: Establish goals Plan projects Organize people Execute projects on time and on budget In order to lead from the middle of a firm, you must […]
Leading Upwards: The Case for Middle Managers There’s a serious lack of trust and confidence in senior leaders of organizations according to employee surveys. Middle managers are in a position to step into this gap and assist their overworked bosses by leading from the middle as well as throughout their networks. Middle […]
