Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. And while there’s been a lot of talk, what we haven’t seen…we haven’t seen any really good survey that says firms have truly done everything that they can do. Is your firm hiring?

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JUNE 5, 2023

The Society will award the $5,000 scholarship each year to a deserving undergraduate or graduate student pursuing an accounting degree in Massachusetts. Scholarship recipients are selected through a competitive application process by the Board of Directors of the Society’s Educational Foundation.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Professionals on the Move is a round-up of promotions and hiring announcements in and around the accounting profession. marke t FORVIS recently welcomed Michael Shekel as a managing director with the firm’s forensics and valuation team. FORVIS adds Michael Shekel to forensics and valuation team in Washington, D.C.

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Going Concern

MAY 2, 2023

We all know outsourcing is big these days — accounting firms might be sending a third of their work overseas and some seniors are overseeing an entire team of offshore associates — but what about insourcing ? We’re talking about talent-strapped Big 4 firms bringing the offshore talent to them. In the U.S.,

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

That’s sort of what’s happening in the profession right now over proposed legislation in Minnesota that offers an alternative to the traditional 150 units of education required for licensure. The Minnesota CPA may incur additional fees in Illinois to practice public accounting.

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CPA Practice

JULY 31, 2023

Professionals on the Move is a round-up of recent hiring and promotion announcements from across the accounting space. Deatrick joined the firm in 2009. He provides accounting and assurance services to both public and privately held companies, primarily those within the construction and manufacturing sectors.

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Going Concern

APRIL 20, 2022

As I snarkily mentioned last week , the AICPA has finally released its much-anticipated 2021 Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits (or Trends , for short) report [PDF here ], a behemoth data dump of accounting industry stats first released in 1971 and released every two years since 2009.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Bookkeep Names Accounting Veteran Alison Ball as Vice President of Marketing and Communications Bookkeep, the leading accounting automation platform for ecommerce and retail, today announced the hiring of Alison Ball as Vice President of Marketing and Communications. We congratulate and welcome them to the Whitley Penn Partnership.”

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Going Concern

JUNE 3, 2022

Accountant Finds Out Client Has “Skeletons In The Closet”, Gets The IRS Involved And Makes Him Lose Everything [ Bored Panda ] It was posted on Reddit so obviously it must be true. Wilson turned it down, though, and opted instead to pursue grad school.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 11, 2022

These businesses have their financial advisory needs served by hundreds of thousands of small firm accountants and CPAs nationwide. Small business has unique needs for accounting services: primarily tax and advising, and secondarily day-to-day accounting needs to act as de-facto controllers and decision makers.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Sponsored by Deloitte Tax LLP and supported by the Deloitte Foundation, FanTAXtic has engaged nearly 6,500 students since inception in 2002 and is designed to educate and prepare the next generation of tax talent for a career in business and tax.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 16, 2022

” That’s what a stakeholder told me recently when we spoke about the accountant shortage and the growing gap between students getting accounting degrees and recent graduates sitting for the CPA exam. 150 hours is the rule and accounting is nothing if not a pile of rules. THAT’S CRAZY.”

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Going Concern

JANUARY 12, 2024

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. And take our 2024 Predictions for the Accounting Profession survey ! Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. in 2021/22.

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MARCH 22, 2023

There has been much debate in certain corners of the accounting profession lately about whether the 150-hour rule for CPA licensure has contributed to the pipeline of accountants drying up in recent years —that and the subpar starting pay in public accounting and the long hours required to work, especially during busy season.

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