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Private Equity in Public Accounting: Salvation or Ruination?

CPA Practice

The landscape of public accounting experienced an unprecedented shakeup in 2023, marked not by the usual suspects of annual updates or technological advancements, but by a surge of interest from an unexpected source: private equity (PE). But what happens to those nine accounting firms who don’t make it?

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Meeting the Staffing Demands: How Automation is Transforming Accounting Firms

CPA Practice

With the continuous growth in the IRC’s complexity and the rising number of tax filings each year (at both the federal, state, and local levels), the likelihood of making an inaccurate filing is increasing to unprecedented levels; which in turn is stretching industry talent dangerously thin.

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

TaxConnex

For respondents, the staffing struggle also meant curtailing business growth (19.23%), more errors in sales tax calculation (17.58%), more frustration from existing staff (21.43%) and, perhaps scariest, a growing lack of confidence in being prepared for an audit (22.53%).

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Earn $20 per Book Promoting My Tax Preparer Book from Home in Your Spare Time

AdviceForTaxpreparers

Earn $20 per Book Promoting My Tax Preparer Book from Home in Your Spare Time. My name is Bill Meador and I am writing a book to help tax staff succeed in a public accounting firm tax department. He created this blog to make Big 4, national, and local tax preparers lives easier. Free Tax Staff Guide.

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Be an Odd Duck: Work on, Not in Your Public Accounting Practice

Speaker: Tom Bowman, CPA of Bowman & Company

Owners of Public Accounting firms are always telling their clients to work on their business and not in their business, yet many times do not take their own advice. It is possible to run an Accounting Firm and never do tax returns or financial statements!

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Accounting Firms Ditch Zoom Interviews; Mississippi’s Best CPA Exam Candidates | 8.28.23

Going Concern

Accounting firms across the pond are ditching Zoom interviews, writes Sunday Times : Zoom calls became the norm for business meetings during the pandemic — but accountancy firms, among the biggest graduate recruiters, are going back to face-to-face interviews when hiring, saying it is easier to assess candidates’ characters.

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Top Remote Accountants of the Week | May 16, 2024

Going Concern

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