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What Does the Next Generation of Accounting Look Like?

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The Platform Accounting Group was created to address the changing landscape and now operates 28 (and growing) boutique firms across the United States. Accounting careers are shifting away from a linear path The industry is moving towards more merit-based promotions, more career pathways, and greater opportunities.

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Guy Who Works at a Firm Actually Named FML on Why Accounting Is a Great Career

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When this opinion piece popped up in my Google News I was hoping for a refreshing take on the benefits of accounting as a career and some passionate cheerleading. Maybe a field report from some young, enthusiastic former partner who started in public and ended up controller at a cool startup or doing taxes for NBA stars or something.

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Where Have All The Accountants Gone?

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This exploration aims not just to highlight this trend but to delve deeper into its roots and propose a rejuvenated approach for the accounting profession. Many accounting firm owners, in an attempt to maximize profits, have historically kept staff wages relatively low. It isn’t really about what happened but why after all.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Gets a New Tax Leader; Bad News For MBAs; Deloitte Cheating | 10.16.23

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But now a Liberal senator is likening his words to that of disgraced businessman Alan Bond, a Labor senator is accusing him of calling the likely next boss of the tax office a liar and a Greens senator states he was either “wilfully blind” or misleading the Senate in his evidence. What’s missing from the narrative?

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KROST Sponsors AICPA’s PCPS George Willie Ethnically Diverse Student Scholarship & Internship Program

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KROST CPAs and Consultants, the Los Angeles-based firm, has announced their co-sponsorship of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ ( AICPA) Private Companies Practice Section (PCPS) George Willie Ethnically Diverse Student Scholarship & Internship Program. Pasadena, CA. Applications are due April 16, 2021.

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Friday Footnotes: Bob Moritz Disappoints Us; ERC Window Slamming Shut; 2024 Sucks For Firms? | 3.22.24

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In an exclusive interview with Fenlon, UNLEASH gets the inside track to discover how PwC – which generated a whopping US$50 bn in 2022 – is preparing for the future. Day will join the FASB from Ernst & Young LLP (EY), the global accounting and professional services firm, where he is a partner working in Professional Practice.

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Friday Footnotes: CPA Exam Scares Accounting Majors Away; EY Loses Fees in China | 5.12.23

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Talent Why Graduates Aren’t Hot on Accounting Careers: Low Starting Pay, Onerous Testing [ Wall Street Journal ] For Connor Verrett, an economics major and entrepreneurship minor at Washington & Lee University who expects to graduate this month, that roadblock was among the factors he considered in eschewing an accounting career. “It

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