AdviceForTaxpreparers

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

by Bill Meador, CPA, JD. My name is Bill Meador and I am writing a book to help tax staff succeed in a public accounting firm tax department. Since I do not plan to sell this book through a publishing company, I need another way to market the book to the public. Bill Meador, CPA, JD. The choice is up to you.

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CPA Practice

MAY 18, 2023

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 AICPA said the plan will continue to evolve and expand as existing milestones are met and new initiatives are added.

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Going Concern

MAY 13, 2024

AT&T is coming for your recruits : AT&T Woos Accounting Students, Bypasses Big Four Training Ground AT&T Inc.’s ’s top accountant is confronting a competitive job market by rethinking the company’s traditional reliance on large CPA firms as a training ground for new hires, taking her recruiting pitch on-campus instead.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 31, 2023

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 20, 2023

PKF Mueller Joins Cherry Bekaert to Expand Chicago Market Reach [ PR Newswire ] Cherry Bekaert is pleased to announce the completion of an acquisition transaction with PKF Mueller, a full-service certified public accounting and business advisory firm located in the metropolitan Chicago area. This move, effective Nov.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 11, 2023

Brian Yujuico has been named vice president and senior chief auditor at AuditClub, the Audit Service Center and creator of the innovative auditors-as-a-service model. In this newly created role, Yujuico, a Certified Public Accountant, will oversee day-to-day activities of the growing team of chief auditors, crew and cadets.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 21, 2023

AuditClub, a collaborative “Audit Service Center” for CPA firms and companies, has introduced AuditClub One, a in order to address the talent exodus and pipeline problems prevailing throughout the profession. Accountants are leaving corporations and audit firms in record numbers, as they reevaluate what they want from their careers.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 17, 2024

Drawing inspiration from the customer-centric and digital experiences offered by modern companies, CPAClub was driven to address the profession’s staffing shortages and streamline outdated processes by upending the traditional CPA firm model. Traditional CPA and consulting firms’ approaches have become outdated and ineffective.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 30, 2023

Deloitte & Touche LLP partners and staffers failed to make financial disclosures required to ensure the independence of their audit work, according to new details from the firm’s 2018 PCAOB inspection. I have had only one or two students interested in working for a CPA firm the last couple of years.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. Companies, not just CPA firms, are struggling to fill senior accountant roles and jobs for accountants with three to five years of experience.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It wasn’t until 2015 that a woman became CEO of a Big 4 accounting firm for the first time. 65% of new graduate new hires hired into accounting/finance functions of U.S. CPA firms are white. Starting I couldn’t take the kind of paycut to be a entry level field auditor or tax. Accounting is miserable.

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Going Concern

MARCH 22, 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. City Manager Tom Sarvey said every three years, the city is required to review its contracted auditing firm. What Role Should Auditors Play in Corporate Compliance?

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RitaKeller

MARCH 29, 2022

I have thought for years that CPA firm starting salaries have lagged behind the rest of the world. Maybe the lack of interest in majoring in accounting and entering the field of public accounting reflects this line of thought.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both the city and county utilize the services of Porter, Muirhead, Cornia and Howard (PMCH) — a certified public accountant based in Casper — for their audits. The firm works with the local governments to compile information for the audit throughout the year. We have that on file with the state.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 1, 2022

At trial, Vatican auditor says he was shocked by misuse of funds [ Catholic News Service ]. The Vatican auditor general said he was surprised by the lack of ethical standards demonstrated by officials considering investment opportunities, including a failed London property development deal. Accountant Life.

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RitaKeller

AUGUST 31, 2021

Here is the landing page for Paro For CPA Firms. Paro is a talent marketplace for US-based accounting professionals (freelancers). Following is information from their promo material: The CPA Firm Solution to Staffing Capacity Challenges. I have talked to clients who use Paro and they were very pleased.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

” The updated version, issued on September 28th, removes problematic language which could be construed as indicating that internal auditors are not inherently trustworthy and unable to exercise due care in the performance of their duties. And CPAs in this space know what that means in terms of legal exposure.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

However, the professional services firm refused, after claiming the report contained privileged and confidential information. You gotta pay the piper,” Romeo Razi, a certified public accountant based in Las Vegas, tells CNBC Make It. a full-service tax, attest and business advisory firm, effective Feb.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

At the meeting, the Board will consider issuing for public comment a proposal to amend PCAOB Rule 3502, Responsibility Not to Knowingly or Recklessly Contribute to Violations. A number of accounting firms,1 public companies, professional membership associations and other key stakeholders raised concerns.

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Going Concern

MAY 5, 2023

We’ll see how those trends unfold overtime as the economy continues to shift,” says Adam Batechlor, chief strategy and innovation officer at the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA), which conducted the survey of more than 300 CPA firms in the state with Hinge Research Institute.

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Withum

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) are the trusted providers of most companies for financial auditing and have been supporting the assurance of non-financial ESG and climate information for decades. Regulation: Many of the world’s most far-reaching climate regulations require assurances from pre-approved third-party auditors.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

‘There’s definitely an accountant shortage out there’: MBAs have become the go-to degree and companies are struggling to hire enough CPAs [ Fortune ]. Many auditors responding to the FERF study noted an increase in effort by their teams (68%). PLC has joined with REDW effective Oct.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Nationally Ranked Accounting Firm Welcomes New Forensic and Litigation Principal Windham Brannon , an INSIDE Public Accounting Top 200 Firm, recently welcomed Kevin Bennett as a Principal for the firm’s Forensic and Litigation Services practice in October 2023. David Winter, Ga. Denise Zaharoff, Ga.

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Going Concern

JUNE 23, 2023

Office Hours: CPA Firms Shift Toward More In-Person Collaboration and More Square Footage [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] Three years after accounting professionals were forced home by COVID and then back to the office, at least part of the time, firms are beginning to settle into a new normal.

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Going Concern

APRIL 20, 2022

As I snarkily mentioned last week , the AICPA has finally released its much-anticipated 2021 Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits (or Trends , for short) report [PDF here ], a behemoth data dump of accounting industry stats first released in 1971 and released every two years since 2009.

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CPA Practice

JULY 27, 2023

As an example of the ChatGPT response to “What are the most time-consuming items in a CPA Firm,” ChatGPT suggested the following (completely unedited): Accounting or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) firms often have to manage numerous tasks, some of which can be quite time-consuming.

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Ryan Lazanis

AUGUST 2, 2023

In this article, you’re going to get a ton of inspiration plus a whole bunch of tips for picking amazing accounting firm names. Table of Contents How to Choose a CPA Firm Name? Choosing an accounting firm name is all about branding and how you want the outside world to perceive you.

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Going Concern

MARCH 1, 2024

Accountant Shortage There are 340,000 Fewer Accountants, and Companies Are Paying the Price [ Bloomberg ] Aspiring accountants essentially need five years of college to earn a Certified Public Accountant license. The need for business model transformation in accounting firms.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 26, 2024

Long Read Corporate Self-Oversight [ The American Prospect ] Four auditing firms examine the books of nearly every big U.S. AI Is your firm keeping pace? How AI is transforming audit [ Thomson Reuters ] In the past, auditors have heavily relied on manual processes to uncover risks in financial statements and business operations.

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Going Concern

MARCH 17, 2023

Restoring Exam credits expired during COVID would help address CPA shortage [ AICPA ] The accounting profession is confronted with a talent shortage, and reinstating CPA exam credits that have expired since January 1, 2020, could have an immediate impact on our CPA pipeline.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

CPA firms of all sizes and practice types could choose to recruit entry-level hires into the program. The program is also open to companies, not-for-profits, and government employers who hire CPA-track staff. The discussions will be led by recognized and respected thought leaders in the profession.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Conflict Surrounding Work-Life Balance in Public Accounting Firms [ CPA Journal ] For years, the public accounting sector has been characterized by high employee turnover. public accounting firms, however, turnover has continued to increase.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 27, 2023

Big 4 EY auditors escape potential Wirecard sanctions after leaving profession [ Financial Times ] Germany’s audit watchdog closed investigations against four current and former EY auditors involved in inspecting collapsed payments firm Wirecard after they handed back their professional licences and left the profession earlier this month.

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Anders CPA

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Terrell (00:01:51) – Yeah, so I started off probably like most people studied accounting, went into public accounting, figured out that wasn’t the route I wanted to go. Terrell (00:01:59) – I didn’t want to be an auditor. And so, I think that expertise really can help a lot.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Advice What I did next [ Deloitte ] Deloitte alumnus Aaron Westgate talks about teaching accounting. Q: What advice would you give your student working on their first project as qualified auditor? Illinois, where even a study funded by the state of Illinois universities found that they were second in the country for public corruption.”

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Britain’s biggest companies and their auditors are playing a £10bn game of musical chairs. When the music stops we will have learnt something about how seriously we should take the Big Four accountants’ opposition to audit market reforms. The accountants argued a compulsory merry-go-round was unnecessary and would hurt audit quality.

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Going Concern

APRIL 8, 2022

CPA firms show progress in diversity amid pipeline challenges [ Journal of Accountancy ] The AICPA finally got around to releasing their 2021 Trends report, which we’ll dissect shortly. in 2020) in the portion of new accounting graduate hires at CPA firms who are ethnically diverse. in 2018 to 34.7%

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