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

TaxConnex

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

ThomsonReuters

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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Strengths

RitaKeller

You hire them because they have an accounting degree, they received good grades and they interviewed well. You teach and train them to perform the basic duties of an accountant working in public accounting. Someone seems simply loves working in the tax area and dreads being drafted to be on an audit team.

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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. Law & Order Co-Owner of Media Brokerage Firm Pleads Guilty to Filing a False Tax Return [ Department of Justice ] According to court documents and statements made in court, Susan K.

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Tax Planning Software – Artificial Intelligence or Skill Saw?

CTP

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. It can provide valuable insights such as data extracted from your tax returns, calculation of minimum required estimated tax payments, and even a few tips to save annual tax.

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

Going Concern

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.

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Shortage of Accountants? Think Again.

CPA Practice

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.

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