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The Parallel Problems of Public Accounting & Major League Baseball

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

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Pretty much overwhelmingly they said it was because you have to have an accounting degree and a CPA, which isn’t true. You don’t have to be a CPA. Firms are looking at non-traditional hires and non-CPAs. Accounting is not a well-marketed profession. But that should be the game plan.”

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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

Going Concern

The series is called Journeys of Accountancy and features accountants who, for example, work for a CPA firm specializing in the legalized cannabis industry in California, an accounting software company that serves the funeral industry, and a company that provides compliance services to the gaming industry.

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

Going Concern

Orlando pet supply store, accounting firm file for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection [ Orlando Business Journal ] The Accounting Lab Group which has offices in Lake Mary and other East Coast cities filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy March 25.

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Friday Footnotes: BDO Blows It; PwC Blazes a Trail in New Audit Fines; Using AI For Tax Research | 8.16.24

Going Concern

Those are some of the many careers available to a certified public accountant (CPA). Unfortunately, however, interest in the accounting profession is waning. CPA firm says city’s audit not ready to present [ Natchez Democrat ] More muni mess.

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Rewarding Top Performers

RitaKeller

It is true inside a CPA firm. I also have some advice for the Bettys of the CPA world. The best way to learn the game of business and expand your world of accounting knowledge is to demand that you be given more and more challenging assignments. Public accounting offers so many avenues for success.