To build a modern firm, you’ll need to leverage the right technology, automate work, and hire the right team to execute your vision. Hiring is hard enough. So where do you get started on your journey of building the right team for your firm? Join hiring expert Jeff Phillips as he presents an overview of […]
Could you use some help this tax season? Learn how to hire, onboard, and delegate work to remote, U.S.-based seasonal tax preparers and reviewers to make your life easier for the upcoming busy season. Join accounting recruitment expert and AccountingFly CEO, Jeff Phillips, as we lighten your load with proven solutions you can use for […]
How do you manage a remote team? And is it different than my office-based team? YES. In 2020 we found ourselves suddenly remote and had to make adjustments on the fly. As you plan your firm’s 2021, we’ll help you optimize your remote accounting team, including how to motivate and manage remote staff, how to […]
How do you manage a remote team? Is it different than my office-based team? YES. On January 25, 2021, Accountingfly Co-Founder Jeff Phillips, walks you through how to optimize your remote accounting team, including how to motivate and manage remote staff, how to organize and communicate with your team, and how to increase productivity. Learning […]
How does managing your team change remotely and how can you be more efficient while embracing the remote workplace? On September 23, 2020, Accountingfly Co-Founder Jeff Phillips, who has managed a virtual company for years, as he shares his best practices to make remote accounting work productive while reducing the stress your team is likely facing trying […]
You can stop turning away work by hiring freelance accountants. 25% of the U.S. workforce are freelancers, many of them are experts in accounting and finance. Learn the best ways to find and hire project and seasonal talent that can help you deliver a project, support your team during tax season, or fill in skills […]
Your accounting team is now working from home. Great, now what? How does managing your team change and how can you be more efficient while dealing with new distractions? On August 20, 2020, Accountingfly Co-Founder Jeff Phillips, who has managed a virtual company for years, shared his best practices to make remote accounting work productive while […]
Freelance accountants are the hottest staffing trend in the accounting industry. (Other than remote work. We already get 87 emails a day about remote work and we have a tons more on that topic). This interesting trend in accounting practice management is what Beth Dierker, Head of Fulfillment at Accountingfly, calls “the Uber-ification of the […]
Jeff Phillips, Co-founder of Accountingfly walked through the real applicable tactics to put into practice when it comes to remote working. This includes checking into “the office” and dedicating that you will focus on work, as well as unplugging and going “offline” when you are done. It can be easy to fall into a perpetual […]
Jeff Phillips, Co-founder of Accountingfly walks through how he manages his fully remote team, and what you can be doing to effectively maintain a productive and successful team. We are currently in the remote work and work-from-home era, we are foreseeing remote working, virtual teams, and work-from-home will become a more standardized thing in the […]
Jeff Phillips, Co-founder of Accountingfly walks through how the change to remote work has been easy for some and traumatizing for others. There is no question that it is the hottest topic for companies during COVID (outside of the stimulus package)! We can’t get enough of seeing how companies are faring with handling work-from-home, cloud […]
Are you part of an accounting team currently working from home? On April 8, 2020, Jeff Phillips, CEO of Accountingfly will give proven ways to help you how to be more productive, manage your remote accounting team, and get your stuff done while dealing with all the distractions you are facing. Have kids? Good, we’ll […]
On March 25, 2020, Jeff Phillips, CEO of Accountingfly walked through the solution to finding qualified remote accountants is to open up your job search to a U.S. based remote staff who work from anywhere. But not everyone is ready to hire a remote team. Get the gameplan to make your first remote hire and […]
The way we work has dramatically evolved over the years to an “always on” environment largely due to advancements in technology. Employees, especially millennials and boomers want more flexibility and in return are likely to stay with a firm longer when they can opt to work remote. This can feel intimidating to think about as […]
On April 9, 2019, Jeff Phillips, CEO of Accountingfly joined Playing Above the Line’s podcast, click here to listen. Jeff Phillips is an entrepreneur and business leader who has spent the last 19 years in the recruitment industry. He is currently a Co-Founder and CEO of Accountingfly, an online recruitment platform that matches accountants and bookkeepers […]
Ask moms and dads across the accounting industry why firms should offer competitive maternity leave, and you’ll likely get the same answer. “Because it’s the right thing to do.”
On October 11, 2017, Jeff Phillips, CEO of Accountingfly joined Thriveal’s podcast. In Episode 76, Jason Blumer and Greg Kyte discuss the emotional side of growing a firm beyond yourself (via The Emyth). How should an entrepreneur handle the business having needs of its own? Jeff Phillips from Accountingfly and Going Concern then joins them […]
Remote working is on the rise. In 2016, 22% of American employees did at least some of their work from home. And for those with advanced degrees over the age of 25, the number is even higher—a full 43% reported working remotely at least some of the time. It may feel natural to some accounting […]
Salary, benefits, vacation time—these are all important factors that will determine your firm’s ability to attract and retain high-quality accounting talent. But perhaps the most important factor is one that’s often overlooked: company culture. So how do you determine the current culture at your business? And if you don’t like what you find, how do […]
Whether its because they’re truly fascinating or simply due to the era of widespread and constant communication we currently live in, millennials are without doubt the most analyzed generation in human history. Depending on whom you listen to, millennials are either spoiled, entitled brats or motivated, ambitious big thinkers. They’re either killing the economy or […]
A recent Accountingfly poll of students and young CPA’s revealed that work life balance is more important than compensation when it comes to selecting an employer. This should serve as a wake up call – if you want to get and keep the best, your organization should take steps to increase work life balance for […]
Tech savvy | Always connected | Ambitious | Self-focused | Eager to learn | Don’t like to waste time | Entrepreneurial | Freedom-loving | Good multi-taskers | Feel respect should be earned by actions not titles | Want frequent feedback and validation | Fun-loving According to Jonathan Ebenstein, Partner/Managing Director, Marketing, at Skoda Minotti these traits are commonly exhibited by Millennials. “Their concerns have to be […]
We all know things are changing in accounting. There have been many stories about how audits are a commodity and how tax software has made it easy and convenient for individuals to prepare their own tax returns. Successful firms don’t compete on price alone because they understand that is not a winning proposition. They look […]
We have a saying about the recruitment issues facing public accounting, and while I’m certain we didn’t come up with it, we’re stealing it anyway: The race for talent is over. And the talent won. If you expect to hire, and more importantly keep high performers, you should know by now the talent has won. […]
You’ve probably heard the old adage about the importance of giving children roots and wings. You’ve probably also heard that the roots are the easy part—they are your values—and that the wings are not so easy. Sometimes you have to let them go and wait for them to come back, like a boomerang. Strangely, it’s […]
Accountingfly CEO Jeff Phillips presents his checklist for finding your next generation of leaders. That means being the kind of workplace millennial accountants want to join and communicating your employer brand the way young accountants digest career information. Jeff also reviews how to make the most of Meet The Firms Week 2015 (October 19-23) and […]
Recently, Accounting Today’s Top 100 Most Influential People opined on the most pressing issues facing our profession. Many of them talked about issues around talent. In fact, talent came up a lot. Here are some that got our attention: –Joe Adams, Managing Partner & CEO, McGladrey: In addition to firms taking individual action to […]
Firms everywhere are struggling to cope with the “Choose Your Own Adventure” approach millennials (and millennials at heart) take with their careers. Who are these brazen young kids that boldly shun the traditional career paths that decades of faithful CPAs have so nicely blazed for them? More importantly, how do we recruit/develop and retain these […]
Work/life balance (impossible in this 24/7/365 world) Generational change (inevitable) Corporate social responsibility (worthy and workable) Here’s the thing: There isn’t much down time in our busy lives. For many of us, time off only happens in micro-doses, so we need to feel fulfillment in all areas of our lives – including (maybe especially) our […]