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Top 5 tips for accounting firms to find qualified workers

Accounting Insight

Trouble finding qualified staff continues to be a top concern for accounting firms of all sizes, according to the AICPA’s 2023 Top Issues Survey. Workers who may lack an accounting degree but have a business background, or bookkeeping and tax experience, may be a good fit for client accounting services and certain tax engagements.

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Beyond tax season: creating revenue stability year-round

ThomsonReuters

Small businesses often have very limited staff, which means the owner or one of the employees is in charge of payroll. That can be a challenge for a business owner who has little or no experience in accounting and payroll. These options can create sustainable revenue throughout the year. Bookkeeping. Business tax preparation.

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CPA Firm Managing Partner Weighs in on How to Rebuild the Talent Pipeline

CPA Practice

“The one who did choose accounting, obviously we didn’t ask this question, but to the others we asked: Why didn’t you choose accounting? Pretty much overwhelmingly they said it was because you have to have an accounting degree and a CPA, which isn’t true. You don’t have to be a CPA.

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

CPA Practice

And unemployment rates for in-demand roles, like accountants and auditors, are typically well below the national average. CPA firms are bearing the brunt of other trends, too, like the dwindling population of college students graduating with accounting degrees.

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Friday Footnotes: The Metaverse’s First CPA Firm Gets Sued; CPA Exam Blueprints; Mad Mergers | 1.6.23

Going Concern

Employers added 223K jobs in December, but cut 1,100 in accounting [ Accounting Today ]. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 223,000 in December and the unemployment rate ticked downward by two-tenths of a point to 3.5%, the U.S. Challenges And Opportunities For Accounting Departments In 2023 [ Forbes ]. ” Employment.

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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

Going Concern

Check out this week’s top remote accounting candidates. in accounting [ Accounting Today ] The biggest gains occurred in the health care, leisure and hospitality, social assistance and construction industries. Employers added 187K jobs in August, including 2.7K Over the past 12 months, they’ve increased 4.3%.

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College Accounting Programs Are Taxpayer-Funded Training Programs for the Big 4 and Other Such Muckraking

Going Concern

They have learned nothing about the needs of small business with minimal (if any) coverage of financial statement preparation without an audit, working for clients without an internal accounting department, or the realities of being a small business advisor. A required college curriculum that ignores small business to the tune of lunacy.