6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (188+ words) Sooner or later a practitioner gets the call. A client's vendors, or the client's own customers, are receiving invoices and payment-change requests from an address inside the client's company, and nobody there sent them. The messages read correctly. They reference…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (266+ words) Confronted by a chronic talent shortage, fee compression and ever-increasing workloads, more U.S. accounting firms are turning to offshore talent. In earlier columns I've talked about the payoff from offshoring when it's done patiently and correctly. But there are some things…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (737+ words) An advisory firm owner told me something a few weeks ago that has been stuck in my mind ever since: "Kyle, most firms are aircraft carriers. They're too slow. We're more of a pirate ship." He was joking, mostly. It…...