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The Benefits of Delayed Business Filings

CPA Practice

Timing is Everything In the complex world of small business finance and accounting, the strategic timing of business filings can be a game-changer. States with tighter schedules include Illinois and New York (up to 60 days) and Virginia (up to 15 days).

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4 Reasons Why the Profession Is Struggling to Convince Students to Become CPAs, #4 Will Not Shock You

Going Concern

Time to whip out an ancient Game of Thrones meme here: The 2021 AICPA Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits report released a couple weeks ago tells us that the number of accounting graduates trended downward in the 2019–2020 academic year (most recent data available), with decreases of 2.8%

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Pizza Parties In Lieu of Compensation: A Comprehensive History

Going Concern

Whether your class did well on a test, your team won the game, or your friend had a birthday, the pizza party was always the go-to choice to mark the happy event. Let’s just be grateful accounting firms pay you enough for you to afford a decent rotation of blue button-up shirts and a cremation. It all starts when we’re kids.

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Report: 80 Pct. Of NJ Gamblers Place Wagers Online

PYMNTS

Mobile betting, however, is only allowed in five: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Iowa and Nevada. Illegal bets made through neighborhood bookies and offshore sites are valued at $150 billion a year, The American Gaming Association told the WSJ. Geofencing ensures mobile apps stay within each state.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Every Day Is Fools’ Day For Some Accounting Employers; McKinsey Now Paying People to Leave | 4.1.24

Going Concern

Business Insider wrote about the accountant shortage, specifically Tupperware griping in regulatory filings that it can’t find enough people (again): The accountant shortage is so bad that companies are delaying filing key mandatory reports. A lot of this work that we’re doing is, I’d call it forensic accounting,” Cipriano said.

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Sizzle Of The Week: Amazon Solves The Last Mile Problem With Whole Foods

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cities – Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas and Virginia Beach – but nationwide rollout is scheduled by the end of the year. First, and most obviously, the level of the game just went up for every other player in the grocery. While many Facebook accounts were woozy over the news, so far as we know, no one actually lost consciousness.

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The World Gets Its Libra Look — And Is Divided On What It Sees

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billion people in the world without access to a bank account the ability to have one at no, or a low, cost. Two-thirds of the unbanked are, well, unbanked because they live in wretched poverty, and have nothing to put in bank accounts. It certainly does not appear to be about giving bank accounts to the 1.7 So what is?