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How can the Washington Department of Labor and Industry help your small business clients? In this article, L&I's Small Business Liaison Rose Gundersen dispels five myths about the department. Read on for a host of resources you can use to help your clients.

If you need to hire a staff accountant, could you ignore cultural or demographic differences and simply hire the best candidate based on previously established, objective criteria? Don't be so sure. Though we like to think we’re impartial in our decision-making, it’s often the case that our unconscious beliefs affect our choices. Read more to learn how to reign in your unconscious bias.

Congratulations to these Washington CPAs on their appointments to AICPA committees, subcommittees, boards, and task forces. Click through to read the full list of appointments.

Treat employees like owners, and those employees will act like owners. That's one of the principles of open-book management, a concept that has been slowly embraced by organizations around the world. Read more about how companies are successfully using open-book management styles to reach new levels of efficiency.

The CPA profession is undergoing a radical transformation. Words like disruption and innovation are working their ways into the accounting conversation to a degree that we didn’t see previously, and this shift will undoubtedly have profound effects on the profession. Are you ready?

Are you are a business professional who is interested in how you can contribute and make a difference? Read this article to find out what's going on in Washington state, particularly with regards to the accounting profession, and how you can get involved.

The benefits of getting involved in the WSCPA are so much more than merely providing a potential safety net in case your job disappears. Read more from current WSCPA board chair Dave Miniken, CPA, CGMA, on how to make the most of a WSCPA membership.

Compliance and ethics management can be a bit like exercise: Intentions may be good and you can put a plan into place, but your results won’t be superb unless you continue to work at it with diligence. Keep your firm's compliance culture strong with these tips.

Do you want to help give away $250,000 in scholarships? Are you interested in helping students achieve their dream of becoming a CPA? If so, please consider volunteering your time and talent to be part of the review team for the 2017 Accounting Scholarships offered by the Washington CPA Foundation and the Washington Society of CPAs.

As I prepare to retire next year after 40+ years in the CPA profession, it gives me cause to think back about how things have changed in our profession. I am sure all of our Baby Boomer members will recognize these changes and will think of many more of them than I will recall. Where to start...

When Peter Erickson, the WSCPA's student ambassador at Western Washington University, was unable to secure an internship in 2015, he set out to achieve something few attempt: Start passing the CPA Exam while still a student. Read more about his experience.

Students, it’s recruiting season! Are you wondering how you can make your resume stand out in a sea of applicants? Use these four tips to turn drab resume bullet points into meaningful previews of the value you could add to a firm or company.

Washington CPA Foundation Accounting Scholarship Recipient Adama Kandeh has a unique story explaining his intense desire to become a CPA. It’s a passion combined with a tenacious spirit that drives him to double major in accounting and finance at the University of Washington (UW). Read it all here.

The world faces increasing risks related to cyberattacks—hacks, phishing scams, data breaches and other threats. CPAs are uniquely positioned to communicate an organization's cybersecurity risk to relevant stakeholders. The AICPA is proposing two criteria to standardize the way CPAs communicate this information. Read on to find out what the criteria are, and how you can weigh in.

Excel 2013 introduced Flash Fill, a great feature for manipulating data in a number of ways. You can use Flash Fill to format data, parse or split apart data, and concatenate or join data. Read on to learn how you can use Flash Fill to clean up a QuickBooks-generated Trial Balance report.

The WSCPA is the only professional association advocating for CPAs in Olympia. When you contribute to the CPAPAC, you provide essential support to the WSCPA’s advocacy efforts. Read on to see what the CPAPAC has accomplished in recent years.

A new era of business is dawning as organizations look for finance staff with a broader mix of competencies. Employers are demanding finance professionals with management accounting and business skills, as well as people and presentation skills. The fact is, there is a shortage of such people. Will you help fill the need?

The United States House of Representatives passed a bill that would establish a uniform national standard governing the withholding of state income taxes for nonresident employees on September 21, 2016. Read more about how this important step may help simplify our tax code.

We know that new technology means new risks, new ways for bad actors to try and compromise your security and steal your information. To help you stay protected, here are some tips for how you can beef up your email and mobile security...Read more.

The Washington Society of CPAs is now accepting nominations for its Board of Directors for 2017-2018! Learn more about the impact a board member can make, and find out how to nominate someone you think would make a great addition to the WSCPA Board!