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The Federal Data Transparency Act and Your Local Government Agency

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It is another step in digitizing data coming on top of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) of 2006, the Data. The post The Federal Data Transparency Act and Your Local Government Agency appeared first on LSL CPAs.

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Interesting Niches under a COVID Cloud

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Accounting for Public Relations and Online Marketing Agencies. Accounting for Film Production. Accounting for Hedge Funds. Accounting for Cannabis (as more states change legislation). Accounting for Defense Contracting (federal spending on defense filtering down to smaller contractors).

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Attention, Soon-to-be-Accountants: Governments Need You

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Clearly the career track for CPAs in the corporate world offers more glamorous and lucrative opportunities, and the sophistication and competitive nature of business finance often presents more challenges to maximize profitability that in turn yield performance opportunities for ambitious youngsters. Or is something else going on?