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How CPA Firms Can Compete for Top Talent in the Year Ahead

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CPA firm leaders outlining staffing plans for the coming year can’t help but worry if they will hit their hiring goals. CPA firms are bearing the brunt of other trends, too, like the dwindling population of college students graduating with accounting degrees.

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Many Finance and Accounting Workers Are Optimistic About the Job Market — Here’s How CPA Firms Can Respond

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However, it doesn’t mean CPA firms are finding it any easier to staff available positions — or hold on to the valued employees they already have in place. Our research provides some answers that can help CPA firms with hiring and retention. This is good news for employers overall. Robert Half’s research on U.S.

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How to Use Microsoft Copilot for CPA Firm Marketing

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Prompt : Develop a 3-month content calendar for our blog including topics such as [payroll pain points for seasonal companies, business expenses for realtors, etc.] Email Marketing Once Copilot is integrated with your email software, you can use it to create email templates and personalized content.

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Massachusetts CPA Firm Venning Set to Become Largest Minority Owned Firm in U.S.

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The firm merged with Agawam, Massachusetts-based accounting firm, Corbin & Tapases on September 27. The combination of the two firms may result in the “largest minority-owned CPA in the United States,” said Hannah Paige Michels, the marketing manager at Venning.

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How CPA Firms Can Profit From Payroll Services Without the Extra Work

"Offer payroll and do it yourself,” they said. Most CPA firms know that they need to offer payroll services to their clients or risk losing them to another firm that will. Read this article to find out how two firms provided payroll profitably, compliantly, and without additional workload.

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Spotlighting Women in Advisory Practice: “Create a culture where everyone is happy,” says Alicia Shaul, CPA firm entrepreneur

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She decided to skip law school and instead took a job as a bookkeeper, finding her chosen profession and going back to school to earn her CPA. That insight stuck with her, Shaul recalls, adding that it planted the seeds of her own path to success and owning her own firm. This strengthened her desire  to have her own firm.

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CPA Firm Managing Partner Weighs in on How to Rebuild the Talent Pipeline

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And it popped up at a session during the first day of the 2023 Unique CPA Conference, “Bridging the Gap,” in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, IL, on Tuesday. Pretty much overwhelmingly they said it was because you have to have an accounting degree and a CPA, which isn’t true. You don’t have to be a CPA.

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