Going Concern

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“The number-one trend is that the candidate is in complete control…because the unemployment rate is lower in accounting and finance than it’s ever been.” That’s a quote from a Robert Half recruiter in the Talent Retention in the U.S. Accounting and Finance Profession study released a few days ago, a collab between IMA and Robert Half (and about two dozen research partners, mostly state societies).

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Accounting Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Internal Revenue Service plans to run a limited pilot test of its free online tax system in 13 states next tax season, but it will only support certain tax credits.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 24, 2023

On your mark, get set, go! The 2024 preparer tax identification number (PTIN) renewal period for the nation’s nearly 800,000 active federal tax return preparers is now underway. All current PTINs expire on Dec. 31, 2023. Anyone paid to prepare or help prepare any federal return or claim for refund must have a valid PTIN from the IRS, which they must use as the identifying number on any returns prepared.

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Insightful Accountant

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Breadnbeyond's Andre Oentoro's breaks down the internal communication tools that can help you and your accounting team stay on top of things without burning yourself out.

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Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Accounting Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Young accounting and finance professionals have been seeing the highest turnover over the past two years and are most likely to leave their current jobs over the next year, according to a new report.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 27, 2023

By Allison Arieff, MIT Technology Review (TNS) His official title is vice president of regulated reporting solutions. But really, Billy Scherba, CPA, is a carbon accountant. At Persefoni, a platform for climate management, Scherba works with companies to measure, manage, and disclose their contributions to climate change. Billy Scherba Carbon accountants help companies understand what data matters to their carbon footprint, how to collect that data in a consistent manner, and how to use it to ca

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Ed. note: A reader sent in this thought-provoking essay on their experience as a CPA. In it the author covers their introduction to accounting, the impact the pandemic had on their goals, and the all too familiar feeling of watching your peers make buckets of money in other careers while you grind away in public. If you take nothing else from it, read this quote: “I hope that individuals can work to widen the pipeline to the point that anyone who has ever even THOUGHT about pursuing the CP

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Insightful Accountant

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Everything comes down to marketing. Balanced Awakenings' Dr. Hannah Yang provides some insights practice owners can use to help leverage their market strategies and build momentum.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Starting salaries for roles in tax services are projected to increase an average of 3.6% in 2024, while audit and assurance services will see starting salaries likely go up an average of 3.8% next year, according to a CPA Practice Advisor analysis of public accounting pay data provided by specialized staffing firm Robert Half. Robert Half’s salary guide for 2024 was released on Monday, featuring starting salary projections for a plethora of roles in accounting and finance.

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Withum

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The IRS announced a processing moratorium on employee retention credit (ERC) claims on September 14, 2023. As part of that press release, the IRS announced that it was planning to issue two different settlement initiatives in the coming weeks/months. The first is a settlement program for taxpayers whose ERC claims have already been processed and paid, and the taxpayers deposited the check(s).

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Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

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Cherry Bekaert

OCTOBER 10, 2023

On September 15, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed changes to Form 6765, Credit for Increasing Research Activities, and requested feedback, which is due by October 31, 2023. The proposed updates to Form 6765 require information like that which is required when submitting amended returns. See the Chief Counsel Memorandum issued September 17, 2021.

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Accounting Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Internal Revenue Service is giving employers a way to rescind inaccurate claims for the Employee Retention Credit if they've fallen victim to a scam at the hands of so-called "ERC mills.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Staffing authority Robert Half has released its much-anticipated 2024 Salary Guide and just like years past, the guide is packed with intel not only on finance and accounting but the greater job market that we really don’t care about. We’ll be deconstructing various aspects of the guide over the next few weeks, for now we’re taking a look at basic public accounting salaries and service lines.

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Insightful Accountant

OCTOBER 22, 2023

As part of security enhancements being implemented between mid-October and the end of November 2023, Chase Bank will require all QBO and QuickBooks Desktop users to reconnect their bank connections.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The IRS said on Monday that it will allow electronic signatures to be used on certain tax forms “indefinitely until more robust technical solutions are deployed.” In addition, the agency extended until Oct. 31, 2025, the ability to use encrypted email when working directly with IRS employees to clear up tax-related issues or concerns. During the COVID-19 pandemic the IRS provided temporary relief allowing taxpayers to use digital or e-signatures on specified paper forms and filings that would or

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Withum

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The IRS announced on September 14, 2023 a processing moratorium on new employee retention credit (ERC) claims. This means that it will not process any newly filed ERC claims until it works through its backlog of more than 600,000 claims, which it estimates will not occur until next year. The moratorium does not mean that the IRS is shutting down the ERC program because the IRS does not have the power to do that; only Congress and the President can do that.

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Cherry Bekaert

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Accounting , fondly known as the ‘language of business,’ tells the story of how a business is performing. It is one of the oldest-known professions dating as far back as 3500 BC, when the ancient Sumerians charged royal scribes with performing record-keeping duties. (1) Fast-forward to present day and the fundamental concepts performed by modern bookkeepers and accountants remain, but functionality and performance look vastly different in the age of all things digital.

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Accounting Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The National Association of Enrolled Agents is asking the Internal Revenue Service to resume sending reminder notices immediately to non-filers and those with balances due of more than $10,000.

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Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As you may already know the 2023 AICPA Trends report is out , here’s our earlier write-up on how many accounting degrees were completed for the 2021-22 period covered in the new report (saving you a click: it’s 65,035). Today we’re going to look at CPA exam candidate numbers. In a vacuum the 2022 numbers aren’t terrible — 30,251 new CPA candidates, 67,336 unique CPA candidates, and 18,847 CPA candidates who passed their 4th section that year.

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Anders CPA

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Startups saw a surge in seed round funding in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout 2021 and 2022, but accessing Series A funding rounds has proven more difficult than ever. Investor priorities have shifted and placed a new focus on profitability rather than growth. Tax partner and leader of the firm’s startup practice Dave Finklang, CPA/CGMA, MBA , examined the phenomenon in his recent article for the St.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 2, 2023

By Dave Charest. Small businesses (SMBs) are a busy bunch. On any given day, they might be fulfilling orders, engaging with customers in-person, managing staff, doing their books — plus dozens of other tasks. Most would relish an opportunity to gain back an extra hour, or save some extra money. Luckily, those goals (and others) are attainable thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) and marketing automation.

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Withum

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Capital accounts track the net equity owned by each partner in a partnership and typically include such information as initial and subsequent capital contributions, each partner’s distributive share of the profits and losses, and all distributions. Capital Accounts Beginning in tax year 2020, the IRS required partnerships to report their capital accounts on Schedule K-1, Item L, partners’ capital account analysis using the tax basis.

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Cherry Bekaert

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the latest episode of our Risk & Accounting Advisory podcast, Neal Beggan , Risk Advisory Leader, and key leaders from Cherry Bekaert’s Risk Advisory SOX practice, Gareth Montague-Smith and Peyton Black , discuss the concept of SOX “Lite,” a controls diagnostic service for smaller or private companies that can help prepare companies to go public, help remediate material weaknesses or significant deficiencies, provide efficiencies for companies facing difficult audits and more.

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Accounting Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A majority of chief audit executives and information technology audit leaders consider cybersecurity to be a top risk over the next year, but they're less concerned about artificial intelligence.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Fun number of the day: 95%. That’s the percentage of hiring managers in finance and accounting having trouble finding skilled talent according to recent Robert Half research. The figures come from a survey of hiring managers and employees from small (20-249 employees), midsize (250-499 employees) and large (500-plus employees) private, publicly listed and public sector organizations.

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Insightful Accountant

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Join Liz Scott on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 2 PM Eastern for the latest and greatest news about the QuickBooks Online product line-up. You won't want to miss it.

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Speaker: Mark Stovel

When it comes to automating, many firms focus on finding the latest tech, believing that efficiency is something achieved through new tools. Yet true efficiency is achieved by delivering real value to clients, not merely by upgraded systems. Without a clear approach, no level of automation can overcome the complexities of serving every client’s needs.

CPA Practice

OCTOBER 4, 2023

New research from Avalara , a provider of tax compliance automation software for businesses of all sizes, has found that 84% of CFOs surveyed in the United States (U.S.) and United Kingdom (U.K.) face a significant talent shortage within their accounting and finance teams. The problem is more severe in the UK, with nearly all (92%) surveyed CFOs in the country struggling to recruit their needed finance talent compared to three-quarters (76%) of CFOs surveyed in the U.S.

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Withum

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Once upon a time, property insurance renewals were an annual formality. They often consisted of a brief conversation, a review of a property listing, and a moderate 2%-4% increase in valuation to account for inflation. These valuations and renewals have instead become increasingly consequential today. A property insurance appraisal of building and equipment assets performed by an experienced, independent third party can be key in this preparation.

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Anders CPA

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Anders is proud to announce that Lesley Sanchez, CPA , Audit and Assurance partner, has been named a 2023 MOCPA Woman to Watch. The Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants (MOCPA) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) have partnered to recognize and honor outstanding women in the accounting profession through the Women to Watch Awards since 2006.

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Accounting Today

OCTOBER 30, 2023

CliftonLarsonAllen has been building its international network since starting it last year in the U.K. and Ireland, with further expansion plans to other parts of the world as it begins to roll out artificial intelligence technology that it's calling CLA GPT.

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