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CBIZ Picks Up Erickson, Brown & Kloster in Colorado

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Cleveland-based top 15 accounting firm CBIZ acquired Erickson, Brown & Kloster, a full-service tax, accounting, and business consulting firm located in Colorado Springs, on Feb. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. EBK has 50 employees and recorded approximately $8.9

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Building CPA Practice From Scratch: Luke Gheen

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Would you leave a safe and comfortable controller position at a large company to start your own CPA firm? in Colorado Springs, did – in his early 30s and without any public accounting experience. Guest Bio: Luke Gheen, MBA, CPA, Certified Tax Coach. That’s what Luke Gheen, founder of Gheen & Co.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

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Big 4 Big Four Lobby Congress on Accounting Pipeline, AI, Crypto [ Bloomberg Tax ] PwC spent the most at $3.27 The Big Four firms targeted a portion of their millions in Capitol Hill spending last year on a pivotal problem facing the industry: shoring up a dwindling supply of qualified accountants.

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What exactly is indirect tax?

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Jump to: What is indirect tax? Types of indirect tax The value of indirect tax to tax professionals Differences between direct and indirect tax Tax planning and management is one of the primary areas accountants help their clients. Taxes are either direct tax or indirect tax.

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Someone Looked Up Audit Senior Salary Ranges at the Top 25 Firms to Catch Them Breaking the New NYC Pay Transparency Law

Going Concern

If the firm didn’t operate in NYC, then they looked up their salaries for Colorado, which has a similar law in effect, and if they didn’t have posting in either location, they looked up fully remote roles which are included in both NYC and CO transparency laws if the job can be performed by a NYC or CO resident.

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Cannabis Cos’ $4.7B In Cash-Based Taxes Overwhelm IRS

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million to a Virginia company to handle “large cash payments for processing cannabis federal taxes.”. billion in taxes last year on nearly $13 billion in revenue from legal cannabis companies. Most of these companies were forced to pay their federal taxes in cash because about 70 percent of all legal cannabis businesses are unbanked.

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Friday Footnotes: How Are Firms Actually Using Data Analytics?; KPMG and BDO on the Move | 9.15.23

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A number of accounting firms,1 public companies, professional membership associations and other key stakeholders raised concerns. In addition, in a rare occurrence, PCAOB board members Christina Ho and Duane DesParte — the only two certified public accountants on the board — issued public dissents when the PCAOB issued the proposal.

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