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Leadership

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Based on the AICPA Competency Framework: Employee Benefit Plan Auditing, these learning resources are designed to enhance CPAs’ knowledge and skills necessary to perform high-quality employee benefit plan audit engagements. Use these resources to build competencies around auditing employee benefit plans and set yourself apart in the market so that clients and employers feel confident in your work and ability to conduct these audits.

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Ways to reduce the gender pay gap

This article provides some ideas that your organization can use to help close the wage gap between male and female accountants .

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Manager Survival Series: Managing conflict

This article provides some steps to take when your employees aren’t getting along:

Article Team building Intermediate

What firms must do to better develop their people

This article shares six simple ideas to improve your firm’s feedback.

Article Talent retention Intermediate

How to increase CPAs’ happiness on the job

This article discusses three factors that have the most impact on employees well-being: having hope, a calling, and autonomy.

Article Motivating & inspiring Advanced

How to manage underperformers

This article provides the strategies for dealing with the underperformers on your team.

Article Driving performance Intermediate

7 communication tips for new tax managers

This article provides advice for effective communication during busy periods and throughout the year.

Article Communication Foundational

Manager Survival Series: The chronically late or absent employee

This article offers tips on to how to handle the chronically late or absent professional employee in the typical workplace.

Article Driving performance Intermediate

Building trust with your team

The primary goal of leaders who want to bring about change should be to build trust at all levels. This article provides strategies to build trust within your team.

Article Team building Intermediate

9 skills of a great organisational coach

This article reminds us of critical coaching skills we need both in individual and corporate coaching.

Article Coaching & mentoring Intermediate

How to handle poor performers

This article provides tips guidance for identifying and dealing with poor performance.

Article Driving performance Foundational

Be strategic when awarding raises and promotions

Having a solid review and reward process is a way to develop a sustainable and effective workforce. This article provides advice for a successful review period.

Article Driving performance Advanced

Millennial women: How to woo a new generation of employees

Millennial women make ideal employees. Read this article to learn what is needed to recruit and retain this demographic of the workforce.

Article Team building Foundational