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Accounting firms and sales and use tax advising: Perfect together?

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In our blog last week, we looked at how sales and use tax advisory services might be a good new field for CPAs and accounting firms. Another cost-effective approach to adding sales and use tax advisory services: partnering with sales and use tax experts. Review the sales tax payable account.

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Another Accounting Firm Has Had Its Data Breached

Going Concern

.” Additionally there’s this scary bit of info: File Your Tax Return. We encourage you to file your tax return as soon as possible, if you have not already done so.

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7 client audit management steps for tax and accounting firms

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These two words can strike fear in the hearts of your tax and accounting clients: IRS audit. Understanding how to manage client expectations and concerns and how to get through the process is an essential skill in the tax and accounting professions. Most IRS audits are not random, although that is possible.

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Accounting Firms Are Embarrassing Themselves on the Talent Dating Market

Going Concern

It’s December 2022 and we’re now a good year into “The Great Accounting Shortage,” the depth of which won’t truly be known until the fines start rolling in for p**s-poor audit work performed by skeleton crews. We might need to start thinking about Life After Accountants. So, any day now.

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Meeting the Staffing Demands: How Automation is Transforming Accounting Firms

CPA Practice

It provides essential services due to the complexity of tax laws and the importance of offering valuable tax-saving advice to clients; and that’s just the tax half of the industry. The Role of Automation Automation and advanced softwares are reshaping the way work is conducted within public accounting firms.

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Don’t Grow Your Accounting Firm Out of Business! Break Up With These Unscalable Practices Now

Going Concern

Business growth is always a high priority for accounting firms, especially small-to-midsize practices. Simply copy and paste the content below, print it out on some nice letterhead, invent a way to send letters to abstract concepts, apply appropriate postage, and—BOOM—your accounting firm will be growing sustainably in no time!

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Year-end tax planning strategies: How to set your accounting firm up for success

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In an era of staffing shortages and scarcity of technical tax professionals , accounting firms must increasingly look outside the box to fill gaps in talent. Many firms are shifting their hunt for talent beyond the traditional accounting background.