The 2007 edition The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Accounting Profession® the benchmarking report and practice improvement guide, is now available at the discounted price of $330 (normally $396) exclusively to members from businessfitness(tm).  
 
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Accounting Profession® is a comprehensive and reliable guide on current practice management methods within the accounting industry. It provides a set of unbiased benchmarking criteria, to assess the performance and future development prospects of a firm. It is produced especially for accountants, based on information from accounting firms and accounting firm specialists. 
 
This report offers insights into:

• The best business decisions and the most expensive learning experiences of the high performing firms
• What the high performing firms are doing differently than the rest?
• How many staff should really be employed and what they should really be paid?
• How much revenue should be achieved?
• What is an acceptable level of productivity?

• Screening for character in hiring - 'character, not just attitude, explains the vast majority of someone's long-term performance and whether or not they will fit into your company'
• Plugging the gap – 'how to attract, manage and retain the best Generation Y talent'
• Nurture the partnership potential in your firm – 'get it right and you set your firm up for the future and of course yourself, as a partner with a great succession plan!'
• Strategic planning - are you asking the right questions?
• ow to get your practice ready for sale
• The art of specialisation
• Looking through your clients' eyes
• The myths and facts about going paperless.