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5 Phrases Established Leaders Should Never Say Again – Journal of Accountancy

Try these alternative approaches to better communicate with your best young talent. By Jennifer Wilson August 1, 2016 Today’s up-and-coming leaders have many career options, and their phones, emails, and LinkedIn accounts are being “hit up” every day by recruiters and others who are interested in potentially employing them. That’s why established leaders committed to retain their best and brightest need to pay more attention to the things they say that frustrate, disappoint, and sometimes even gross out their future leaders. In this article, we’ll explore five phrases established leaders should never say again and suggestions for an alternative approach that their young talent might better appreciate. Never say this…

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Accounting Today: Treasury Proposes to End Strategy for Estate and Gift Taxes

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AUGUST 3, 2016) BY MICHAEL COHN The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have issued proposed regulations that would eliminate a tax-planning strategy for minimizing estate and gift taxes. The proposed regulations concern the valuation of interests in corporations and partnerships for estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax purposes. They involve the treatment of certain lapsing rights and restrictions on liquidation in determining the value of the transferred interests. The proposed rules would affect certain transferors of interests in corporations and partnerships and aim to prevent the undervaluation of the transferred interests. Mark Mazur, Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the Treasury Department, released a blog post Tuesday…

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117 No-Brainer Ways to Attract New Clients

FREE: 117 No-Brainer Ways to Attract New Clients After seeing this, 9 in 10 accountants put at least one of these strategies to work in their practice. FREE INSTANT DOWNLOAD: 117 No-Brainer Ways to Attract New Clients (PDF, 28 pages) Click to download by Rick Telberg I call these “no-brainers” because, although they require some thought and effort, there’s nothing revolutionary about any of them. In fact, each of these tips is something I’ve personally seen work successfully in real-life. These are the activities that are making small practices into large ones, and low-earning accountants into high-earning money machines. Our research proves it. You can’t afford to ignore the 90%…

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Accounting Today: Is This the ‘End of Accounting’? Maybe So

The standard GAAP accounting measures are less and less useful to investors, according to a new book with the provocative title, “The End of Accounting.” by Michael Cohn The book, by New York University accounting and finance professor Baruch Lev and SUNY Buffalo accounting professor Feng Gu, is entertainingly written and makes some powerful arguments, backed by extensive statistical analysis of thousands of companies and their financial statements. The standard GAAP accounting measures are less and less useful to investors, according to a new book with the provocative title, “The End of Accounting.” The book, by New York University accounting and finance professor Baruch Lev and SUNY Buffalo accounting professor Feng…