Accounting Today

AUGUST 4, 2025

The new workforce doesnt want to donate 2 1/2 months of their lives to public accounting. We are a private equity-backed accounting firm. And with firms like ours, growth comes in two forms," he explained. "On They want to have a more well-balanced workload. Its constantly working to maintain that."

Technology

Going Concern

APRIL 7, 2025

” When Republicans cut taxes in the past, they did so only temporarily, bowing to Washingtons arcane budget rules that limited how much they could add to the federal deficit. Oh and their outside accounting firm, to whom the city owes a little over $6k, quit because of it. Friday, the citys accountant firm quit.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Top 75 accounting firm PBMares is expanding its presence in the Washington, D.C. metro area by merging in BSB CPAs + Advisors, a top 400 tax and accounting firm based in Fairfax, VA, effective Jan. million, according to INSIDE Public Accounting. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Virginia

CPA Practice

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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payroll

Going Concern

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Another small accounting firm has reported a data breach involving the protected health information of a whole lotta people. Surely the firm isn’t paying retail. The post DAE Get Sick of Hearing About Accounting Firms Getting Their Data Breached? In the case of DA&E, we don’t have to wonder.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The question in the title of this article is one the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) recently tried to answer for some members of Congress who asked the IRS watchdog to evaluate employees moving between large accounting firms and the IRS, often referred to as the “revolving door.”

accounting firms

Going Concern

AUGUST 5, 2024

INSIDE Public Accounting has dropped its highly regarded Top 500 list as it does every year around this time and we now know who gets bragging rights as the biggest — Big D, obviously. The absolute last firm on the list of 500 is Shannon & Associates of Kent, Washington with a respectable $6,063,000 in revenue.

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Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

Long Read How a Pandemic-Era Program Became a Magnet for Fraud [ New York Times ] Amid the onset of the pandemic in 2020, as large swaths of the economy went into lockdown, Washington set up various programs to help keep businesses and their workers afloat. million to federal political parties from July 2012 to June 2022, and when KPMG ($1.1

public accounting

CPA Practice

MAY 30, 2023

Certified Public Accountants from across the nation made their way to Capitol Hill last week to meet with lawmakers on issues important to the accounting profession during the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) Spring Meeting of Council and Annual Members Meeting from May 23-25.

cpas

Going Concern

APRIL 19, 2024

consulting partners by more than 50% compared with last year as demand for advisory services continues to slow and the firm reorganizes its business lines. The Big Four accounting firm is considering adding about 85 U.S. The figures include both partners and principals, which are partners who aren’t certified public accountants.

accounting firms

CPA Practice

JULY 19, 2023

Top 20 accounting firm Wipfli is combining with Southfield, MI-based CPA firm Clayton & McKervey, effective Sept. Clayton & McKervey is the 259th biggest accounting firm in the U.S. million during its most recent fiscal year, according to INSIDE Public Accounting.

Michigan

CPA Practice

AUGUST 4, 2023

Top 10 public accounting firm CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) acquired Tacoma, WA-based accounting and advisory firm Frost & Company. CLA now has 11 locations across Washington state and more than 120 offices across the U.S. The deal went into effect on Aug.

cpa firm

CPA Practice

JULY 10, 2024

Imran Mohiuddin and Stuart Lawson will join SD Capital as Managing Directors, with additional employees based in our Metropolitan Washington, Columbus and Pittsburgh offices. The firm also offers risk advisory, wealth management, personal financial services and retirement plan solutions.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS) is encouraging aspiring certified public accountants (CPAs) to apply for its 12th annual Mary T. Washington Wylie Internship Preparation Program to be held virtually Jan. 6, 2023, at www.icpas.org/mtww. “The

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Withum

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Our History Established in 1974 , Withum is a national top-ranking public accounting firm that provides advisory, tax, and audit services to businesses and individuals on a local-to-global scale.

audit

CPA Practice

MAY 23, 2024

Her expertise and in-depth approach to supporting clients were developed for more than a decade as she led and scaled other regional and national outsourced accounting practices. Outside of work, Brittany enjoys spending time with her five children and constructing a getaway home in Washington State with her husband.

bookkeeping

Going Concern

MARCH 3, 2023

In case you didn’t notice because who cares, Baker Tilly has engaged the help of filmmaker and adventurer Jimmy Chin and teenage tennis star Coco Gauff to brighten up the Baker Tilly name and recruit the youfs to this exciting accounting firm. TL;DR: firms “are prioritizing better pay for accountants.”

accounting firms

Going Concern

MAY 12, 2023

Talent Why Graduates Aren’t Hot on Accounting Careers: Low Starting Pay, Onerous Testing [ Wall Street Journal ] For Connor Verrett, an economics major and entrepreneurship minor at Washington & Lee University who expects to graduate this month, that roadblock was among the factors he considered in eschewing an accounting career. “It

CPA

KROST

APRIL 9, 2021

. – KROST CPAs and Consultants, Los Angeles-based firm, receives two new accolades from Accounting Today , Top 100 Firms, and Fastest-Growing Firms in the U.S. Additionally, the firm ranked No. 11 on the Regional Leaders on the West Coast which includes firms in California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.

cpa firm

Going Concern

AUGUST 5, 2022

If the world had no accountants [ The Indicator from Planet Money ] As the unsung heroes of the financial world, CPAs (Certified Public Accountants) are responsible for a wide range of important tasks, from balancing the books to investigating fraud. Meet the accountants who may become the new power brokers of taxes. [

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CPA Practice

JULY 31, 2023

The advisory group includes members who represent a range of perspectives, experiences, and constituencies, including state CPA societies, accounting firms of various sizes, state boards of accountancy, educators and business and industry.

CPA

Going Concern

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Audit regulator says accounting firms still falling short [ The Globe and Mail ] One of Canada’s Big Four auditing firms has a significant number of problems in its work for the second consecutive year, the national industry regulator has found. You need to become aware of everything that needs to (or ought to) be done.

Washington

CPA Practice

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Top 30 accounting firm Sikich said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire the federal government practice of top 10 accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA), a move that will expand the Naperville, IL-based firm’s presence in the Washington, D.C. Sikich entered the Washington, D.C.,

Government

Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

Last week, the AICPA released a revised pipeline acceleration plan , the goal of which is to get more young people into accounting to save the profession from extinction. At its spring meeting in Washington this week, the AICPA’s governing body (“Council”) approved this plan. Cue measured fanfare.

South Carolina

CPA Practice

JUNE 5, 2023

Professionals on the Move is a round-up of promotions and hiring announcements in and around the accounting profession. FORVIS adds Michael Shekel to forensics and valuation team in Washington, D.C. marke t FORVIS recently welcomed Michael Shekel as a managing director with the firm’s forensics and valuation team.

Indiana

CPA Practice

MAY 3, 2023

Prior to joining Centri, Blake was an audit partner at BDO USA, LLP, where he drove revenue growth for the firm’s Technology & Life Sciences industry groups. Blake earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from King’s College and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Washington

Going Concern

JANUARY 12, 2024

The auditor in question was Deloitte, the behemoth Big Four accounting firm with annual revenue of $65 billion through a global network that stretches from Amsterdam to Zhengzhou. Washington Wylie Internship Preparation Program. These issues were apparently not glaring enough for the company’s auditor, however.”

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The firm used the work of two firms not registered with the PCAOB — PKF Audisur of Argentina and PwC Malta of, duh, Malta — in “a substantial role capacity” on four issuer audits. The issuers were Scully Royalty, Ltd.,

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Withum

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Withum, a top-ranked national advisory and public accounting firm, announced the award of $95 thousand in grant funding through the Thomas R. Withum announced the award of $95 thousand in grant funding through the Thomas R. Suarez Student Loan Grant program to aid team members in their repayment of student loans.

accounting and finance

CPA Practice

JANUARY 18, 2023

ICPAS serves an extraordinary community of more than 22,600 accounting and finance professionals in a variety of CPA and non-CPA roles positioned throughout the public accounting, corporate finance, not-for-profit, consulting, education, and government sectors. Focusing on the firsthand experience of Mary T.

Illinois

Going Concern

APRIL 6, 2022

Let’s start with the salary guide to beat all salary guides: the 2022 Accounting & Finance Salary Guide from Robert Half. According to trusty ole Bob, starting pay in each of the 10 public accounting roles included in the 2022 salary guide is expected to rise by an average of between 1.4%

accountant salary

Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

Former partner Wayne Plummer told PwC partners in December that the firm had made an in-principle agreement with the Tax Office to settle on a no-admissions basis in return for a 50 per cent reduction in penalties that totalled several hundred thousand dollars. and Congressman Jason Smith, R-Mo.,

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

‘Surreal’ venue fight erupts in constitutional challenge to accounting oversight board [ Reuters ] For the third time in the last several months, a conservative U.S. appeals court is being asked to reclaim its authority over a lawsuit against a federal regulator after the case was transferred to Washington, D.C.

Kansas

Going Concern

MARCH 15, 2024

KPMG layoffs by u/corpslave_1998 in Big4 Deloitte fights for another shot at $789M SHARKCAGE cyber contract [ Washington Technology ] Deloitte wants back into the competition for a $789 million Navy contract that was captured by Accenture. The beloved accounting professor begins each semester detailing his early years in the trade. “My

auditor

Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The London-based global accounting firm officially known as PricewaterhouseCoopers International is in talks to lease three floors at a new office building at 3155 Olsen Drive, across from Santana Row in West San Jose, the San Jose Mercury News reported, citing unidentified sources. Rapid growth is great news for accounting firms.

auditor

Going Concern

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here’s some news from the AICPA via CPA Journal : Firms had a strong fiscal 2022, but number of accounting majors drops sharply. Accounting firms had a good fiscal 2022 with median growth rate of 9.1% The AICPA looked at several key performance indicators of public accounting firms.

Tax

Going Concern

JULY 29, 2024

Oh and reminder: the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is working on a plan to consolidate India’s 96,000 little accountancy firms into mega-firms that they think could compete with Big 4 on the global stage. INSIDE Public Accounting continues to tease the upcoming release of the IPA 500.

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