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Many Finance and Accounting Workers Are Optimistic About the Job Market — Here’s How CPA Firms Can Respond

CPA Practice

However, it doesn’t mean CPA firms are finding it any easier to staff available positions — or hold on to the valued employees they already have in place. hiring and employment trends found that 95% of hiring managers in finance and accounting face challenges in locating skilled candidates available for hire.

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3 reasons for the accountant shortage (and how CPA firms can attract candidates in 2023)

Accounting Insight

Several factors contribute to the shortage, like mid-career CPAs changing professions, or early retirements spurred by the pandemic. But why has the accounting profession become so unattractive? We’ve gathered three reasons for the shortage of accountants, as well as solutions for CPA firms to consider.

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Are accounting firms keeping remote work positions?

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Are there still remote accounting jobs? The short answer is yes, remote accounting jobs are still being offered. 41 percent of finance and accounting professionals are looking or planning to look for a new job in the first half of 2023. And forward-looking firms are heeding the call.

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AICPA Says it Has a Plan to Fix the CPA Talent Shortage

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One of the biggest questions currently being asked by many throughout the accounting profession is, “How can we make accounting more appealing to students?” There’s plenty of accounting jobs out there that need to be filled— more than 300,000 accountants and auditors have left the profession in the past few years.

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Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor

AdviceForTaxpreparers

Staff: …… Another CPA call. A tax partner once told me about a client who complained that every number on his tax return prepared by the CPA firm was wrong because the amounts had been rounded. Famous (and sometimes funny) Public Accounting Quotes. Latest posts by Bill Meador, CPA, JD ( see all ).

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Friday Footnotes: For the Last Time, Salaries Are Too Low; NOCLAR Is Back; Big 4 Beat Up Again | 3.1.24

Going Concern

For many 22- to 27-year-olds, known as Generation Z, their average student debt of more than $20,000 and the lure of higher-paying Wall Street and Silicon Valley firms means the time and effort required to become a CPA doesn’t pencil out.

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How to Grow Expertise, Build a Stronger Career, and Develop Talent Pipelines

CPA Practice

There are several ways accounting professionals and organizations can benefit from upskilling and reskilling online — whether to prepare for the CPA exam, build cutting-edge analytic capabilities, or create a new talent strategy. In 2020, the World Economic Forum predicted a decline in accounting jobs by 2025.