November 2010 Best Practices Tips

November 2010 Best Practices Tips

Every month we select some of the best ideas for practice improvement from the accounting literature. Here are the selections for November 2010. For the archive, click here.

BEST PRACTICE LINK TO ARTICLE RESOURCE IN CPA LEADERSHIP REPORT DATE OF ARTICLE
Management/People/Culture

Value Pricing: Continue to track hours to control costs. Offer hourly bookkeeping services plus value pricing for some clients.

Value Pricing--An Art and a Science November 2010

Accountability: To achieve accountability, concentrate on behavior and the way things are done rather than checklists and production measures.

Accountability is Not Easy November 2010
Internal Competition: Stop measuring yourself against your teammates and begin to measure yourself against your external peers.
Cut Out the Competition with Your Coworkers November 2010
How to Make Your People Better: Stop obsessing with your own talents and start helping your people develop theirs.
Empower Your Team to Succeed
November 2010