Jane, a businesswoman, is standing at a fork in the road. She must either invest in product line expansion or cut costs to ride out the economic downturn. She is not interested in whether the books ...

When I picture an accountant, I think of someone in a smokey office wearing a green visor surrounded by indomitable stacks of paperwork, clacking away on an adding machine. My idea might be a little ...

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An accountant has many responsibilities, but these depend on who hires them and under what conditions. Accountants can be employed by large scale firms or individual clients who want their financial ...

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Financial advisors and accountants are both financial professionals who assist clients with different aspects of their financial lives. While both jobs involve financial analysis, there are ...

What clients value and what accountants think they value are rarely the same thing, and Joe Woodard makes the case that it's accountants who need to change their ideas around value, not clients.