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Friday Footnotes: KPMG UK Pay Freeze; PwC Canada Layoffs; EY Bailing on Office? | 11.24.23

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Furthermore, the perception of accounting as a tedious field, coupled with long working hours and a stressful environment, has contributed to the shortage​​​​. The shortage is also not limited to tax accountants but extends to those involved in financial planning, auditing, and other accounting tasks​​.

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Talent-Strapped Down Under Deloitte and EY Are Importing Staff

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The firms have welcomed the changes to the visa system proposed by the federal government last week aimed at simplifying and speeding up the process, even though recruitment and immigration experts warn it could lead to more ‘job hopping’ by sponsored workers. Let’s see what he said.

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Top Remote Accountants of the Week | May 16, 2024

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Struggling to find remote accountants, CAS experts, auditors, or tax professionals for your firm or internal team? With our Always-On Recruiting service, access a pool of skilled remote accountants without any upfront costs. Accountingfly can help!

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Unintended Audit Consequences; The IRS Needs Experienced Accountants; PwC AI | 9.18.23

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This next wave of hiring will help the IRS add key talent like tax accountants to help reverse a decade-long decline of audits for the wealthy as well as complex partnerships and corporations. These new employees will be focused on higher-income and complex tax areas like partnerships, not average taxpayers making less than $400,000.”

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Friday Footnotes: RSM Layoffs; The Leader Who Cried On His First Day; Advisory Pays Better (Duh) | 5.5.23

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The models can read documents and pull-out information that auditors are looking for. “It It makes doing audits much faster, eliminating some of the human error, providing move value to some of the accounting audit work that we do for our clients,” he said. “The

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Embarrasses Itself (Again); Archaic IRS Tech; Partners Battle It Out | 2.27.23

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. “IRS tech is so ‘archaic’ the agency struggles to find people to work it” from The Washington Post : The Internal Revenue Service, which funds nearly everything the federal government does, uses information technology that is creaking with old age. Yet that is what the IRS deals with every day.”

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Watch That Utilization; PwC CEO Doesn’t Know His Own Salary | 2.19.24

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Underemployed staff at the Big Four auditors risk losing their jobs as firms step up their scrutiny of employee workloads in a downturn. The liquidators were “taking steps to protect [their ability to bring] legal claims against auditors”, one of the people said. billion debt burden and total liabilities in excess of $300 billion.

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