CPA Practice

MARCH 19, 2024

Freelance talent platform Upwork has conducted a study that reveals which types of skills are most important to accounting firms and corporate accounting departments when adding new employees to their rosters this year. “For the workforce, it is absolutely essential to understand what skills are most in demand in order to stay ahead and generate value, both for organizations and themselves,” Upwork said in the study.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 25, 2024

The Internal Revenue Service has posted new information about how to handle possible processing errors when electronically filing Form 1065, "Return of Partnership Income," and ways to avoid them.

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Insightful Accountant

MARCH 11, 2024

A judge ruled the Corporate Transparency Act's ownership reporting unconstitutional for NSBA and its 60,000+ members by March 1, 2024. This may trigger similar cases nationwide, impacting BOI reporting. Practitioners need to plan their response.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 1, 2024

The lack of help means current accountants' hours and workloads can be grueling, upping the odds of mistakes and burnout.

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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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Summit CPA

MARCH 7, 2024

Anyone who registers for an IRS Preparer Tax Identification Number (usually abbreviated as PTIN) is authorized to prepare taxes for compensation. The requirements are minimal: In order to obtain a PTIN, the applicant must verify with the IRS that they are in compliance with their own taxes and pay a small yearly fee ($19.74 in 2024). While the IRS encourages non-credentialed tax preparers to increase their knowledge through continuing education, doing so is optional.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 27, 2024

Is the age of the bookkeeper coming to an end? Is the payroll specialist an endangered species? Are the days of the tax preparer who focuses on basic 1040s numbered?

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Canopy Accounting

MARCH 12, 2024

At Canopy, we’ve recently improved 24 of our accounting and tax workflow templates by adding helpful automations to save you and your firm time. These automations include sending client requests triggered by status updates, automatically updating the status of a subtask once a previous subtask is complete, and notifications being sent to assigned team members on subtasks when that subtask is set to “Ready.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 4, 2024

Investors have filed a lawsuit against an accounting firm alleging it helped a client maintain a Ponzi scheme involving cash advances that led to the loss of millions of dollars.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 5, 2024

Technical skills and a meticulous eye for detail have always been the bedrock of the accounting profession. Yet, amid the focus on balance sheets and financial analytics, there’s a vital element that’s often overlooked—Emotional Intelligence (EI). As we venture through the evolving landscape of modern business, the ability to adeptly navigate our own emotions and those of others has become indispensable for accountants looking to elevate their service beyond the numbers.

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Withum

MARCH 2, 2024

In a surprise decision Friday night, a federal district court ruled that the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) is unconstitutional, effectively placing the Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting on hold. By way of background, the CTA was enacted on January 1, 2021 as part of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act as an attempt to prevent money laundering and tax evasion by requiring new reporting for certain companies doing business in the US.

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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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Going Concern

MARCH 11, 2024

The 96th annual Academy Awards went off seemingly without a hitch last night but we’re not here to talk about that because this isn’t a movie blog and I haven’t seen Oppenheimer. We’re here to rehash what happened seven years ago because this website specializes in the beating of dead horses and reminding Big 4 accounting firms of the dumb things they’ve done over the years.

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Xero

MARCH 21, 2024

Dive into the world of franchising in this Q&A with Lime Licensing ’s CEO, Andy Cheetham, as he shares his expertise, insights, and advice for businesses looking to franchise. How can a business determine if its model is suitable for franchising? Franchising is all about replication. If your current business can create a clone of itself in another location then it’s likely that your clone could be a franchise, provided it can be profitable of course!

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Anders CPA

MARCH 25, 2024

Cash flow management is a lot like a road trip: If you want to know the answer to, ‘Are we there yet?’ you need to start with a destination in mind. In cash flow management , we call that a target, and it generally needs to be somewhere between 10-30% of annual revenue, depending on the size and type of your law practice and the length of your cash cycle.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 6, 2024

A divided Securities and Exchange Commission voted to approve a new rule that would require companies to provide climate-related disclosures to investors, but scaled back the original proposal to exclude disclosure of so-called Scope 3 emissions from their supply chains, and exempt many smaller companies.

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Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 26, 2024

By Jay Weaver, Miami Herald (via TNS). When the coronavirus threatened to turn the nation into a graveyard of failed businesses, Congress rushed through an emergency loan program: about $800 billion — roughly the size of the annual defense budget — was doled out in a matter of months to millions of companies. There were few strings attached: the U.S.

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Withum

MARCH 5, 2024

In this episode of Cryptonomix, Mark Eckerle sits down with Seth Priebatsch, President at Groma, a full-service real estate development and management firm with a blockchain twist.

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Going Concern

MARCH 7, 2024

Per The Telegraph , Big 4 firms across the pond are now “banning” applicants from using ChatGPT and its equivalents to help with applications because they’re afraid AI tools “will help them cheat the system.” The irony. Big Four accountants have warned applicants not to use AI to complete applications or online assessments during the hiring process.

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Cherry Bekaert

MARCH 18, 2024

In the latest episode of Cherry Bekaert’s Risk & Accounting Advisory podcast series, Neal Beggan , is joined by Steven Ursillo and Dan Sembler , both partners in our Information Assurance & Cybersecurity practice. During this episode they discuss the many benefits of Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 reports, such as security insights, gaining customer trust and risk management, and how those benefits bring value to a company.

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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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Anders CPA

MARCH 19, 2024

Anders is proud to be recognized as one of Accounting Today’s Top 100 Firms for the fourth year in a row. After breaking into the Top 100 Firms in 2021, Anders has moved up the list to #74 for 2024. The firm is also recognized on the Regional Leaders list, ranking third on the list of firms headquartered in the Midwest. In 2023, Anders focused on organic growth with strategic efforts around advisory services, opening a second office location in Chesterfield, MO and hiring the firm’s first Chief

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Accounting Today

MARCH 26, 2024

Taxpayers are accessing the IRS website much more this year than last to find the answers they need, with more than 410 millions visits through March 15.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 7, 2024

By Leada Gore, al.com (TNS) The IRS has a warning that expenditures for general health and wellness aren’t considered medical expenses, regardless of some advertising claims to the contrary. In a bulletin issued “amid concerns about people being misled,” the IRS said personal expenses—things like food and general wellness purchases—are not deductible or reimbursable under health flexible spending or reimbursement arrangements, health savings accounts, or medical savings accounts.

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Withum

MARCH 7, 2024

There is a lot going on with the employee retention credit (ERC) these days and it can be hard to keep up with the latest developments. From Congressional proposals to changes in IRS procedures, change is afoot and more is expected in the near future. Below is a summary of the latest thoughts on various issues that are of interest to those who have already claimed the ERC or are about to claim the ERC.

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Going Concern

MARCH 13, 2024

*Technically the partners are being forced to retire but the headline was already way too many characters It’s been more than a year since Australian Financial Review blew the PwC Australia tax scandal wide open and it’s been nothing but migraines for PwC leadership (and their cousins at other Big 4 firms also subject to relentless grilling by Aussie senators) since.

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Cherry Bekaert

MARCH 22, 2024

Succeeding in today’s business environment requires agility and rapidly adapting to change. For finance leadership and teams, this requires constantly analyzing, reforecasting, rethinking new data, and determining new approaches to drive business. No matter your industry, organizations must automate and streamline core financial management functions.

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Anders CPA

MARCH 20, 2024

St. Louis startups and their funding sources are an integral part of the city’s revitalization as they bring jobs and innovation to the region. As the startup scene struggles with post-COVID recovery, rising inflation, high interest rates and other compounding economic factors, the Anders Startup and Entrepreneurial Services team surveyed area founders and funding sources to weigh in on the impacts.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 5, 2024

An Alabama federal district court held that the Corporate Transparency Act is unconstitutional, stating it "exceeds the Constitution's limits on Congress' power.

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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

MARCH 26, 2024

By Alvin Buyinza, masslive.com (TNS) Nearly 940,000 Americans have unclaimed tax returns from 2020 and face a May 17 deadline if they want to get it back, the IRS announced on Monday. Due to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who’ve yet to file their 2020 tax returns, the IRS estimates there are more than $1 billion in unclaimed tax refunds, the agency stated in a news release.

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Withum

MARCH 30, 2024

Withum is excited to announce that on March 31, 2024, BBD LLP (BBD); a public accounting, tax and advisory firm dedicated to serving nonprofit and government organizations headquartered in Philadelphia, will join its practice with Withum. BBD’s five partners and 40 team members will be added to the Withum roster, remaining at their current Philadelphia office location at 1835 Market Street, Suite 300.

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Going Concern

MARCH 27, 2024

Is no one concerned about the brain drain happening at the lowest levels as all the grunt work that used to train newbies gets sent overseas? Are we quickly headed toward a world where entire teams from manager on down are in another country? And does this mean clients will get a break on fees since the talent is so much cheaper? LOL to that last one.

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Insightful Accountant

MARCH 21, 2024

Contributing Author Katie Thomas, CPA shows you how you can not only make it through "the busy season' by help future-proof your firm by adopting AI and proactive strategies.

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