Accounting Insight
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Several factors contribute to the shortage, like mid-career CPAs changing professions, or early retirements spurred by the pandemic. But why has the accounting profession become so unattractive? We’ve gathered three reasons for the shortage of accountants, as well as solutions for CPA firms to consider.
CPA Practice
MAY 18, 2023
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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AdviceForTaxpreparers
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, talking directly to CPAs, accounting majors, accounting teachers, etc.). Latest posts by Bill Meador, CPA, JD ( see all ). Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor - July 29, 2019. Learn How CPA Firms View a Gap in Your Resume - October 31, 2014. Accounting LIONs.
CPA Practice
JANUARY 16, 2023
There are several ways accounting professionals and organizations can benefit from upskilling and reskilling online — whether to prepare for the CPA exam, build cutting-edge analytic capabilities, or create a new talent strategy. In 2020, the World Economic Forum predicted a decline in accounting jobs by 2025.
Going Concern
MARCH 1, 2024
For many 22- to 27-year-olds, known as Generation Z, their average student debt of more than $20,000 and the lure of higher-paying Wall Street and Silicon Valley firms means the time and effort required to become a CPA doesn’t pencil out. Melancon urges accountants not to ignore tools such as ChatGPT.
Going Concern
DECEMBER 9, 2022
The move would boost competition for US law firms, who are already seeing non-lawyer-owned legal operations gaining footholds in states such as Arizona and Utah that are testing new service-delivery models. Check out these remote accounting jobs at Accountingfly. So, they look to M&A with another firm to secure an exit.
Going Concern
AUGUST 26, 2022
Too many firms don’t even capitalize on one of the form’s clear advantages — the ability to have a wide range of expertise in one place — to aggressively cross-sell services to a single client base; instead, they act more like a collection of individual practitioners in a WeWork space. Firm M&A. Did y’all get yours???
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