This list tracks the growth of PRACTICE blogs defined as:
blogs written by qualified/chartered/certified public accountants, operating or working within public accounting firms of any size, demonstrating expertise to targeted client/prospect audiences.
As of Mar 28, 2010 we are aware of 154 accounting firm PRACTICE blogs (per above definition).
INDUSTRY (VERTICAL) NICHE BLOGS (30)
AGRICULTURE
- Farm CPA Today by Paul Neiffer of Hansen Neiffer
AUTO DEALERSHIPS
- Driving Successful Dealerships by Somerset CPAs
CHURCHES/RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
- Faith-Based Accounting a team blog by Pickens Snodgrass Koch (PSK)
- Ministry CPA by Corey Pfaffe
- The Ministry Blog a team blog by Stanfield & O'Dell
CONSTRUCTION/CONTRACTING
- Do You Know by Jerry Davis of Kirschner & Associates
- RECon (Real Estate and Construction) Blog by Cherry Bekaert & Holland
- Construction Business Management Forum by Glenn Carniello of Singer Lewak
DENTAL
- Dental CPAs by Tim Lott of Naden/Lean LLC
ENERGY
- Fueling the Business a team blog by RCO (Rylander, Clay & Opitz)
- Weaver Renewable and Clean Energy Source Blog NEWLY ADDED
GOVERNMENT
- Aronson Fed Point government contractor blog
- Government Contractor Blog by Cherry Bekaert & Holland
- Government Services Blog by Cherry Bekaert & Holland
HEALTHCARE
- Best Practices Blog by Jeremy Prickel of Jones & Roth
- Reed Tinsley's blog
- CPA.NET Blog by Mark Dietrich
- The Business of Medicine by Somerset CPAs
LENDERS
- Good Loans by Linda Keith
MANUFACTURING
- RSM McGladrey Mfg by Tom Murphy NEWLY ADDED
NON-PROFIT
- Aronson Non-Profit Report blog
- Basic Nonprofit Accounting blog NEWLY ADDED
- Center for Non Profit Management by Cindy Bergvall, Bee Bergvall & Company NEWLY ADDED
- Mission: Accountable a team blog by RCO (Rylander, Clay & Opitz)
- Non-Profit After Hours by Elko & Assoc
- Not for Profit Blog by Cherry Bekaert & Holland
- Nonprofit GPS by Henry & Horn
REAL ESTATE
- Affordable Housing Gurus by McKonly & Asbury
TRANSPORTATION
- Trucking Blog by Bell & Company CPAs & Business Advisors
WEB-BASED BUSINESSES
- Web Biz Finance by Tyler Wells NEWLY ADDED
OTHER MARKET SEGMENT BLOGS (NON-INDUSTRY SPECIFIC)(20)
INTERNATIONAL
- International Markets by Grant Thornton
- International Tax Blog by Cherry Bekaert & Holland
- PwC IFRS by Richard Keys, UK, on International Financial Reporting Standards
PUBLIC COMPANIES
- The Accounting Onion by Tom Selling, CPA, Ph.D.
- Gray Matters: Resources for Public Company CFOs & Controllers by Mark Bailey & Co
- PwC's Corporate Reporting Blog by David Phillips, UK
RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS
- His CPA and Christian Post CPA by John Dillard, Christian CPA Firm
- Joyful Christian Blog by Jeffrey Collins, OK CPA
SMALL-MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (INCL CLOSELY HELD AND FAMILY OWNED BUSINESSES)
- Elevate for entrepreneurs by Grant Thornton
- The Exuberant Accountant by Scott Heintzelman of McKonly & Asbury in PA
- GROCO Leadership Blog
- IFRS for SMEs by Grant Thornton
- Mid-Market Blog by Cherry Bekaert & Holland
- Small Business Blog by Cherry Bekaert & Holland
- SME Blog by Philip Woodgate of Goodman Jones in London
- SME Plus blog by Mercer & Hole in the UK
- Strategy Insights by Blackman Kallick NEWLY ADDED
- TASBUSters by Elko & Associates NEWLY ADDED
- THRIVEal by Jason Blumer of Blumer & Assoc NEWLY ADDED
WOMEN
- Women's Guide by Somerset CPAs
SERVICE NICHE BLOGS(43)
AUDIT
- Doan + Associates blog
BANKRUPTCY/INSOLVENCY
- Blogging the Dark Side by Herbein + Co
- InsolvencyBlog.com by Chris Laughton of Mercer & Hole in the UK
- MNP Insolvency Blog by Meyers Norris Penny Limited in Canada
BUSINESS VALUATION
- Clarity BV Blog by Brian Alwine
- Perspectives (also Economic Damages & Forensic Acctg) by Henry & Horne LLP
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
- 401(k) Plan Audit Blog by Dufek & Company LLC NEWLY ADDED
- The 411 on Employee Benefit Audits by Henry & Horne LLP
- RSM McGladrey ESOP Blog by Nancy Dittmer
FRAUD/FORENSIC ACCOUNTING
- Forensic Accounting Today by Jeff Moore
- Forensic, Fraud & Economic Damages by Kim Onisko
- Fraud Files by CPA Tracy Coenen of Sequence, Inc.
- Investigative Accounting Group (IAG) blog
- Rushmore Forensic, by Andrew Firth and Francois Van Der Merwe in Australia
FINANCE
- Abacus by David Chermak of AccounTemps
- Cicero Financial Management by Steve Lloyd in the UK
TAX
- Ask the Accountant by Ashraf Mehdi of Web Tax Office NEWLY ADDED
- Baldwin Tax Blog by Bob Baldwin and Don Hollerbach
- Bespoke by Grant Thornton
- Business Perspective and More Tax Tips by Stacie Clifford Kits
- CPA Sense by Milt Baker, retired MI CPA blogging since 2004
- Gina's Tax Tips by Gina Gwozdz
- GROCO Community Blog by GROCO in CA
- GROCO Tax Ninja by Alan Olsen
- Joe's Tax & Accounting Blog by Rapacki & Co
- Life Sure is Taxing by Gerald Slapkus of Elko & Assoc
- Roth & Co CPA Blog Tax Update blog by Roth & Company PC
- Leverage SALT blog by Brian Strahl of Baker Tilly Virchow Krause
- Michigan State and Local Tax blog by Ed Kisscorni of EHTC NEWLY ADDED
- SBS CPA Group Blog Indiana Tax Update blog by Mike Sylvester
- Somerset: Successful Tax Strategies by Somerset CPAs
- Tax Blagger in the UK by Cumulo Accountancy and Taxation (infrequent posts)
- Tax Guru--Ker$tetter Letter by Kerry M. Kerstetter, started in 1999
- Tax Plus Blog by Mercer & Hole in the UK
- TaxThink by Rick Taylor of Wipfli
- The Tax CPA by Monica Lawver of Thomas York LLP
- Untaxingly Yours by Brian Whitlock of Blackman Kallick NEWLY ADDED
TECHNOLOGY
- Energized Accounting by Toronto CA Bill Kennedy
- Financial Systems and Business Intelligence by Qualifed Accountant Paul Steynberg in South Africa
- From Greg's Head a technology blog by Greg Price of PKF Texas
- CPA Firm Technology Blog by CPA & technology advisor, Brian Tankersley
- The Tech Gap by CPA & technology advisor, Gregory LaFollette
GENERAL PRACTICE BLOGS(61)
- Accounting Diary by Charles Shindanyi in Zambia NEWLY ADDED
- Accounting for Non-Accountants Blog by John Day (dormant since Oct 07)
- Accounting for What's Next by Gainer, Donnelly & Desroches
- Accounting Heroes by ER Grove Chartered Accountants
- Accounting and Taxes Simplified by William Brighenti
- A Passion for Business by Joey Brannon of Axiom CPA
- Appletree Business Services by Steven Feinberg
- AZ Business Advisor by Scott Mitchem of Price Kong
- BCGCompany Blog by Brockman Coats Gedalian
- bercpa blogs by Brenda Richter, CPA on how to work with CPAs
- Bordeaux & Bordeaux, CPAs
- BSPJ Footnotes by Braver Schimler Pierce Jenkins LLP NEWLY ADDED
- Business Advisory Services by Mark Gwilliam, FCCA in New Zealand NEWLY ADDED
- Business Health Center by Geni Whitehouse, CPA, CITP
- C Todd & Co by Chris Todd in the UK
- Cole Gavlas Blog
- Cook Martin Poulson by Troy Martin NEWLY ADDED
- D'Arcangelo & Co
- Goodman Jones Chartered Accountants
- Gordon Advisors
- Gray Matter blog by Anders Minkler & Diehl NEWLY ADDED
- Grow Your Business by Linda Campanelli
- The Happy Accountant by Louise of Figurate Ltd. in the UK
- Helpful Business Tips by Tim Collier to help improve your business (dormant since Jan 08)
- Holden Associates Blog by UK firm
- Innovation by Grant Thornton
- Jeremy Newman-CEO Insights BDO International CEO
- Keiter Stephens Accounting Blog
- Kevin McCoy, CPA blog NEWLY ADDED
- LBMC Biz Buzz by LBMC NEWLY ADDED
- Lougen Valenti Bookbinder & Weintraub blog NEWLY ADDED
- McKonomics Economic Recovery blog by McKonly & Asbury
- McQuade Brennan by Brian McQuade
- The Mercifully Brief Accounting Blog by Michael Sack Elmaleh
- Meyers Norris Penny blog
- MFA Business Insights by Moody, Famiglietti & Andronico in MA
- Mind Your Own Business by Bee Bergvall and Co, CPAs
- MTA Optima Blog by Matthew Tol in Ballarat, Australia
- Musings of a Mild-Mannered Accountant, by Ian Harris in Melbourne
- Nienow & Company News by Paul Nienow in CA
- Number Insights by an Omaha, NE staff accountant
- Outsourcing Financial Services by Vandna Sohvi, Ashish Financial Services, India
- Perspective by Brotemarkle Davis & Co
- PG Wire by Piccerelli, Gilstein & Company NEWLY ADDED
- Pittsburgh CPAs by Case Sabatini (dormant since Feb 08)
- re: The Auditors by Francine McKenna
- Recovery Resources for Individuals by Cherry Bekaert & Holland
- RINA blog
- Schneider Downs Insights
- Skeptical CPA by George Weinbaum with accounting related news
- Somerset Business Success Strategies by Howard Cox of Somerset CPAs
- Stop IFRS by Diantie Persaud NEWLY ADDED
- The Potts Report by David Potts of Potts & Company
- Thomas York, LLP
- Tim's Vista by Tim McKey, business thoughts from a value pricing firm in Baton Rouge
- Ungar Cover by Joel Ungar of Silberstein Ungar
- WatkinsWire by Watkins Meegan NEWLY ADDED
- Wendroff CPA - by Darren Wendroff
- Where Every Penny Matters by Nicholas Pennewell
- Whitlock Company blog
- Wray Rives CPA blog
ACCOUNTING FIRM PODCASTS
Some accounting firms use Podcasting (not in our count because these are not blogs):
- Bonadio Group Viewpoints provides recorded info (& pdfs) for various sectors and demographic groups
- Deloitte interesting podcasts that cover 8 subjects across 8 sectors
The following blogs aren't in our count because they don't meet our definition of "practice blogs." But as blogs by CPAs and CAs or non-profit organizations serving them, we share them here:
CPA or CA "NON" PRACTICE BLOGS
FIRM NEWS BLOGS
- News & Views by Mercer & Hole in the UK (infrequent posts)
- RSM McGladrey Golf Blog by Team McGladrey: their LPGA an PGA Tour players
RECRUITING BLOGS (targeting laterals and/or students)
- HR Dirt by Cross, Fernandez and Riley
- People Plus blog by Mercer & Hole in the UK written for dual audience: tips for job seekers and situational advice for other HR professionals
- PKM Off the Ledger day-in-the-life stuff
- PS on Campus by Peterson Sullivan LLP
- PwC People - day in the life stuff (UK, of course)
- Success Blog by Barnes Dennig HR Director, Bill Bagley
- Success Starts Here by RSM McGladrey | McGladrey & Pullen
- Women's Initiative Blog (aka WIN) by Deloitte shows day-in-the life, too. It began as an internal blog and became "public" in early 2007
FOR FELLOW PRACTITIONERS (peer to peer audiences)
- A Counting School makes "the world safer for those without a calculator"
- AccMan Pro by Dennis Howlett
- Accounting for a Detoured Economist by Chris Silvey (dormant since Mar 08)
- Accounting for Investments by Venkata Subramani, CA in India
- Ambitious Accountants by Mark Lee, CA, past chair ICAEW's tax faculty
- The Analyst's Accounting Observer By CPA and CFA Jack T. Ciesielski
- Big Four Alumni Blog
- Big4Guy Confessions, Thoughts, Observations and Musings of a Big 4 consultant
- Confessions of a CPA by Monica Lawver
- Dave Rachford's CPA Marketing Center Blog Sharing tax accounting marketing advice
- Innovative Practice Management by Mark Bailey & his team
- PwC Gender Agenda Blog by Cleo Thompson in the UK on women's issues
- RF Resources by CPA Robert Fligel on mergers and partner search
- RootWorks leadership initiatives for the accounting profession by Darron Root
- The Anonymous Accountant Blog trials and tribulations of a Big 4 auditor (last post Mar 08)
- The Eyeshade by Michael Ramos
- The Lazy CPA blog by Nick Hodges
- The Small Practice Accountant by "David" of a mystery firm in the UK
BY PROFESSORS OR STUDENTS
These blogs aren't in our count because they don't meet our definition of "practice blogs":
BY FACULTY
- 21st Century Taxation by Prof. Nellen, MS Taxation Program, San Jose State U
- Accounting Coach by University of Wisconsin-Whitewater instructor Harold Averkamp, MBA, CPA
- Accountant Jokes and Fun by Mark Lee, CA, past chair ICAEW’s tax faculty
- CPA Review Blog by Roger Phillip, CPA of Roger CPA Review
- Globaliconta by CPA Hernan Rodriguez (in Spanish)
- McClelland by a Purdue Accounting Prof. (last post Sep 06)
- MyCAsite helping Canadian students become Chartered Accountants
- The Summa by Professor David Albrecht
- Tick Marks by Dan Meyer, accounting faculty (seems about half for cpas, half for public)
CPA CANDIDATES/STUDENTS
- Accounting Elf by unknown
- Cooking Accountant
- CPA Pledge is by "Jim" in Connecticut
- Exam Cram is a blog sponsored by NJ Society of CPAs
- Journey to Success-My Finance and Accounting Blog by Michael Fanelli
- Smart Cookie, CPA (to be)
STATE/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY and ASSOCIATION BLOGS(non-profit only)
These blogs aren't in our count because they don't meet our definition of "practice blogs":
COUNTRIES
- Australia: Alex Malley blog, president of CPA Australia
USA
- Arizona: Arizona Society of CPAs Blog
- Colorado: Colorado Society of CPAs Blog
- Maryland: CPA Success blog
- Maryland: New CPAs (for new and or young accountants)
- Maryland: Legislative Insider on newest developments
- Missouri:Missouri Society of CPAs blog
- New Jersey: NJSCPA Exam Cram Blog
- New York: NYSSCPA Blog
- Ohio: OSCPA Blog
- Texas: TSCPA Governmental Affairs blog
