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Meeting the Staffing Demands: How Automation is Transforming Accounting Firms

CPA Practice

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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In ongoing accounting crunch, where to go for sales tax help?

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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. There were about 1.65 in 2022, up 1.3%

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PCAOB Looks to Amend Rule on Auditors’ Liability for Audit Firm Violations

CPA Practice

A proposal issued by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Tuesday would hold auditors and others more accountable when they negligently, directly, and substantially cause their firm to violate auditing standards. The deadline for public comment on the proposal is Nov.

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Friday Footnotes: The ERC Problem; EY Double Dips; Stress Less in Public Accounting | 5.26.23

Going Concern

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.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: ‘Auditors Are Not Lawyers’; Big 4 Break Up? | 7.31.23

Going Concern

Former partner Wayne Plummer told PwC partners in December that the firm had made an in-principle agreement with the Tax Office to settle on a no-admissions basis in return for a 50 per cent reduction in penalties that totalled several hundred thousand dollars. Such suggestions are false.

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The PCAOB Did Not Appreciate Being Left Out of a Foreign Audit Firm’s Use of Foreign Auditors

Going Concern

The firm used the work of two firms not registered with the PCAOB — PKF Audisur of Argentina and PwC Malta of, duh, Malta — in “a substantial role capacity” on four issuer audits. Expect more of these fines to come, the PCAOB made use of other auditors one of its many nitpicking pet issues last year.

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Our Obsession with Hours Is Destroying the Accounting Profession

CPA Practice

A talent shortage is affecting accounting firms across the demographic spectrum. Each year fewer accountants enter the profession while more CPAs near retirement. According to the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, the number of U.S. Has the CPA license entered a death spiral?

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