CPA Practice

JULY 14, 2025

Mary Girsch-Bock Professionals on the Move is a round-up of recent hiring, promotion and staffing announcements from around the accounting and tax profession. Patrick Hickman, CPA , joined the firm in 2023 following a decade in public accounting with other firms. He graduated with a B.S.B.A He graduated with a B.S.B.A

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Going Concern

MARCH 19, 2025

Each of them violated PCAOB Rule 3211 , Auditor Reporting of Certain Audit Participants, by “failing to accurately disclose on PCAOB Form AP the participation in firm audits of other accounting firms, including, among others, component auditors, shared service centers, and critical audit matter hub.”

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Firm Watch Accountancy firm BDO fined €1.3 BDO is going to appeal the decision.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Ramirez The Detroit News (TNS) A certified public accountant from Detroit convicted of stealing $14.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans between 2020 and 2021. Investigators said Parker, a licensed certified public accountant, recruited hundreds of small businesses in Pittsburgh and Detroit for the alleged scheme.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Audit Large Accounting Firms Will Have to Submit Financial Statements to U.S.

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CPA Practice

JULY 25, 2025

Mary Girsch-Bock Professionals on the Move is a round-up of recent hiring, promotion and staffing announcements from around the accounting and tax profession. Patrick Hickman, CPA , joined the firm in 2023 following a decade in public accounting with other firms. He graduated with a B.S.B.A He graduated with a B.S.B.A

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. LLP, with WAMY and its counsel, engaged in wrongful conduct during Marks’ engagement with WAMY.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) has announced the appointment of Robert W. Scott to a five-year term on the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Before entering the public sector, he was employed as an audit manager with the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche.

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Going Concern

APRIL 28, 2025

The proposal to eliminate the independent Public Company Accounting Oversight Board was published late on Friday by the leadership of the House Committee on Financial Services, for inclusion in the giant tax and spending bill being considered by Congress. ” Authors Walied Keshk, PhD, CPA and Edward J.

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Going Concern

APRIL 4, 2025

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Orlando pet supply store, accounting firm file for Ch. As in “literally who?”

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Going Concern

JANUARY 21, 2025

Reminder to take our 2025 Predictions for the Accounting Profession survey. KPMG UK is under investigation : The accounting firm KPMG is under investigation by the sectors UK regulator over its audit of the 2022 accounts of the gambling company Entain. We’re in accounting so have no idea what that is. For funsies.

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Going Concern

JULY 4, 2025

Accounting’s talent shortage is undeniable—50% of industry leaders say it takes 60 days or more to fill jobs [ Fortune ] A recent survey from accounting and finance talent outsourcing firm Personiv found that about nine in 10 finance leaders (87%) acknowledged a shortage exists, a rate that’s been on a steady upward climb from 63% back in 2020.

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Going Concern

MARCH 7, 2025

Particularly for deals done in 2020 and 2021. — Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) March 7, 2025 Audit Chair Williams To Host Chicago Forum for Auditors of Small Businesses and Auditors of Broker-Dealers [ PCAOB ] The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) that PCAOB Chair Erica Y. appeared first on Going Concern.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 18, 2023

After reading former MLB manager Joe Maddon’s recent book, The Book of Joe – cowritten with Tom Verducci –it struck me: The plight of the public accounting industry is not unlike that of Major League Baseball. Let’s look at some of the parallel problems facing both public accounting and MLB. Shifting demographics.

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. from 2020 and down 15.9%

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Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. The accounting firm is embroiled in a national scandal over its use of confidential information about proposed tax laws to drum up business. Have a safe Memorial Day. million over a decade.

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AdviceForTaxpreparers

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

My name is Bill Meador and I am writing a book to help tax staff succeed in a public accounting firm tax department. Since I do not plan to sell this book through a publishing company, I need another way to market the book to the public. Now I understand the first reaction of many accountants to the concept of selling anything.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 6, 2023

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and CPA Practice Advisor have announced the recipients of the 12th annual ‘Most Powerful Women in Accounting’ awards, which recognize leaders for their significant contributions to the profession.

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Going Concern

JULY 17, 2024

INSIDE Public Accounting is due to release their Top 500 list soon and in the meantime, they’ve asked a very important question: Will 2024 show another big boost in compensation? Since 2020, staff pay has increased by 15.7 The post Just How Much Have Accounting Salaries Increased in the Last Five Years?

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Public accounting firms in the United States reported strong top-line and bottom-line growth in their latest fiscal year results, driven by high demand for their services, according to a survey by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. That rate eclipses the 4.2%

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CPA Practice

JUNE 4, 2024

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and CPA Practice Advisor have announced the recipients of the ‘Most Powerful Women in Accounting’ awards, now in their 13th year, which recognize leaders for their significant contributions to the profession. This year’s nominees continue to carry this torch of excellence.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The 2023 AICPA Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits report (short: Trends report) was released last week and spoiler alert, it’s dark. Says the AICPA, bachelor’s degree completions in accounting dropped 7.8% 65,035 total accounting degrees completed for 2021-22.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 12, 2023

post-secondary accounting degrees fell sharply in the 2021-22 academic year, according to a biennial American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) report on trends related to accounting graduation rates, the CPA Exam and hiring demand by accounting firms. in the 2021-22 school year, while those earned at public schools decreased 3.3%.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 19, 2024

In addition to ongoing security and compliance needs, accounting firms face unique challenges when recruiting and retaining employees, offshoring, and increasing operational efficiencies. A veteran of accounting journalism, she also speaks at many accounting events, trade shows, and webinars.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The demand for skilled tax practitioners in the accounting profession has never been more critical. This surge in demand for CPA services comes at a time when experienced public accountants are exploring alternative career options, and fewer graduates are entering the profession. By Richard Lavina and Ralph Carnicer.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Last month we took a look at the 2024 Robert Half Salary Guide to get an idea what public accounting salaries should be in the range of next year, today it’s a similar report from Addison Group and their 2024 Workforce Planning Guide. The guide covers several industries, we are of course only here for accounting.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Although the accounting talent shortage seems like something that just popped out of nowhere and couldn’t possibly have been predicted, oh, a decade ago, I feel compelled to remind everyone that we here at Going Concern saw this coming. From Is There Really a Shortage of Entry Level Accountants? OK ready for the prophetic bit?

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Going Concern

AUGUST 11, 2022

If there’s anything we love here at Going Concern it is an accounting firm dick-measuring contest. INSIDE Public Accounting has blessed us with a fresh Top 500 Firms list which means lots and lots of measuring. We’ve included 2021 INSIDE Public Accounting Top 400 rankings in parenthesis for comparison: Deloitte (1).

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KROST

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Pasadena, CA – INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA) named KROST CPAs & Consultants Top 100 Firm, Top 100 Fastest-Growing Organic Growth Firm, Top 100 Fastest-Growing All Growth, and best of the best in 2021. The firm placed 81 st on the prestigious top 100 list, a substantial leap from 116th in 2020.

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KROST

APRIL 9, 2021

. – KROST CPAs and Consultants, Los Angeles-based firm, receives two new accolades from Accounting Today , Top 100 Firms, and Fastest-Growing Firms in the U.S. which is new to the regional list this year.” – Accounting Today. “It It means a great deal to us to receive these two awards from Accounting Today. KROST ranked No.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 8, 2022

2010) has penned an article for Yale Daily News that argues — quite well — why Yale needs an accounting program. There’s nothing wrong with the trades, in fact if you do the math many plumbers make more per hour than early-career public accountants (ouch again). Accounting is a trade.” That resume tho.

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Anders CPA

JULY 30, 2024

Anders has moved up from #77 to #73 on INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA)’s list of Top 100 Firms in the country for 2024. based accounting firms based on net revenues. This is IPA’s 34 th annual ranking of the largest accounting firms in the nation. The IPA Top 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 recognize the top U.S.-based

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Going Concern

APRIL 3, 2023

.” This is per the Canadian Public Accountability Board’s 2022 Annual Report [ PDF ]. The Globe and Mail reports : Problematic audits are on the rise at Canada’s accounting firms, according to the industry’s national regulator, which found issues in a third of the audits it examined last year, up from 28 per cent in 2021.

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Anders CPA

AUGUST 2, 2022

After joining INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA)’s list of Top 100 firms at #100 in 2021, Anders jumped 11 spots in 2022 to #89. based accounting firms based on net revenues. This is IPA’s 32nd annual ranking of the largest accounting firms in the nation. The IPA Top 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 recognize the top U.S.-based

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

1, 2020; merchants with a physical presence in the state and remote sellers with more than $100,000 in sales into Washington must report B&O tax as well as applicable sales taxes. The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts amended a regulation to determine the location where a sale is completed for local sales and use tax purposes.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It’s been a while since we’ve done an Accountants Behaving Badly megapost ( 381 days ago , actually), here’s some bad behavior you may have missed. Twice-Convicted Accountant Is Charged With Embezzling More Than $1.1 Palos Hills Accountant Indicted In $7.8M This stock photo is incredible.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Last week, we published a letter written to Fortune by a former CPA who pivoted to driving 18-wheelers and found far more career happiness than he ever would have in accounting (good for him). Accounting and being a CPA have been the worst personal decision and professional organization I’ve been a part since passing.

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