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The Parallel Problems of Public Accounting & Major League Baseball

CPA Practice

The season and games are longer today, but beyond that, not much else has changed in more than 120 years of professional baseball. After reading former MLB manager Joe Maddon’s recent book, The Book of Joe – cowritten with Tom Verducci –it struck me: The plight of the public accounting industry is not unlike that of Major League Baseball.

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BDO USA Calls Its New ESOP ‘a Game-Changer’ for the Profession

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the sixth-largest public accounting firm in the U.S., said on Monday that it is establishing an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)—which would allow its more than 10,000 professionals to buy a shared stake in the CPA firm—that is expected to become effective later this month. BDO USA P.A.,

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The Best Tech for Accounting Firms: The 2024 Tax and Accounting Innovation Awards Announced!

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Since the pandemic, firms have broadly accepted remote and hybrid workforces, and the technologies supporting these functions have seen significant advancement, increasing productivity, while giving staff enhanced work-life balance. Instead also provides an all-in-one platform for accounting firms called Instead Pro.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Completes Its Punishment; Hybrid Work Should Stay in 2025; Deloitte Clutters Up the Dark Web | 1.3.25

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PR Newswire ] Aprio, the 25th largest business advisory and accounting firm in the U.S., announces the strategic acquisitions of two leading accounting firms, KRD, Ltd. Larger firms are more likely to do it, but many times they are combining why they exist as a firm with what they do and / or how they do it.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Feds Raid PwC; Big 4 Wants to Be Like Grant Thornton!? | 11.4.24

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Given the demands CPAs face — often, they serve on understaffed teams due to a shortage of accounting talent, while also needing to obtain continuing professional education credits in order to maintain their certified public accounting licenses — some experts were not surprised to hear about the multi-tasking practice. “If

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KPMG’s New Metaverse Space is Like the First-Person Shooters You Played in 1999 But Worse

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14 or 15 years ago I trolled Bill Sheridan of the Maryland Association of CPAs on Twitter about uncovering a weapons cache they’d stashed on CPA Island, a then-revolutionary virtual space in the game Second Life MACPA had set up for…accounting things. Back in 2008 CPA Island was the first (only?

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Friday Footnotes: Pokemon But Make It Tax; IRS Employees Get Their Jobs Back; PwC Severs Ties in Africa; | 4.4.25

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Firm Watch Frazier & Deeter Announces Strategic Growth Investment from General Atlantic [ General Atlantic ] A literal who’s who of accounting firm private equity deals. Orlando pet supply store, accounting firm file for Ch. As in “literally who?”

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