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Earn $20 per Book Promoting My Tax Preparer Book from Home in Your Spare Time

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My name is Bill Meador and I am writing a book to help tax staff succeed in a public accounting firm tax department. Since I do not plan to sell this book through a publishing company, I need another way to market the book to the public. Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor - July 29, 2019. Bio Latest Posts.

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Why Fraud—Yes, Fraud—Could Boost the Accounting Talent Pipeline

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In a supplemental analysis of educational and labor market data of more than half a million accounting graduates in the U.S., The complete research, “ Externalities of Financial Statement Fraud on the Incoming Accounting Labor Force ,” will be published soon in the Journal of Accounting Research.

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The Accountant Shortage is a Material Weakness Now

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And here’s their game plan: As an initial step in remediation of this material weakness, we are engaging temporary third-party resources with the appropriate level of knowledge and experience in accounting and internal control matters to complement the existing organizational structure.

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

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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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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Is Twice as Bad as Other Firms; Upskill or Die; Hella M&A | 10.21.22

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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.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Money Troubles; Fast Food > Public Accounting; From Athlete to Associate; | 12.16.22

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Writes Jeff John Roberts: All this raises the question of why, if they are looking to build trust, Binance and the others didn’t hire one of the Big Four accounting firms to conduct their audits. Is it because they didn’t want the level of scrutiny those firms would provide? [ Fortune Crypto ]. KPMG completes the Big Four.).

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Friday Footnotes: For the Last Time, Salaries Are Too Low; NOCLAR Is Back; Big 4 Beat Up Again | 3.1.24

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Meanwhile, the audit side is under increased regulatory pressure because of perceived lapses in audit quality at accounting firms of all sizes. Last year, the median salary for full-time entry-level accounting jobs was roughly $62,500, up from about $50,000 in 2020, according to Handshake data.

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