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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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What Auditors Do

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In two weeks, I will be teaching a graduate course on audit concepts and methods to accounting students at Fairleigh Dickinson University. However, my role is not just to teach the material but to excite them about accounting as a profession and auditing in particular and share my pride in the vital role auditors play in our ecosystem.

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How CPA Firms Can Compete for Top Talent in the Year Ahead

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CPA firm leaders outlining staffing plans for the coming year can’t help but worry if they will hit their hiring goals. This concern is not misplaced: Research for the 2024 Salary Guide From Robert Half found that organizations in both public and corporate accounting are grappling with an accountant shortage.

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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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