Management of an Accounting Practice Handbook

When it comes to practice management, AICPA's MAP Handbook is the premier source for information and guidance on the best ways to:

• Sell or merge your firm
• Develop and expand your practice
• Hire professional and administrative staff
• Use technology in your practice
• Compare your firm's statistics with other firms
• Start or dissolve a firm
• Reduce your firm's exposure to malpractice litigation

Annual Updates

AICPA updates the MAP Handbook annually to keep you informed of the latest issues and strategies in the world of practice management. Annual updates are shipped and billed automatically with a 60-day return policy. Updates are billed at $98.75 each, $79.00 for AICPA members.

Each volume is packed with advice to boost your firm's productivity and profitability:

Volume One — Developing an Accounting Practice: starting a practice, strategic and operational planning, marketing, expanding, purchase/merger of an accounting practice, forms of practice.

Volume Two — Administration: financial, billing and collection, client engagements, review procedures, report processing, site selections information systems.

Volume Three — Personnel: recruiting, selecting professional and support staff, training and professional development evaluation, motivation, personnel policies, compensation and fringe benefits, personnel problems.

Owner issues: owner capital, owner compensation and fringe benefits, selection and evaluation of partners, owner separation and dissolution of firm.

Management Data: comparative firm operating statistics (by firm size) — including Texas Society on Management of an Accounting Practice Survey and survey of participants at the AICPA Practitioners Symposium.