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TurboTax Promises Refunds to Oregon Filers Whose Returns It Bungled

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By Mike Rogoway, oregonlive.com (TNS) TurboTax began notifying some Oregon customers this week that it made a mistake in their tax returns , offering them instructions on how to amend their filings and promising to refund money they paid for TurboTax’s service. “We It aims to notify everyone affected by its mistake by May 14.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Details on Grant Thornton’s PE Deal; What Is ‘Presented Fairly’ Anyway? | 5.13.24

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AT&T is coming for your recruits : AT&T Woos Accounting Students, Bypasses Big Four Training Ground AT&T Inc.’s ’s top accountant is confronting a competitive job market by rethinking the company’s traditional reliance on large CPA firms as a training ground for new hires, taking her recruiting pitch on-campus instead.

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Why Fraud—Yes, Fraud—Could Boost the Accounting Talent Pipeline

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A new study from the University of Florida revealed how financial fraud can play a surprising role in the struggling accounting labor force. Insights from these studies imply that fraud would create a negative stigma around the labor market for all business fields, and accounting in particular, but we find the opposite.

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Somehow Accounting Ended Up on This List of the Highest-Paying College Majors in 2022

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CBS News crunched some Payscale data and by some miracle, accounting ranked #52 on this list of the 60 highest-paying majors. Because we anticipate people might ask for proof of this, we have screenshotted accounting’s entry on said list. Text: Accounting isn’t just accounting anymore.

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Shortage of Accountants? Think Again.

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College graduates with accounting degrees , CPA exam takers , new entrants to the accounting workforce —all these metrics and our experience make us feel there’s a lack of interest in our industry. You can sense the collective anxiety brewing: Is our industry running low on accounting talent? By Andrew Argue, CPA. Perhaps not.

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Payroll Taxes Demystified: A Breakdown for Accountants and CPAs Serving Business Owners

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As accountants and CPAs, dealing with payroll taxes is essential to managing finances for your business clients. As an accountant or CPA, you play a vital role in: Calculating and withholding taxes correctly. Your client will be assigned an employer tax account number for the state. By Nellie Akalp.

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The Largest Accounting Firms in Portland, Ranked by Number of CPAs Working There

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Been a while since we’ve ranked anything, thankfully Portland Business Journal came in clutch today and gave the world a good old fashioned ranking of Portland accounting firms. and Geffen Mesher are local to Oregon. As we know, Moss Adams is headquartered in nearby Seattle, Perkins & Co. Today we learned.

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