Conference Season: Globalize Your Efforts

By Steven E. Sacks, CPA, CGMA, ABC It’s now conference season. The deadline-driven work is taking a short respite allowing CPAs and other firm professionals to learn what is going on in the profession. How to grow the… Read More

Suggested Reading: Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In

By Steven E. Sacks, CPA, CGMA, ABC Today’s rapid-fire communication dynamic expects quick responses to emails, texts and even the old-fashioned telephone call. An information or idea exchange requires quick analysis and quick decision making. If something requires… Read More

Is Your Firm’s Culture a Magnet or a Repellent?

By Steven E. Sacks, CPA, CGMA, ABC In the famous words of management guru, Peter Drucker, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Accounting firms are starting to get this message because now they are instituting initiatives that would have… Read More

Distraction Can Create Dramatic Impact on Production

You have a strategic plan in place, a business plan created and a budget for implementing the prioritized actions. You are all set move your practice to the next level and have all your key people starting on… Read More

Can We Please Refer to Accounting as a Profession?

By Steven E. Sacks “A profession by any other name…” (With apologies to William Shakespeare) Profession n. calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation. Maybe I am just cranky, or maybe I have a… Read More