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Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor

AdviceForTaxpreparers

by Bill Meador, CPA, JD. Accounting and CPA Puns. Short Accounting and CPA Jokes. Accounting & CPA puns. Short Accounting and CPA Jokes. Why did the auditor get hit by a car when he crossed the road? What’s an accountants favorite sport to play during busy season? Actual call to a CPA.

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Our Obsession with Hours Is Destroying the Accounting Profession

CPA Practice

By Blake Oliver, CPA, and Chris Vanover, CPA. CPAs have always been passionate about numbers, using various metrics such as revenue, profit, headcount and realization to measure success. However, this focus on numerical indicators is contributing to the decline of the CPA profession itself.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Partners Are Split on the Split; PCAOB Further Annoys Auditors; Recruiting Events Are Back! | 3.31.23

Going Concern

auditors who believe their part of the firm could end up weakened by a deal. audit, tax and advisory firm, as title sponsor in an effort to advance equity, access and opportunity for underrepresented and underrated youth in the sport of golf. John King and Frank Mahoney, senior U.S. He previously held various tax roles at KPMG.

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Accountants Are the Referees of Business, Says Guy Who Would Know

Going Concern

” To put things into perspective for the normies who may not understand that accountants’ work is critical to the entire foundation of our financial system, he likens accountants to referees, the order-keepers of sports: “We may not always like the referees, but sports is a free-for-all without them,” he said.

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Friday Footnotes: Work-Life Balance, Does It Work?; Big 4 Firms Slash Job Postings; She Doesn’t Even Go Here! | 2.16.24

Going Concern

This is according to the Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS), which surveyed 449 employers and 433 accounting and finance employees last summer and released its results last month. According to a lobbyist for the Iowa Society of Certified Public Accountants, fewer CPA firms are willing to audit government agencies.

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Listen Up, Young Accountants: Career Advice For Sticking Out Those Early Years

Going Concern

Maginnis recalls early in his career when Newt Becker, founder of the Becker CPA exam prep courses, told him that every year spent in public accounting is the equivalent of two years in private industry. It could be sports and entertainment, tech companies, life science companies.” But by bailing out too soon, you miss it.

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

Going Concern

Audit Private Equity’s Ties to Companies’ Auditors Have Never Been Closer. CBIZ Completes Acquisition of Marcum [ PR Newswire ] Concurrent with the closing of this transaction, the attest business of Marcum was acquired by CBIZ CPAs, a national independent CPA firm with which CBIZ has had an Administrative Service Agreement for over 25 years.

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