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The Best Tech for Accounting Firms: CPAs Voted for Readers Choice Tech Awards

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The technologies used in professional accounting firms continue to evolve and shape how practices function, from client service, to staffing issues, and overall management and growth. Thank you to the more than 5,500 readers who participated in voting this year. Now, on to the results! WINNER: TheTaxBook – Tax Materials Inc.

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Top 7 Reasons Why People Are Leaving Accounting Firms, According to PICPA

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PICPA received survey responses from 323 accounting professionals nationwide who have zero to 15 years of public accounting experience and have left their firm or profession within the past five years. Progress is being made, but accounting is a pay-laggard among most financial professions,” PICPA said in the report.

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Our Obsession with Hours Is Destroying the Accounting Profession

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By Blake Oliver, CPA, and Chris Vanover, CPA. CPAs have always been passionate about numbers, using various metrics such as revenue, profit, headcount and realization to measure success. However, this focus on numerical indicators is contributing to the decline of the CPA profession itself.

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Episode 067: Craft Beer and Local Food with Corey Lord

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Join host Hugh Duffy as he talks with Corey Lord, Lord CPAs. Join host Hugh Duffy as he talks with Corey Lord, Lord CPAs. Guest Bio: Corey Lord, Lord CPAs CEO. Corey is the CEO and a Client Ally at Lord CPAs. Corey took over Lord CPAs from his father in. He is a licensed CPA in Michigan.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Morale Is Suffering After Layoffs; Ignoring Audit Quality? | 3.11.24

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We’ll be doing an article shortly, in the meantime here are some quotes from INSIDE Public Accounting : Bob Cedergren, MNCPA board chair added, “I can tell you from my own experience, through conversations with colleagues throughout the country and the members of the MNCPA, that we have a significant shortage of CPAs.

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Listen Up, Young Accountants: Career Advice For Sticking Out Those Early Years

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But experts say one thing that young professionals can do, including young accountants, is to be more patient. Let’s say they’re in public accounting, and they get assigned to an engagement with a manager or client they don’t particularly like,” asked Maginnis. “Or That can be a tough fight to win.

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Episode 068: A conversation with Allan Koltin

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For twenty consecutive years, Allan has been named by Accounting Today as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the accounting profession. Koltin was also voted one of the 10 Most Recommended Consultants for the sixteenth straight year in the “Annual Survey of Firms” conducted by INSIDE Public Accounting.

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