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Understanding Employees’ Preferences: The Key to CPA Firms Attracting Top Talent in 2025

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The field of public accounting is undergoing significant change, from rapid advancements in technology to evolving client expectations, including increasing demand for strategic advisory services. However, in 2025, many CPA firms will be dealing with a challenge that is far from new: attracting skilled talent. By Steve Saah.

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Accounting Groups Call for More Competitive Pay for Government CPAs

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We have a talent shortage in accounting that affects business as a whole, and many of the pipeline initiatives the profession is putting in place will help the public sector as well,” said Susan Coffey, CPA, CGMA, the AICPA’s CEO of public accounting. “We

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PCAOB Gives Chinese Audit Firm the Boot Over Rules Violations

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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) revoked the registration of a Chinese audit firm on Nov. First, on multiple occasions, the accounting firm failed to timely report the participants in its issuer audits on PCAOB Form AP, in violation of PCAOB Rule 3211, Auditor Reporting of Certain Audit Participants.

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UHY Receives Private Equity Funding From Summit Partners

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million during its most recent fiscal year, according to INSIDE Public Accounting. The two firms operate as separate legal entities in an alternative practice structure: UHY LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that performs attest services, while UHY Advisors provides tax and business consulting services through subsidiary entities.

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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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Talent Using podcasting to attract accounting talent [ Journal of Accountancy ] Two Boise State University accounting professors created a podcast series to attract new talent by taking students on professional journeys. Actually if you’re in tax you should have been thinking about this in October but that’s OK.

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Big 4 Firms Fight Against Metrics That Would Reveal the Workloads Behind the Curtain

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Average number of years worked at a public accounting firm (whether or not PCAOB-registered) by senior professionals across the firm and on the engagement. Further compounding this risk is the perception that reporting deadlines are seemingly fixed, leaving some auditors wishing they had more time to conduct a better audit.

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So How Did Your 2024 Predictions For the Accounting Profession Work Out?

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AICPA creating more barriers to entry; not for the people, poor CPA exam procedures Pay gaps at intermediate experience levels. As well as hurting CPA culture in process. Add on a CPA cert that takes a year to study for and obtain. Skills gaps caused by pandemic, technology (AI included) and hybrid work environment.

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