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Dean Dorton and VonLehman to Combine on Jan. 1

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It’s not quite a “ mega merger ,” but a top 100 CPA firm and a top 200 CPA firm will be merging on Jan. Dean Dorton, based in Lexington, KY, and VonLehman CPA & Advisory Firm, based in Fort Wright, KY, announced their marriage on Tuesday. It’s a great move from every perspective.”

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CPA Firms’ Consulting Arms Get Some Love in New Ranking

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The ranking is based on nomination submissions from professionals in and around the consulting, professional services, and tech services industries, The Consulting Report said. In the top five, global management consulting firm Kearney took the No. Two accounting firmsconsulting arms made the top 10.

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Don Scholl, a Well-Liked and Respected Consultant to the CPA Profession, Has Died

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Donald Scholl, who provided management consulting and training services to hundreds of public accounting firms during the course of his more than 40-year career and created many development programs for CPAs, including the popular Management for Results, has passed away. He was 88 years old.

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Friday Footnotes: Tim Ryan Works Too Hard; Fake CPA Gets Violent Over QuickBooks Files; PwC PR | 10.20.23

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A consulting firm struggled to find the right hybrid work model. day workweek [ Fortune ] Management consulting firm Insigniam has seemingly found that happy medium after instituting a 4.5-day It also marks the firm’s fifth office location in the South. Here’s how it landed on a 4.5-day

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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

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Meanwhile, the audit side is under increased regulatory pressure because of perceived lapses in audit quality at accounting firms of all sizes. The median pay advertised for entry-level management consulting and financial analyst roles, by contrast, was $70,000 and $75,000, respectively. This might be good.

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Friday Footnotes: Working 100 Hours a Week (For Real); 99% of Firms Short on Staff; The EY Power Struggle | 8.4.23

Going Concern

Less than 1% of firms can find enough staff [ Accounting Today ] Relatively few CPA firms are able to find enough employees to fill their ranks and are resorting to strategies like hiring workers abroad, raising starting salaries, offering fully remote jobs, and hiring staff who haven’t graduated college, according to a new survey.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Bans ChatGPT For Job Seekers; An EY Boomeranger | 3.4.24

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She is also looking into postgraduate study, in case she needs to defer her consulting plans. “It It has been a period of worry for some young consultants,” agrees Tamzen Isacsson, chief executive of the Management Consultancies Association (MCA). Audit) by u/DurianImpossible4479 in Big4 K, I’m done.

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