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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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The Best Tech for Accounting Firms: CPAs Voted for Readers Choice Tech Awards

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CPA Practice Advisor ‘s Readers’ Choice Awards , now in their 20th year, give our readers the chance to spotlight the technologies they most respect and trust to provide client services, manage their firms, and help their clients run their businesses. Many respondents chose more than one event.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Partners Are Split on the Split; PCAOB Further Annoys Auditors; Recruiting Events Are Back! | 3.31.23

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auditors who believe their part of the firm could end up weakened by a deal. audit, tax and advisory firm, as title sponsor in an effort to advance equity, access and opportunity for underrepresented and underrated youth in the sport of golf. John King and Frank Mahoney, senior U.S. Everyone is fighting for the same talent.”

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Morale Is Suffering After Layoffs; Ignoring Audit Quality? | 3.11.24

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Minnesota’s proposal to add a second pathway to CPA licensure that doesn’t require 150 hours of education is moving forward in the MN Senate. The work continues to grow but the supply of CPAs to do the work isn’t keeping up. … EY laid off 150 people three days before Christmas last year. We need to move forward.

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Listen Up, Young Accountants: Career Advice For Sticking Out Those Early Years

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Maginnis recalls early in his career when Newt Becker, founder of the Becker CPA exam prep courses, told him that every year spent in public accounting is the equivalent of two years in private industry. It could be sports and entertainment, tech companies, life science companies.” But by bailing out too soon, you miss it.

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Friday Footnotes: How Are Firms Actually Using Data Analytics?; KPMG and BDO on the Move | 9.15.23

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Audit Comments Raise Concerns About PCAOB’s Proposal To Expand the Scope of Audits and the Role of Auditors [ JD Supra ] In June 2023, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) proposed sweeping amendments to its auditing standards. Nelson & Nelson CPAs is the oldest existing accounting firm established in South Dakota.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Green Dot Gives Back; More Consulting Cuts Coming? | 6.12.23

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Mississippi auditor Shad White issued a report Thursday that said the state’s public universities spent $23.4 Deloitte’s Sports Business Group in the UK has released their annual football finance report. Ackerman in the Sep/Oct 2022 CPA Journal was a great article. We analyzed (isn’t that what CPAs like to do?)

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