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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

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Palos Hills Accountant Indicted In $7.8M Attorney General’s Office for Northern Illinois announced on Wednesday. Both women are in their 30s, and both had been going to Flinchum for at least three years for tax preparation. million in small business loans under the CARES Act, the U.S.

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CPE Webinar September 12, 2023: Cybersecurity for the Tax Practitioner

CPA Practice

Jared Ballew, 2022-23 Chair of the ETAAC and Vice President of Government and Industry Relations at Taxwell; and Ann Campbell, CPA CIA and Drake Software Trainer will share an overview of the cyber threats that taxpayers and tax professionals face daily. Gail Perry is the editor-in-chief of CPA Practice Advisor.

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CPE Webinar July 18, 2023: Get Tax Ready! Solving Source Doc Gathering Issues

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Gail Perry is the editor-in-chief of CPA Practice Advisor. A veteran of accounting journalism, she also speaks at many accounting events, trade shows, and webinars. She has taught introductory accounting and personal finance courses, and she is a former computer applications instructor at the Indiana CPA Society.

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

Nancy McClelland, LLC

Tax preparers everywhere spent the past two months gearing up for yesterday’s “opening day” of tax season, January 29th. To say nothing of the fact that the next government shutdown deadline is scheduled for one week before business tax returns are due. Enter Congress.

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The Talent Pool Is Shrinking

RitaKeller

I received the following press release from the Illinois CPA Society. They are unveiling the findings from research they have done relating to the decline in CPA candidates. How will your firm prepare for the future? Plus, flexible work arrangements make public accounting very attractive.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Pays High Schoolers 20 Bucks an Hour; Deloitte Cyberattacked Too; IRS on ERC | 7.28.23

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INSIDE Public Accounting Releases Its Annual Rankings and Analysis of the Nation’s Largest, Fast-Growing Public Accounting Firms [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] “The labor shortage is a major driver behind the behavior of the IPA 100 firms,” says Charles Hylan, managing director at The Growth Partnership, IPA’s parent company.

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

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Birthdays A CPA Firm Celebrates a Century in Business [ The CPA Journal ] In today’s climate of accounting firm mergers, it is worth recognizing when a CPA firm has managed to remain independent and partner-owned for 100 years. million class settlement with workers who say the accounting firm mismanaged their $1.2