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ChatGPT Isn’t Terminator for Accountants…Yet

Going Concern

Was ChatGPT sent to us from the future to rescue the industry from the pipeline crisis by filling open accounting jobs with cyborgs and sentient machines? Accounting is ridiculously rules-based: assets = liabilities plus equities; debits = credits; cash in > cash out, etc. ChatGPT is Usain Bolt. The future is different.

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Friday Footnotes: No Foolin’ Here; 18,000 New Accounting Jobs; Skills Auditors Need NOW to Be Future-Ready | 4.1.22

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431K jobs added in March, with 18.2K in accounting [ Accounting Today ] Some of the main job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality, and professional and business services, along with retail trade and manufacturing. Ah, memories. Over the past year, average hourly earnings have increased 5.6%. Chinese and U.S.

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Friday Footnotes: Ex-CPA Leaves Clients in the Lurch Before Tax Day; EY Layoffs; More ERC Concerns | 4.12.24

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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. While the average mean salary for accountants in the U.S.

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Wall Street Journal Addresses the Accountant Shortage, Suggests a Recession Could Fix It

Going Concern

I made my entrée into accounting way back in 2007, at the time my job involved a three-hour roundtrip journey across four Bay Area counties and back and I was looking for something a bit closer to home. They say accounting is recession-proof, I had an inside view during the worst recession of our lifetime and must agree.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC CEO Resigns Over Tax Scandal; RTO Propaganda; Unproductive Productivity | 5.8.23

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Partners had complained that Mr Seymour’s ongoing preference to treat the matter as a legal argument instead of dealing head-on with the issues had become a threat to the firm’s reputation in the wider consulting and auditing market. This ESPN article about tonight’s draft mentions only “accounting firm.”

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Your Firm and Your AI Future

CPA Practice

As we enter 2024, it’s natural to wonder what the future holds for this transformative emerging technology, especially for accountants. At the Ensuring Success Conference in Dallas , a session called “AI For Real: How Can Accountants Use This Technology?” reaches deal on landmark AI bill, racing ahead of U.S.

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AICPA Says it Has a Plan to Fix the CPA Talent Shortage

CPA Practice

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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