10 strategies for accounting success from Ed Mendlowitz

Accountants often learn best from their fellow accountants, those who have faced and overcome the same challenges and obstacles — or at least shared the same frustrations. 

In his long career as a practitioner and firm owner, Ed Mendlowitz faced and overcame just about every challenge an accountant can, and in his slightly-less-lengthy career as the author of the “Art of Accounting” column for Accounting Today, he laid out exactly how he solved all those problems, as well as shared his many creative and innovative strategies for growing a firm, delivering extraordinary value to clients, managing staff, navigating a career in the profession, mitigating the insanity of tax season and much, much more.

Ed recently submitted his 600th and last column, but he was kind enough to share the selection below of his favorites; while the majority of his columns offered timeless advice on management and running a business, these look likely to remain particularly relevant no matter the current trends.