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Spotlighting Women in Advisory Practice: Answering the call to accounting with Brittany Lanphier, CPA

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After being accepted at Texas A&M University Mays Business School — ranked one the most competitive business schools in the region — she progressed through her introductory business classes and then her first accounting class. Something clicked then, Lanphier says, and she found that she liked accounting.

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In ongoing accounting crunch, where to go for sales tax help?

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More generally, accounting talent pool concerns are pressing even for accounting firms , as enrollment rates of accounting students continue to fall. The accounting education pipeline is drier than ever even as accounting degrees require many additional course hours. There were about 1.65 in 2022, up 1.3%

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Shortage of Accountants? Think Again.

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By Andrew Argue, CPA. 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?

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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

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Talent Accounting Research Seeks to Find Solutions for Talent Shortage [ EIN Presswire ] The Center for Accounting Transformation, in collaboration with CPA Trendlines, is undergoing Staffing Strategies Research to understand how to address the talent shortage and identify workable solutions for firms and organizations of all sizes.

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Beyond tax season: creating revenue stability year-round

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If you’re not familiar with bookkeeping services, you can take courses online, and you do not need an accounting degree to perform bookkeeping services. Business tax preparation. If you aren’t familiar with bookkeeping or need a refresher, you can find online bookkeeping courses to get up to speed.

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Tax Planning Software – Artificial Intelligence or Skill Saw?

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By Dominique Molina, CPA MST CTS. Question : How much time should I devote to studying tax planning? If you’ve read my articles about tax planning before, no doubt you’ve read my description of tax planning software as an instrumental tool. The same is true for tax planning software.

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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

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Don’t feel bad, MY job ranked #3 most exciting and I assure you it absolutely is not, I write about accounting after all. “I The indictment alleges that Louis served as a “ghost preparer,” meaning that he prepared tax returns for compensation but failed to sign or otherwise declare the tax returns he prepared for other individuals.