Accounting Today

JUNE 9, 2025

Gary Boomer June 9, 2025 10:00 AM Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email As CPA firms grow into the $10 million to $100 million revenue range, operational complexity increases, especially during peak periods like tax season. Identify opportunities Assess pain points in tax, audit, scheduling, and advisory workflows.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 18, 2025

Mary Girsch-Bock AICPA News is a collection of recent announcements and news briefs from the American Institute of CPAs. AICPA Announces Retirement of Carl Peterson, Longtime Advocate for Small CPA Firms The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) recently announced that Carl Peterson, vice president of small firm interests, will retire June 30.

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Accounting Today

JULY 24, 2025

If an online shipping company can inject that much personality into something as mundane as postage, whats stopping CPA firms from doing the same? Too often, accounting firms hide behind a veil of professionalism that borders on sterile. Here are five ways CPA firms can embrace that idea: 1. It got me thinking.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In a matter of weeks, we should be hearing that the Pentagon has failed yet another audit. Defense One argues this is a good thing : Far from a mere compliance exercise, the cultural and technological changes required to pass an audit are the same ones necessary to keep U.S. forces dominant.

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Accounting Today

JUNE 9, 2025

audit clients are ready to change firms within the next three years, according to a new report. audit clients are ready to change firms within the next three years, according to a new report. Inflos "Creating a New Audit Experience for U.S. Five percent of respondents answered "nothing."

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Accounting Today

JUNE 9, 2025

By Paige Hagy 9h ago Practice management Boomer's Blueprint: 4 ways algorithms can improve your firm Midsized CPA firms can leverage algorithms for operational excellence across multiple service lines and functions. Gary Boomer June 9 Audit Two-thirds of clients ready to change auditors Seventy percent of U.S.

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Accounting Today

JULY 9, 2025

Madison Street Advisors offers tax planning and preparation, focusing on audit mitigation strategies and reduction of audit profiles. Its team of attorneys, CPAs, and enrolled agents represents clients in disputes with the IRS and state agencies.

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CPA Practice

JULY 16, 2025

OBannon Firm Management July 15, 2025  The Rise of Non-CPAs in CPA Firm Acquisitions A growing number of non-CPA buyers are acquiring multiple CPA firms to build scalable, regional, and niche accounting businesses. Jason Bramwell Mergers and Acquisitions July 16, 2025  Welch & Co.

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CPA Practice

JULY 2, 2025

Jason Bramwell Fort Lauderdale, FL-based accounting firm Alpine Mar has expanded its client offerings to include assurance services after acquiring Elliot Melamed PA, a boutique CPA firm in Coral Springs, FL. in Ohio The top 30 accounting firm has its first location in Ohio after merging in Cincinnati-based CPA firm Flynn & Co.

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Accounting Today

JUNE 9, 2025

To start, ownership in a CPA firm is more expensive today than it ever has been. There is more than $15 billion of private capital (more than 1x revenue for the remaining, independent G400) that has decided an ownership stake is worth more than what your firms partnership agreement says it is. Heres a crash course.

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Accounting Today

JULY 25, 2025

INDIANA The Indiana CPA Society announced its board of directors for 2025–26; on the executive committee: chair Lisa Tressler, partner, RBSK Partners PC; chair-elect Corbin Miller, partner, Insight Accounting Group; vice chairs: Colby Chamberlin, manager, Pile CPAs; E.

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CPA Practice

JULY 17, 2025

OBannon Mergers and Acquisitions July 17, 2025  Doeren Mayhew Acquires Reimer McGuinness Hess in Texas The top 60 accounting firm has acquired Houston CPA firm Reimer McGuinness Hess CPAs & Advisors, growing its presence in the market, effective July 1.

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Withum

MAY 7, 2025

We also added a Chicago office on May 1, 2025, with the merger with the Lincolnshire, IL firm CTM CPAs and Business Advisors. Last year, I, along with Pat, Bill and Jim, were also on Forbes first-ever Top 200 CPAs in America list. To learn more, the entire Best-In-State CPAs list is available on Forbes.

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Going Concern

MARCH 21, 2025

Talent Navigating the Accounting Pipeline Crisis [ CPA Journal ] Anthony J. On September 12, 2024, NASBA and AICPA unveiled their CPA Competency-Based Experience Pathway for public comment. The tax arrangements had been blessed by the other Big Four accountancy, EY, which has audited the drinks makers financial statements since 1921.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Bring in the CPAs! Writes Religion Unplugged : Responding to a lawsuit accusing Dallas-based Gateway Church of financial fraud, Gateway Elder Tra Willbanks assured congregants over the weekend that the church has “independently audited financial statements since 2005.” Audits will always require human judgment.

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Accounting Today

JUNE 9, 2025

EDT 4 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Even as accountants worry about a host of pressing issues, there are strong reasons to be optimistic about the future of the profession, according to Mark Koziel the president and CEO of the American Institute of CPAs. The SEC, too, would like to look at things differently." "The

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Going Concern

JUNE 13, 2025

The response, sometimes heated, confirmed that this is an issue that employers and individual CPAs are wrestling with. Talent Accounting firms becoming more reliant on overseas talent, survey finds [ Accounting Times ] Barf at pinning this on the so-called accountant shortage. “I I appreciated hearing from everyone.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 18, 2025

OBannon For several weeks, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), along with various other stakeholders, have raised concerns over proposals to eliminate the pass-through entity tax (PTET) state and local tax (SALT) deduction for specified service trades or businesses (SSTBs). Thanks for reading CPA Practice Advisor!

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Going Concern

APRIL 4, 2025

Orlando pet supply store, accounting firm file for Ch. CPA Firm Ciuni & Panichi Files Official Notice of Data Breach [ JD Supra ] On April 1, 2025, Ciuni & Panichi, Inc. Several older CPAs have retired and sold or closed their businesses, but they are not being replaced quickly enough.

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CPA Practice

JULY 18, 2025

Brian Tankersley , Randy Johnston Mergers and Acquisitions July 17, 2025  Doeren Mayhew Acquires Reimer McGuinness Hess in Texas The top 60 accounting firm has acquired Houston CPA firm Reimer McGuinness Hess CPAs & Advisors, growing its presence in the market, effective July 1.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Audit Private Equity’s Ties to Companies’ Auditors Have Never Been Closer. accounting firms will have either sold an ownership stake or part of their business to private-equity investors, up from zero in 2020, said Allan Koltin, chief executive at advisory firm Koltin Consulting Group. That Worries Some Regulators.

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Going Concern

JULY 18, 2025

Audit Automated auditors: could AI undermine financial reporting? Paradoxically, AI can turn the audit into a black box,” he adds. Then, just 38 per cent of BDO’s audits were ranked as satisfactory. Here in Massachusetts, the collapse last year of Steward Health Care has been widely blamed on its ties to PE.

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Going Concern

MARCH 3, 2025

We should probably talk about this: 25-35 year old accountants/CPAs should be scared right now. Not to be click baity but I had this realization on my way to Los Angeles this morning (buying an accounting firm). Gone are the days where you can work for a CPA firm for 20 years and just be granted partner. Have a good week!

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Accounting Today

JUNE 9, 2025

By Paige Hagy 9h ago Practice management Boomer's Blueprint: 4 ways algorithms can improve your firm Midsized CPA firms can leverage algorithms for operational excellence across multiple service lines and functions. Gary Boomer June 9 Audit Two-thirds of clients ready to change auditors Seventy percent of U.S.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 30, 2023

One of the panelists, Jackie Cardello, president and managing partner of Bethesda, MD-based GRF CPAs & Advisors, said the stigma and the stereotype associated with CPAs and accountants—and the profession in general—needs to change, and that change can begin in high school. You don’t have to be a CPA.

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But what does this mean for small CPA firms who don’t perform audits? In this episode of Pulse of Practice “Should a Small Firm Care?”, Paul Miller, CPA from Business by Design , and I are joined by Brian Fox, Founder of Confirmation, part of Thomson Reuters. How public company fraud affects the small CPA firm.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 30, 2024

Syracuse, NY-based accounting firm Bowers CPAs & Advisors has expanded its presence in Rochester after combining with Kasperski Dinan & Rink CPAs on Jan. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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KROST

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

KROST CPAs and Consultants, the Los Angeles based firm, has announced a new Principal, Stacey R. Korman, CPA, MST. Stacey has extensive experience in assurance & advisory and accounting services and since joining the firm she has led the accounting and audit departments. Pasadena, CA.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In our blog last week, we looked at how sales and use tax advisory services might be a good new field for CPAs and accounting firms. Mark Friedlich, CPA, vice president of U.S. Mark Friedlich, CPA, vice president of U.S. How can they go about making the move? How can you easily access this demand?:

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The numbers don’t lie: of 658,267 actively licensed CPAs in 53 of the 55 licensing jurisdictions, less than 1% are Black (2020 data), a number that has remained largely unchanged in 40 years. It wasn’t until 2015 that a woman became CEO of a Big 4 accounting firm for the first time. CPA firms are white.

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Going Concern

JULY 7, 2023

Fixing the Crisis in Accounting [ The CPA Journal ] Related to the above post: Individuals, companies, and professional organizations need to be more intentional in getting young people excited about joining the accounting profession. In comparison, audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5, the paper said. and NetEase Inc.,

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 22, 2024

Kansas City, MO-based Mayer Hoffman McCann (MHM) has changed its name to CBIZ CPAs, according to a Aug. The now-former MHM is a national independent CPA firm with which CBIZ has had an administrative service agreement for more than 25 years. 21 media release. It’s a separate legal entity from CBIZ.

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CPA Practice

JULY 3, 2024

As your clients’ businesses expand their operations across state lines, it is crucial for your firm to help them understand and manage tax nexus. For CPAs and accountants, guiding clients through the intricacies of tax nexus also means monitoring and ensuring compliance and optimizing tax strategies.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 16, 2024

Talent The future of audit talent [ Thomson Reuters ] The landscape for audit talent is shifting significantly. To Recruit More CPAs, Show Them What’s Possible [ FEI ] Auditor, chief financial officer, data scientist, regulator, entrepreneur. Those are some of the many careers available to a certified public accountant (CPA).

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 19, 2024

The firm’s commitment to listening to employees’ needs and supporting community involvement promotes a culture of well-being, accountability and work-life balance. Process Visionary Award: Anders CPAs + Advisors [link] Anders CPAs + Advisors has revolutionized client data management by implementing a full-cycle CRM.

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Analytix Finance & Accounting

APRIL 28, 2023

The role of technology in modern CPA firms has been growing rapidly in recent years. The adoption of new technologies has brought significant benefits to CPA firms, including increased efficiency, improved accuracy, and better client service. Opportunities: 1. Challenges: 1.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 2, 2024

MaloneBailey, LLP Welcomes Howie Tang, New Audit Partner MaloneBailey, LLP, a global, mid-market, public accounting firm based in Houston, Texas, recently announced that Howie Tang, CPA has joined the firm as an Audit Partner. Tang joins the firm from Marcum Asia CPAs LLP where he served as an Audit Partner.

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