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Top 5 tips for accounting firms to find qualified workers

Accounting Insight

Trouble finding qualified staff continues to be a top concern for accounting firms of all sizes, according to the AICPA’s 2023 Top Issues Survey. Your firm obviously needs a certain number of licensed CPAs if you provide auditing services. Today’s labor market is most certainly a challenge for accounting firms.

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In ongoing accounting crunch, where to go for sales tax help?

TaxConnex

For respondents, the staffing struggle also meant curtailing business growth (19.23%), more errors in sales tax calculation (17.58%), more frustration from existing staff (21.43%) and, perhaps scariest, a growing lack of confidence in being prepared for an audit (22.53%). million accountants and auditors in the U.S. There were about 1.65

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Friday Footnotes: The PCAOB-to-Practice Pipeline and Audit Quality; Ball Extension; Tim Ryan’s Replacement | 1.12.24

Going Concern

The auditor in question was Deloitte, the behemoth Big Four accounting firm with annual revenue of $65 billion through a global network that stretches from Amsterdam to Zhengzhou. million in audit fees in 2022.) Audit Do former regulators improve the quality of audits? Tingo paid $1.6

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Professionals on the Move – Nov. 2024

CPA Practice

Aprio Expands Real Estate Practice with Strategic Hire of Industry Leader James Lockhart Aprio, a top 25 business advisory and accounting firm, is strategically expanding its real estate practice with the addition of James Lockhart as a real estate tax partner based in the firm’s New York City office.

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Public Accounting Starting Salaries Expected to Increase Nearly 4% in 2024

CPA Practice

in 2024, while audit and assurance services will see starting salaries likely go up an average of 3.8% next year, according to a CPA Practice Advisor analysis of public accounting pay data provided by specialized staffing firm Robert Half. Firms that are upfront about a role’s salary range can improve their hiring prospects.

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CPE Webcast Dec. 12 – Transforming Sales Tax Compliance to Fuel Business Growth

CPA Practice

He also co-founded Acuity Invests, which invests in accounting tech, SaaS, fintech, and crypto companies. Prior to Acuity, Kenji was CFO of an Inc 5000 tech company and worked in the audit practice at Arthur Andersen. He has served as an advisor for accounting tech companies such as Intuit, Xero, Gusto, FreshBooks, and Expensify.

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The Accounting Talent Shortage is Not New, You Guys

Going Concern

A record 68,639 students graduated with accounting degrees in 2010. Nearly 4 in 10 accounting graduates hired last year by CPA firms had master’s degrees, compared with 26 percent in 2008. By contrast, 43 percent of graduates hired had bachelor’s degrees, down from 56 percent in 2008.

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