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In ongoing accounting crunch, where to go for sales tax help?

TaxConnex

Your sales tax obligations depend on knowledge and that knowledge often resides in a professional tax specialist (usually an accountant) who helps your company meet its sales tax obligations. This is a complicated time for sales tax obligations – and a terrible time to try to hire an accountant. There were about 1.65 in 2022, up 1.3%

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In 2019, Academic Researchers Tried to Answer the Question ‘Is Accounting a Miserable Job?’

Going Concern

Stumbled across this interesting paper by authors Paul Madsen and Jeffrey Piao today and thought it worth sharing despite its age (2019). Misery in accounting is timeless after all. The abstract: Popular culture portrays accounting as a miserable job. However, we find that accounting is not a miserable job.

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SEC upped accounting, auditing enforcement in FY 2023

Accounting Today

The 83 publicly disclosed accounting and auditing enforcement actions represented the highest number of actions initiated since FY 2019.

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Accounting Firms Continue to Prioritize Work-Life Balance

CPA Practice

The Philadelphia Inquirer (via TNS) Molly Kowal decided to become an accountant in part because she knew it would be a stable career. My generation is more focused on maintaining that work-life balance,” said Kowal, who works at accounting firm EisnerAmper in Philadelphia. “A By Lizzy McLellan Ravitch.

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J.Crew Reveals Online Accounts Were Hacked In 2019

PYMNTS

Clothing company J.Crew said an unknown hacker accessed some of its customers’ online accounts almost a year ago, according to reports. Although the attack occurred in 2019, the company only now revealed that an unknown number of customers had been affected by the attack.

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Accounting Professor Indicted on Fraud Charges Over Embezzlement Claims

CPA Practice

The charges identified Kroger as a professor of business and accounting, but does not specify where. According to the indictment, Kroger and a business partner identified only as “Individual A” set up a Wyoming-based company called Lone Star Municipal Finance Company LLC in October 2019.

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Have you inherited an IRA or retirement plan account after 2019 from someone other than your spouse?

LSLCPAs

If you inherited an IRA or retirement plan account after 12/31/19, you are required to take required minimum distributions (RMDs) beginning in 2023. The post Have you inherited an IRA or retirement plan account after 2019 from someone other than your spouse? appeared first on LSL CPAs.

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