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Many Finance and Accounting Workers Are Optimistic About the Job Market — Here’s How CPA Firms Can Respond

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However, it doesn’t mean CPA firms are finding it any easier to staff available positions — or hold on to the valued employees they already have in place. hiring and employment trends found that 95% of hiring managers in finance and accounting face challenges in locating skilled candidates available for hire.

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Mastering Labor Challenges Can Drive Growth for CPA Firms

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Let’s face it, the accounting profession has developed a bad reputation – toiling through long hours chained to a desk, crunching numbers, deciphering archaic tax codes and grinding out tedious tasks, all for lower starting pay and heavy licensing requirements. Compounding the problem is the increased demand for accountants.

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It’s Time to Rethink Current Practices for CPA Firm Talent Management

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Here’s some news from the labor market that’s both good and bad for CPA firm leaders and other employers of accounting and finance talent. The upside for CPA firms is that retaining talent should be a little easier, at least for the near term. Does your firm offer jobs, or careers?

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3 Strategies to Help CPA Firms Retain In-Demand Talent

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If employee retention isn’t already a priority focus for your CPA firm, you may want to make it one — and soon. Research from Robert Half found that 27% of finance and accounting professionals in the United States are either looking for a job right now or planning to do so in the next six months.

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The CPA Firm Growth Strategy: From Compliance to Consulting

Speaker: Rita Keller - President of Keller Advisors, LLC

You've worked diligently and have built a glowing reputation grounded in your excellent skills in tax, accounting, and auditing. You have a very successful firm -- but that’s not enough. You're known as the “go-to” person when a client is faced with tax and financial decisions. For others, it will be a significant challenge.

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What Accountants Had to Say About the CPA Firm Business Model—and Why it Needs to Evolve

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After Duke Alexander Moore got a sneak peek at the questions he and the two other panelists would be asked during a session at the 2023 Unique CPA Conference, “Bridging the Gap,” there was a topic he knew nothing about, even as the owner of a tax and accounting business: the traditional accounting firm partnership business model.

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H&CO Acquires Orlando CPA Firm Grennan Fender

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Top 200 accounting firm H&CO has acquired fellow Florida CPA firm Grennan Fender, which has offices in Orlando and Melbourne. The leadership teams of H&CO and Grennan Fender will work closely to ensure a smooth transition for clients, the firms noted in a news release. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Managing Security Issues with a Remote Workforce while Continuing to Grow Your Practice

Speaker: Jim Bourke, Managing Director Advisory Services at WithumSmith+Brown

Accountants are the “Trusted Professionals.” Protecting data does not and should not result in a massive disruption to our business model, but instead, should be viewed as an opportunity to get to better know our clients and help them by delivering new services that in the past were never associated with a CPA firm. and more!