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Firm practice management

About this topic

Managing and addressing the needs of your clients and firm requires a broad range of competencies. These learning resources are designed to help you understand the knowledge and skills necessary to support the management of and manage a firm practice.

Good clients, bad clients: How to manage them all

This article offers tips firms that want to better manage their clients.

Article Firm operations Foundational

To my mentors and mentees: Thank you

This article offers insights on the value of mentors and key traits great mentors share.

Article Coaching & mentoring Foundational

How implementing value pricing can help your staff get more done

This article discusses how value pricing can help staff get more done because billing by the hour can remove incentives to work efficiently.

Article Firm operations Foundational

How firms find skilled staff during a hiring boom

In order to appeal to CPAs who have the right skills, firms need to take different approaches to market themselves.

Article Human capital Foundational

Q&A: Don’t believe these Millennial myths

Generational expert Jason Dorsey recommends ways employers can recruit (and keep) members of the often-misunderstood Millennial generation.

Article Team building Intermediate

Rethinking retention

This article discusses the importance of staff retention and how employers need to rethink the ways that they approach retention.

Article Talent retention Foundational

ESOPs help some CPA firms with retention, succession

This article discussed how, in the right situation, an ESOP can lead to greater engagement and morale among a firm's staff members.

Article Talent retention Foundational

How firms can overcome challenges and develop a diverse workforce

Recruiting a diverse workforce can be a challenge. This article discusses how the challenge can be overcome with a commitment to building relationships.

Article Team building Advanced

It’s all relative: How CPAs navigate family businesses

Family operated businesses offer unique challenges and rewards. This article discusses considerations to think about.

Article Firm operations Foundational

The importance of killing projects

This article explores an often overlooked aspect of project management - ending the project.

Article Project management Intermediate

Deflecting clients’ requests for defense and indemnity

This article discusses alternatives for CPAs to consider when they receive requests from clients for defense and indemnity.

Article Firm operations Intermediate

6 Ways to Up Your Networking Game

This blog post offers a few tips that will help you up your game, especially when meeting people at events or in large groups.

Article Communication Foundational