Practice news March 2011

Practice Management

Flat world update: Use social media internally to flatten your organization chart

Commerce is now global, accessible, and available to all– the world has been deemed flat With all this talk about how flat the world is, it’s amazing how hierarchal our companies and institutions are, especially as professional service firms whose titles create a class system of their own.
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Year one, ObamaCare report card shows health care costs rising

As health care reform marks its one-year anniversary, a new Deloitte report reveals that consumers are spending $363 billion, or 14.7 percent more, on health care than traditionally reported in official government accounts.
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Practice Management

Minimize personality conflicts in your workplace

The motherly instruction to "play well with others" doesn't always travel from the playground to the workplace. Resolving staff conflicts is an ongoing issue faced by supervisors.
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Don’t go another year without a succession plan!

If a key partner decided to retire or became disabled, would your firm have a plan for transitioning clients, choosing a replacement leader, and ensuring continuity of firm vision and strategy?
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Going through the motions: Only 1/3 of workers are engaged in their jobs

Remember mood rings – those unstylish color-changing rings that would give you away if you were embarrassed, in love, or just having a hot flash? Now Globoforce has announced the 21st Century version of the mood ring – the Globoforce Workforce Mood Tracker.
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Voice of the Editor

Even though any accounting auditor would tell you it seems like there are an awful lot of tax accountants out there, surely one-third of the country isn't made up of tax preparers, so it's rather startling news to learn that one-third of Americans like to do their taxes. Who knew?
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Gail Perry, CPA
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, AccountingWEB
editor@accountingweb.com
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This Week on AccountingWEB

Bill Walter of Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates and Harold Gaar of TravisWolff LLP weigh in on mobile technology use while employees are at work.
WestArk RSVP and Fayette County Community Action Agency – organizations that received grant funding through the IRS Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) program – spoke with AccountingWEB about how they assist senior citizens in their communities.
CPA Robert Raiola, who heads the Sports & Entertainment Group of Fazio, Mannuzza, Roche, Tankel, LaPilusa, LLC, talks NFL player income taxes with AccountingWEB.
Retiring KPMG Centennial Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business Robert May, PhD talks with AccountingWEB about his rewarding forty-three-year career.
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