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Illinois CPA Society Presents 2023 Advancing Diversity Awards

CPA Practice

The Illinois CPA Society, one of the largest state associations in the nation serving the certified public accountant community, has announced the recipients of its 2023 Lester H. McKinney , CPA , MSAA, is a senior business process and control analyst in Abbott’s Rapid Diagnostics Division. McKeever Jr.

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Professionals on the Move – Jan. 2024

CPA Practice

PKF Mueller Joins Cherry Bekaert to Expand Chicago Market Reach Cherry Bekaery, an assurance, tax and advisory firm, recently completed an acquisition transaction with PKF Mueller , a full-service certified public accounting and business advisory firm located in the metropolitan Chicago area.

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Episode 068: A conversation with Allan Koltin

BuildYourFirm

Koltin was also voted one of the 10 Most Recommended Consultants for the sixteenth straight year in the “Annual Survey of Firms” conducted by INSIDE Public Accounting. For the past six years, Allan has also been named by CPA Practice Advisor as one of the Top 25 Thought Leaders in the profession.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

Going Concern

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. million class settlement with workers who say the accounting firm mismanaged their $1.2

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Professionals on the Move: Feb. 2024

CPA Practice

a Top 60 independent Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firm has expanded the leadership team in its Tax Advisory practice through the addition of several new hires. Heidel graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelors in Accounting and Finance and received her Master’s from Wake Forest University.

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Tax Season 2023 Is Officially Open! Maybe. Okay, Not So Fast.

Nancy McClelland, LLC

It felt like we finally had a handle on things and were back to the “normal” amount of seasonal overwork — rather than a Herculean lift, as was the case for the past four years. Enter Congress. And we were freaking out about that delay. I can’t imagine what six weeks will look like.

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This Accountant Shortage Nonsense Reeks of Deja Vu

Going Concern

From the JofA piece: One of the early warning signs that major changes in accounting education were needed came when major CPA firms reengineered themselves as “professional services” rather than “public accountingfirms. OH MY GOD this could have been written in 2022.

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