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Barry Melancon to Retire from AICPA

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Barry Melancon, CPA, CGMA, has announced that he will to retire on December 31, 2024, from his role as president and CEO of the American Institute of CPAs and CEO of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. Combined, the two organizations comprise the world’s largest membership of public and management accountants.

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Friday Footnotes: Behemoth Big 4 Firms Get Behemothier; Audits Get Harder; Eliminate Clients! | 11.11.22

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note: if you like accounting news, which you clearly do because you are reading this, we encourage you to sign up for our newsletter for even more accounting news. There’s definitely an accountant shortage out there’: MBAs have become the go-to degree and companies are struggling to hire enough CPAs [ Fortune ].

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State CPA Societies in Action: Arizona Society of CPAs

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Yandle is a native of Louisiana and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Loyola University of the South in New Orleans, and a JD from Washington College of Law at The American University in Washington, D.C. These opportunities include avenues for leadership and professional development through service, connection, and education.

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State CPA Societies in Action: Arizona Society of CPAs

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Yandle is a native of Louisiana and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Loyola University of the South in New Orleans, and a JD from Washington College of Law at The American University in Washington, D.C. These opportunities include avenues for leadership and professional development through service, connection, and education.

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State CPA Societies in Action: Arizona Society of CPAs

CPA Practice

Yandle is a native of Louisiana and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Loyola University of the South in New Orleans, and a JD from Washington College of Law at The American University in Washington, D.C. These opportunities include avenues for leadership and professional development through service, connection, and education.

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Friday Footnotes: RSM Layoffs; The Leader Who Cried On His First Day; Advisory Pays Better (Duh) | 5.5.23

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Entry-level CPAs in advisory practices are making $11,000 more than CPAs starting out in audit and tax, and $20,000 more than non-CPAs in advisory. The gap widens again at the upper levels.

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What happened in sales tax in 2022

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Government Accountability Office of just how well states had done since Wayfair four years before: 33 states had reported $23 billion in remote sales tax revenue in 2021. In Louisiana, a federal court dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s decentralized sales tax collection system, saying it was filed in the wrong venue.

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