CPAFMA Announces Raines and Tonkowich to Board
CPA Firm Management Association, leading the management of CPA firms by empowering and equipping them to success, today announces the addition of two board members. CPAFMA welcomes Jeremy Raines and Jon Tonkowich. Jeremy Raines has over 15 years’ worth of experience in a variety of high-growth industries working in business operations management, five and a half years’ worth of experience serving as Director of Operations for CPA ...
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2024 CPAFMA Technology Survey Findings Released
The CPA Firm Management Association recently concluded the 2024 IT Survey designed to identify the technology that member firms are using and the trends impacting their accounting firms in the year ahead. The survey was conducted between November 28 and December 12, 2023, with 140 firms participating*. The survey is representative of CPAFMA membership with 91% having 10 personnel or more and 40% (56 firms) having multiple offices. Two survey ...
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WISP Required! Key Components in Your Firm’s Written Information Security Plan*
While the FTC Safeguards rule designed to protect financial and PII (personally identifiable information) has been around for decades, as of June 9, 2023, compliance of various components including a WISP became mandatory! While primarily targeted at companies maintaining more than 5,000 client records (think tax returns), certain safeguard components are required for firms with less than 5,000 records such as the use of multi-factor ...
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2023 CPAFMA Digitally Driven Firm Benchmark Survey Findings Released
The CPA Firm Management Association completed its 2023 Digitally Driven (Paperless) Benchmarking Survey in December 2022 to find out the status of digitally driven office practices in member firms for the 2023 busy season. This “paperless” benchmarking survey has been conducted every two years since 2003 to help identify digital trends that member firms are adopting within their practices. This year 126 firms participated in ...
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Hybrid is Here to Stay: How to be Successful
What does ‘hybrid’ mean?No one thought this would happen—the embrace of hybrid operations. As hybrid operations transform the meaning of the office changes, and professionals are interacting with the office in new ways. For example, 69% of financial services companies expect to allow up to 60% of their staff to work remotely at least one day per week after the pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, only 29% of ...
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