ThomsonReuters

JUNE 16, 2023

Many of today’s accounting professionals have a new perspective on when and how they want to work. Are firms heeding the call? The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced countless businesses, including accounting firms, to go remote essentially overnight due to mandated shutdowns and stay-at-home orders.

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AdviceForTaxpreparers

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

by Bill Meador, CPA, JD. My name is Bill Meador and I am writing a book to help tax staff succeed in a public accounting firm tax department. Now I understand the first reaction of many accountants to the concept of selling anything. Earn $20 per Book Promoting My Tax Preparer Book from Home in Your Spare Time.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 24, 2022

Misery in accounting is timeless after all. Plus it’s relevant given the ongoing accounting pipeline problem and concerns about accountant shortages as the paper talks about how the stereotype of “the miserable accountant” actually draws people to the profession for whom misery is a good fit.

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CPA Practice

MAY 18, 2023

One of the biggest questions currently being asked by many throughout the accounting profession is, “How can we make accounting more appealing to students?” There’s plenty of accounting jobs out there that need to be filled— more than 300,000 accountants and auditors have left the profession in the past few years.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Michelle Lubbe works toward the online Master’s of Accounting (iMSA) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she instantly puts what she learns to the test. “On The case for online learning is even more vital for firms that are grappling with talent shortages and a dwindling talent pool. However, the job is evolving.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 21, 2022

KPMG flunks US overseas audit inspections twice as often as rivals [ Financial Times ] US regulators were twice as likely to find flaws in audits conducted by the overseas affiliates of KPMG than those of any other Big Four accounting firm, an analysis of inspection data shows. Accounting Firm Mergers. Understaffed?

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Going Concern

MARCH 1, 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. This is an accounting trick.

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