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Top 5 tips for accounting firms to find qualified workers

Accounting Insight

Trouble finding qualified staff continues to be a top concern for accounting firms of all sizes, according to the AICPA’s 2023 Top Issues Survey. Workers who may lack an accounting degree but have a business background, or bookkeeping and tax experience, may be a good fit for client accounting services and certain tax engagements.

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Beyond tax season: creating revenue stability year-round

ThomsonReuters

Tax season is a critically busy time of the year for accountants, and we all know the stress that can come with such a high demand for services during that part of the year. But for some tax and accounting firms, the high volume of clients from January to April represents the majority of their business for the year.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Partners Get Played; Bad Accounting on the Rise; Getting to the Bottom of the Shortage | 9.1.23

Going Concern

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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CPA Firm Managing Partner Weighs in on How to Rebuild the Talent Pipeline

CPA Practice

How to fix the crumbing talent pipeline in the accounting profession is a topic on the minds of many people these days. Jackie Cardello During the panel discussion, “Accounting Across Generations: Assessing the Current State of the Industry,” the question, “What do we have to change to rebuild the talent pipeline in the accounting profession?”

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Friday Footnotes: The Metaverse’s First CPA Firm Gets Sued; CPA Exam Blueprints; Mad Mergers | 1.6.23

Going Concern

So customers have filed more than a half-dozen proposed class actions against the NFL’s Tom Brady, accounting firm Prager Metis and Bankman-Fried as an individual, among others. 2024 CPA Exam Blueprints released [ Journal of Accountancy ]. Employers added 223K jobs in December, but cut 1,100 in accounting [ Accounting Today ].

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College Accounting Programs Are Taxpayer-Funded Training Programs for the Big 4 and Other Such Muckraking

Going Concern

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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