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Guide to accountant responsibilities

ThomsonReuters

Preparing tax returns. Additionally, depending on the type of firm, accountants may be involved in more advisory-centric responsibilities, such as analyzing financial data and providing clients with strategic guidance and recommendations on how to reduce costs and boost profitability. Recording disbursements and payments.

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Friday Footnotes: Accounting’s Big Lie; BDO Poaching; EY Partners Get Whipped | 10.07.22

Going Concern

Private company CFOs grapple with new lease accounting [ CFO Dive ]. At its core, under the new standards the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) wants all companies to record operating leases longer than one year on their balance sheet, both as an asset and a liability, in the same way as capital leases have always been recorded.

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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

Going Concern

“I would have thought that accountants would be seen as boring, but effective and the perfect person to do a good job on your tax return,” Wijnand Van Tilburg, a study co-author and senior lecturer in the university’s psychology department, said in a statement last week.

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Friday Footnotes: Deloitte’s Naughty Workpapers; Audit Reform Critics; Clients Getting Dropped Like Mics | 3.4.22

Going Concern

in Tax Season ‘Chaos’ [ New York Times ] At the Internal Revenue Service’s sprawling Kansas City, Mo., processing center, teams of clerks earning $15 per hour work through the night, trying to help the agency clear a backlog of more than 20 million tax returns that are a year overdue. Decades of Neglect Leave I.R.S.

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Friday Footnotes: Retired EY Partners Hate on the Split; It’s a Raid!; ‘An Alphabet Soup of Technology’ | 11.18.22

Going Concern

A superseding indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Dallas today charging a Texas lawyer and three co-conspirators with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, helping their clients file false tax returns, and conspiracy to defraud the United States, all based on an illegal tax shelter they promoted and helped implement.

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AI in Accounting: A Guide Written by Artificial Intelligence

Ryan Lazanis

Here’s chatCPA , a bot trained by CPAs that you can chat with for only $6/month: That being said: Advanced technologies like AI can assist and improve the work of accountants, but they cannot entirely replace them because of their inability to perform essential human skills such as judgment, communication, and critical thinking.

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Your Firm and Your AI Strategy

CPA Practice

Here are some of them: Tax Preparation and Filing : This is often the most time-consuming task in an accounting firm, especially during the tax season. It involves collecting and organizing client data, analyzing it to ensure compliance with tax laws, preparing tax returns, and filing them on behalf of clients.