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A Career in Accounting Means Long Hours and Stress – But Also Purpose, Community and Meaningful Impact

CPA Practice

By Twyla Verhelst, CPA. Preparing and filing your taxes are unavoidable tasks that it’s safe to say most people don’t enjoy. Tax time can be especially daunting for small business owners and the self-employed, who must organize their financial information for the year and ensure they have set aside enough money to cover their tax liabilities.

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A Career in Accounting Means Long Hours and Stress – But Also Purpose, Community and Meaningful Impact

CPA Practice

By Twyla Verhelst, CPA. Preparing and filing your taxes are unavoidable tasks that it’s safe to say most people don’t enjoy. Tax time can be especially daunting for small business owners and the self-employed, who must organize their financial information for the year and ensure they have set aside enough money to cover their tax liabilities.

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Beyond the Numbers

Intuitive Accountant

Sage's Ed Kless goes inside what the movement toward subscription-based accounting means for the industry.

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3 Tips to Avoid Tax Season Burnout

CPA Practice

Being an accountant means that work often comes in ebbs and flows. The tide moves in every quarter, and there is always tax season. It’s stressful; that’s just part of the business, right? Yes, stress is expected, but burnout is entirely different. From the Thomson Reuters blog. Republished with permission.] What is burnout?

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Survey Says: Virginia Accountant Salaries By Experience Level

Going Concern

Accountant III +10.7% A few other points from the executive summary: Among non-accountants, mean salaries for staff in support positions include Finance ($109,013), IT ($91,000), Human Resources ($87,727), and Marketing ($78,882). years $97,145 $100,000 Senior Manager: 10-14.9 Supervisor/Manager I +12.7% Senior Managers +13.9%

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Number of CPA Exam Takers Continues to Dwindle

CPA Practice

However, this rule change has no immediate effect on the individual state boards of accountancymeaning that each one would have to adopt the extra 12-month period before it takes effect in their state.

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How to grow your CPA firm in the midst of change

ThomsonReuters

Taking full accountability means firms need to push themselves to use all of the resources they can to make a successful change happen. It’s important to acknowledge your firm’s strengths and weaknesses and see where real change can occur.