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Accounting Groups Call for More Competitive Pay for Government CPAs

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State and local governments are being squeezed by a shortage of accounting professionals, making it difficult at times to find staff CPAs who can prepare critical financial information or outside firms to conduct audits. Yet salaries and audit fees are often well below those offered in the private sector, the report found.

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The AICPA Gets Around to Looking Into If This Whole Private Equity Thing Requires New Independence Rules

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Two years ago, two years after the first major private equity investment in a top 20 firm kicked off a flood of similar investments in some of the largest non-Big 4 firms in the country, the AICPA formed a task force to “look into issues raised by private equity investors in accounting.”

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Decisions 2024: The Opportunities for Accounting Firms Have Never Been Greater

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The Future Of AI For Productivity In Public Practice Is Brighter Than Ever Our K2 Enterprises team continues to teach practical AI courses for public practice professionals and industry CPAs. In the coming months, my K2 organization and this column will continue to cover useful AI tools for Client Accounting Services (CAS), tax, and audit.

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

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One of the panelists, Jackie Cardello, president and managing partner of Bethesda, MD-based GRF CPAs & Advisors, said the stigma and the stereotype associated with CPAs and accountants—and the profession in general—needs to change, and that change can begin in high school. You don’t have to be a CPA.

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Why small CPA firms should care about fraud

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But what does this mean for small CPA firms who don’t perform audits? In this episode of Pulse of Practice “Should a Small Firm Care?”, Paul Miller, CPA from Business by Design , and I are joined by Brian Fox, Founder of Confirmation, part of Thomson Reuters. How public company fraud affects the small CPA firm.

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Bowers Merges in CPA Firm Kasperski Dinan & Rink

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Syracuse, NY-based accounting firm Bowers CPAs & Advisors has expanded its presence in Rochester after combining with Kasperski Dinan & Rink CPAs on Jan. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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Friday Footnotes: All Audit Reports Matter; BDO Ordered to Pay; Just How Many Firms Are Offshoring? | 11.1.24

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Audit Private Equity’s Ties to Companies’ Auditors Have Never Been Closer. accounting firms will have either sold an ownership stake or part of their business to private-equity investors, up from zero in 2020, said Allan Koltin, chief executive at advisory firm Koltin Consulting Group. That Worries Some Regulators.

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