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Our Obsession with Hours Is Destroying the Accounting Profession

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By Blake Oliver, CPA, and Chris Vanover, CPA. CPAs have always been passionate about numbers, using various metrics such as revenue, profit, headcount and realization to measure success. However, this focus on numerical indicators is contributing to the decline of the CPA profession itself.

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

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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. The plan, which builds on earlier drafts to create a nationwide CPA pipeline strategy, will be presented next week at the spring meeting of the AICPA’s governing council.

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Friday Footnotes: RTO Isn’t Going So Great; KPMG Wins Something; What Auditors? | 5.19.23

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Each received the same set of questions, aimed at measuring what share of crypto’s upper echelon employs a third-party auditor and has an independent board. More than half of the firms provided full or partial responses, while 17 declined to participate and eight didn’t respond at all. Chinese companies switch auditors to avoid U.S.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Isn’t Getting a Redemption; Just Say No to NOCLAR; Oh, Layoffs? | 3.15.24

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Social compliance audits have become a multibillion-dollar global industry, as corporations hire firms—sometimes confidentially—to perform hundreds of thousands of workplace safety inspections each year and solve potential public relations issues when supply chain or labor matters surface. Education Sen. Seven percent are not sure.

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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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Let’s note here quickly that many of the “anti-150” folks aren’t lobbying to abolish it completely but to offer alternative pathways such as Minnesota’s proposal to create a second pathway to licensure that would require 120 units of education and two years of experience. We needed to take some action.”

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AuditClub Unveils AuditClub Ally to Align Audit and Accounting Professionals

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AuditClub, the Audit Service Center for CPA firms and companies, has launched a new alliance model designed to connect tax and non-attest accountants with AuditClub One assurance professionals to improve service delivery options to clients. “In As a result, Lighthouse has become a one-stop shop for all accounting related services.”

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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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” Complying with the Corporate Transparency Act [ CPA Journal ] By now, CPAs should be aware of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), passed in 2021 and effective January 1, 2024. But until a deferral is confirmed, CPAs must consider which role they will serve for clients required to file when the CTA becomes effective.