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CLA Adds Atlanta-Based Ronald Blue & Co. CPAs

CPA Practice

Top 10 accounting firm CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) has acquired Ronald Blue & Co., an Atlanta-based firm that has provided tax, audit, and advisory services to clients for more than 45 years. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Accounting Firm Names: 1000+ Ideas for Modern Firms

Ryan Lazanis

In this article, you’re going to get a ton of inspiration plus a whole bunch of tips for picking amazing accounting firm names. Table of Contents How to Choose a CPA Firm Name? Choosing an accounting firm name is all about branding and how you want the outside world to perceive you.

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Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants Issues 2023 State of Pennsylvania Public Accounting Firms Study

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The Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants , the largest CPA association in Pennsylvania with over 20,000 members, has issued its latest Insights report. The report’s deep dive provides the latest data on compensation across titles, technology adoption, billing model breakdowns, M&A and more.

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What Private Equity Means for Accounting Firms: Thought Leaders Explore Pros and Cons

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They often focus their efforts to maximize the eventual sales value of the acquired business via a combination of targeted acquisitions of other firms, capital investments, expansion into profitable niches, waste reduction, tech adaptation, streamlining and other measures. What size accounting firms are private equity groups eyeing?

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The Present & Future of CAS for Accounting Firms

CPA Practice

“We all have to be professional when we show up at work, so we’ve been trying to get firms to use ‘client-facing’ or other terms” to denote staff who may be professionals at their job functions, but are not credentialed,” said Wilson. This can include non-CPAs and those who may still be interacting with clients on tasking.

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Three Skills Every Accountant Needs to Differentiate and Scale Their Firm

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MESSAGING SKILLS To successfully differentiate your firm from other accounting firms (as well as the “tech” companies), you must be able to articulate a message that resonates to your target audience as compared to a message that falls flat. Because most accounting firms are providing services that are simply not scalable.

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PCAOB Has Handed Out a Slew of Punishments to Audit Firms Recently

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Shortly after criticizing audit firms for the number of errors they made on public company audits reviewed by PCAOB inspectors last year, the audit watchdog doled out sanctions to 12 accounting firms from July 28 to Aug. Here is a recap of the PCAOB’s busy last two weeks of enforcement and the firms that got busted.

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