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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. This might be good.

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Here Are Even More 2024 Accounting Salary Projections

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Employers will need to reward employees who earn CPAs, CFAs, and CFPs or risk losing them to competitors. Now that you bravely skimmed four entire paragraphs of icky words, here are national average salaries for various accounting positions according to the report. To keep things simple, we’ll stick to the tax and audit roles.

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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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Digital Workflow in Intuit ProConnect Tax

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Chris Picciurro, founder of Teaching Tax Flow , articulated the high cost of demanding accounting jobs. Honestly, I missed the first five years of my older kids’ lives,” Picciurro told an audience of accounting professionals during Intuit’s Better Together NYC event. “At At that point, I said, ‘It’s them or me.’

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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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The city’s audit committee, a monitoring body that tracks the findings and recommendations of Montreal’s auditor general, comptroller general and external auditors, makes the observation in its latest annual report. While the average mean salary for accountants in the U.S.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Downsizes (Office Space); CPA CPA CPA; Some Good News on Diversity | 8.26.22

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Headquarters at Hudson Yards [ Wall Street Journal ] The global audit and consulting firm KPMG LLP is shrinking its New York office space by more than 40%, becoming the latest big company to cut back on real estate as it embraces hybrid work. and China Announce Deal to Share Audits of U.S.-Listed stock exchanges.

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Friday Footnotes: A (Fake) Day in the Life at Deloitte; DYNAMIC Merger For Grant Thornton; CPA Awareness | 12.9.22

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BDO Ireland creates 100 jobs as it moves to new office in Dublin [ RTÉ ]. Accounting, tax audit, and business advisory firm BDO is investing €5m in a new office as it creates 100 new jobs. Check out these remote accounting jobs at Accountingfly. Do you have a wandering eye?

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