As the economy recovers, the task of attracting and retaining top-quality staff is becoming increasingly important to all organizations. The challenges are particularly important in the financial sector, where the supply of strong candidates for accounting and financial positions rarely meets the demand, especially in clustered urban markets where firms and their clients are…

In January 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and 15 other federal agencies published its final revision of the Common Rule to protect the rights of clinical research patient volunteers. The Common Rule is also known as the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects. It was published in 1991 and…

  In speeches on the campaign trail in 2016, Trump promised to dismantle much of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. On February 3, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Treasury Department to make legislative recommendations for reform within 120 days. The order also delays implementation of the fiduciary…

It’s a miracle, but busy season is over! It’s high time you handed in your resignation and looked for greener pastures. Ok, that was a bit corny, wasn’t it? But, wait–before you roll your eyes, there’s one thing we’d like to ask you. If we told you that a particular consulting company wants to pay CPAs from one of the Big…

In Part 3: Recruiting Quality Patient Volunteers For Medical Research, we’re going to discuss marketing strategies that work. Leveraging Social Media To Recruit Volunteers. It has been reported that researchers spend nearly a third of their time on recruitment and enrollment. Yet, studies show that more than 70% of all nationwide trials fail to recruit enough volunteers for their projects….