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Starting your own CPA firm: Tips from 2 success stories

ThomsonReuters

Now that tax season is in full swing for many practitioners, you may find yourself questioning if this is the right time to break off and explore starting your own CPA firm. Together, we discuss career paths and the best advice for those looking to rise to individual success within the tax and accounting profession.

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Earn $20 per Book Promoting My Tax Preparer Book from Home in Your Spare Time

AdviceForTaxpreparers

Earn $20 per Book Promoting My Tax Preparer Book from Home in Your Spare Time. 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. Bill Meador, CPA, JD. Latest posts by Bill Meador, CPA, JD ( see all ).

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Get to Know TaxConnex: Partner Q&A Series - Robert Dumas

TaxConnex

I graduated in 1985 with a Masters in Tax. I was trained in income tax and expected to have a career in public accounting, but I only lasted a few years in a couple of different large CPA firms. I then went to the BellSouth Corporation tax department and had various roles.

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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. a full-service tax, attest and business advisory firm, effective Feb.

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Friday Footnotes: Tim Ryan Works Too Hard; Fake CPA Gets Violent Over QuickBooks Files; PwC PR | 10.20.23

Going Concern

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

Nancy McClelland, LLC

To say nothing of the fact that the next government shutdown deadline is scheduled for one week before business tax returns are due. 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.

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Friday Footnotes: EY’s Six CEO Candidates; Deloitte UK Partner Payouts Increase Again; IIA Gets Their Way | 9.29.23

Going Concern

And CPAs in this space know what that means in terms of legal exposure. Rapid growth is great news for accounting firms. But when it takes place in situations of significant information asymmetry between companies and investors, CPA firms should beware.

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