Here's a conversation I have had more than once. A principal in an accounting partnership wants to see some firm growth. But when we start talking about measurable digital strategy, I often hear the same argument. Their existing customers, they say, came from relationships, not the internet. If that's how
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… drop in the number of jobless workers last year was the second-largest annual decline in four decades and brought the jobless rate — at 5.7 percent — to the lowest since at least 1976. That was a big surprise. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg at the beginning of 2017 forecast the unemployment rate
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Don't worry, you're not a cynical curmudgeon. Everyone thinks this. And that's because EVERY firm says it in their job postings. To most accounting firms, “Work/life balance” equates to a casual Friday once a month. Or maybe the partners attended a work/life balance seminar once. They didn't apply
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The U.S. has openly taken the protesters' side in the recent Iran events, while the European Union has remained neutral or aloof. French President Emmanuel Macron has even criticized the U.S. for taking sides. For all the moral satisfaction the U.S. approach can deliver to its advocates, the European
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board is proposing a new accounting standards update to reduce the costs of the new lease accounting standard and make implementing it a little easier. The proposed update would simplify some of the transition requirements and, for lessors, offer them a practical
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