CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Hood & Strong Announces Audit Management Promotions Hood & Strong LLP, a leading Northern California public accounting and business consulting firm, recently promoted three audit team members to new and expanded roles. Corder received his accounting degree from Texas Christian University and holds an M.S.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A record 68,639 students graduated with accounting degrees in 2010. Nearly 4 in 10 accounting graduates hired last year by CPA firms had master’s degrees, compared with 26 percent in 2008. By contrast, 43 percent of graduates hired had bachelor’s degrees, down from 56 percent in 2008.

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Accounting Insight

MARCH 8, 2023

Trouble finding qualified staff continues to be a top concern for accounting firms of all sizes, according to the AICPA’s 2023 Top Issues Survey. Consider non-traditional workers How many CPAs do you really need? Your firm obviously needs a certain number of licensed CPAs if you provide auditing services.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Someone you know spoke to NPR’s Marketplace for this story: Some accountants are turning away new customers this tax season Tax filing season is here and if you’ve been putting off finding a CPA, good luck. We get calls all the time saying, ‘Hey, my CPA just retired. Do you have room?’ Some are finding solutions overseas.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 18, 2024

HBA’s 40 years of expertise in Cleveland ranges from audits, financial statements, income taxes, estate planning, and financial planning and advisory services. Over 30 years ago I joined what was then Harting and Bishop CPAs. I had a passion to build client relationships and help our clients achieve their financial goals.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Except in the case of 90s rapper beefs, Tupac and Biggie were equally popular stars whereas in this case the AICPA encompasses the entirety of the profession in the United States versus Minnesota CPAs and the society that serves them. CPAs would need to hold multiple licenses and incur additional expenses.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The findings also reveal an opportunity to communicate with students about other benefits of a career in accounting. Nearly 9 in 10 senior executives believe creating more options for students to earn their CPA license would be a benefit, as do 58% of the students surveyed.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 18, 2023

Launched in 2021, the DFASP works in parallel with Deloitte’s MADE (Making Accounting Diverse and Equitable), a $75 million commitment to fuel greater racial and ethnic diversity in accounting and tax and generate more opportunities and leadership pathways for the next generation of certified public accountants (CPAs).

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Going Concern

JUNE 24, 2022

“You guys have clearly done a great job identifying accounting that is way beyond its date…to do nothing about this would be a shame.”. UPS, Dell, Others Call on SEC to Retool Climate Accounting Plan [ Bloomberg Tax ] Audit firms and companies including United Parcel Service Inc. 121 (SAB No.

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RitaKeller

JUNE 16, 2021

It seems that accounting students don’t see the value in devoting the time and energy to become a CPA. Share your partners’ salaries with your future CPAs and with college students you talk to or interview. Illinois CPA Society Releases New CPA Pipeline Report. How will your firm prepare for the future?

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Going Concern

MARCH 25, 2022

“I would have thought that accountants would be seen as boring, but effective and the perfect person to do a good job on your tax return,” Wijnand Van Tilburg, a study co-author and senior lecturer in the university’s psychology department, said in a statement last week. PCAOB Spotlight PDF here.

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Going Concern

APRIL 20, 2022

By 2014 however, the benevolent overlords at the AICPA noticed a troubling statistic: despite record enrollments, this abundance of accounting students did not appear to be pursuing the CPA exam as expected. In other words, more people than ever were graduating with accounting degrees but CPA exam candidate numbers stayed the same.

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Going Concern

JULY 14, 2022

Now the problem of waning interest in accounting as a major may or may not end up being a huge issue considering 42.7% of firm new hires are non-accounting grads, up from 31% the two years prior (data from the 2021 Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits report released this year).

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Going Concern

JANUARY 12, 2024

million in audit fees in 2022.) How did Deloitte, the auditing heavyweight watching over Tingo’s books, miss a scam that Hindenburg, an outsider, called out as painfully obvious? Audit Do former regulators improve the quality of audits? Audit Do former regulators improve the quality of audits? Tingo paid $1.6

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Going Concern

AUGUST 16, 2022

.” That’s what a stakeholder told me recently when we spoke about the accountant shortage and the growing gap between students getting accounting degrees and recent graduates sitting for the CPA exam. 150 hours is the rule and accounting is nothing if not a pile of rules. Or making 70 a passing score.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 19, 2023

By Girard Miller, Governing (TNS) S&P Global Ratings recently withdrew its credit ratings on 64 local governments after they failed to file financial updates on time because of staff shortages and delayed audits. Meanwhile, accounting firms were always happy to fill their off-season job calendars with state and local government audits.

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CPA Practice

MAY 30, 2023

Starting in 2024, the redesigned CPA exam places a greater emphasis on technology and analytical skills, as well as on tax, accounting, and audit. Regardless of a candidate’s chosen discipline, this model leads to full CPA licensure, according to the AICPA.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 11, 2022

These businesses have their financial advisory needs served by hundreds of thousands of small firm accountants and CPAs nationwide. Small business has unique needs for accounting services: primarily tax and advising, and secondarily day-to-day accounting needs to act as de-facto controllers and decision makers.

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