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Why Economic Volatility Opens Up Opportunity For The Modern Corporate Accountant

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With market volatility and economic pressure higher than it has been in more than a decade, the ways businesses manage and account for their money is inevitably included in that wave of operational change. That means significant implications for the ways accountants and auditors operate both within an enterprise and externally from it.

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Aussie Auditors’ Role In Reverse Factoring Disclosure Questioned

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Several high-profile corporate collapses and initiatives from corporate accounting standard-setters have raised questions about businesses’ use of supply chain finance and whether the trade finance tool prevents investors and auditors from gaining a transparent view into company finances.

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Here Are Even More 2024 Accounting Salary Projections

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Last month we took a look at the 2024 Robert Half Salary Guide to get an idea what public accounting salaries should be in the range of next year, today it’s a similar report from Addison Group and their 2024 Workforce Planning Guide. The guide covers several industries, we are of course only here for accounting. Say what now?

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How CPA Firms Can Compete for Top Talent in the Year Ahead

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This concern is not misplaced: Research for the 2024 Salary Guide From Robert Half found that organizations in both public and corporate accounting are grappling with an accountant shortage. Without question, the finance and accounting profession has some significant talent challenges.

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150 Hour Rule: Let’s Keep Arguing About What Color the Drapes Should Be While the House is Burning Down

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To summarize most of the article: barrier to entry, US workforce hemorrhaged 334,000 accountants and auditors in two years, pipeline pipeline pipeline, blah blah. And Julie Blaha, Minnesota state auditor: “This is now a severe shortage, and it is causing a tsunami of problems. We needed to take some action.”

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Friday Footnotes: Remembering Legend Sid Kess; Andersen’s Doing Great; Poland Banned Deloitte From Auditing? | 9.22.23

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Miller was appointed vice president for finance in April 2020 and also serves as the university treasurer. Under his leadership, the Division of Finance has enhanced university business practices and transformed several financial and business information systems to improve customer service for faculty, staff, and students.

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Friday Footnotes: Bob Moritz Disappoints Us; ERC Window Slamming Shut; 2024 Sucks For Firms? | 3.22.24

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With the backing of several partners, the savvy accounting professional established skills training firm Hustle Singapore in 2022, and ran it so successfully, the team expanded to 20-strong in a year. Many in finance are looking to take on senior roles in MNCs and eventually become CFO,” she says. “My My path is different.