Vol. 4 No. 6, June 2006

Expanding Your Knowledge While Conserving Your Time.

Vol. 4 No. 6, June 2006

We are pleased to present a sample of the June issue of CPA Leadership Report. It contains synopses of the best articles from virtually all publications serving the accounting profession.

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Contents		Sources

Trends and Predictions from the Accounting Professions Best Thinkers		Bowman’s First Alert
Selecting, Managing and Compensating Partners		Practical Accountant
*Best Practices of Successful Firms		Accounting Today
Benchmark Your Paperless System		Journal of Accountancy
How to Recognize Burnout, and What to do About It		Partner’s Report
*A Recruiting Model from a 25-Year-Old Firm		CPA Insider
How Small Firms Can Improve Recruiting and Retention		Journal of Accountancy
An Innovative Fringe Benefit		Practical Accountant
Are Accountants Knowledge Workers or Manual Laborers?		Partner Advantage Advisory
Learning to Write—Why You Must and How You Can		CPA Journal
*Portals—Why You Must Start Planning for Them Now		Accounting Today
If Your Staff Doesn’t Know the Firm’s Goals, It Will Not Achieve Them		Insight
Preserving the Firm’s Intellectual Capital		Accounting Today
Value Billing Means More than Raising Rates		Accounting Web
Strategies Fail Because of Poor Execution		Insight
Staff Recruitment as a Marketing Process		Accounting Today
*Rules for Record Retention		AOMAR

*What is the Future of Outsourcing?		Insight
Sarbanes-Oxley—Will Small Public Companies be Exempt from 404?		AOMAR
Regulation and the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy		Practical Accountant
AICPA Forms Committee to Work on Obstacles Blocking Interstate Practice		The CPA Letter
Enhanced Financial Reporting		Practical Accountant

*Explosive Growth in Forensic Accounting		Accounting Today

*Public Relations Made Easy		Marketrends
*Don’t Frighten Your Prospects		Rainmaker Report
Can You Calculate ROI on Marketing Costs?		CPA Practice Management Forum

*Profit and Value Manager—Sample Version		CPA Leadership Report
*Index to Practice Management Concepts		CPA Leadership Report
Accountants’ Research Tools		AOMAR
Web Sites to Help with Financial Education		Accounting Today