that’s the only filing statistic on the positive side, though. four fewer reporting days than at the same time last year has most markers down around 10 percent. read more →
according to new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research, the number of accounting and finance jobs available now tops 200,000. where they geographically vary by position. read more →
tax and accounting industry hits 1 million workers, capping more than 25 years of sometimes volatile expansion. shown: workforce in thousands, monthly, 1990-2016.
it’s still a great time to be an accountant, according to new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research. but watch the long-term trends carefully. all the gains are not always what they seem at first.
year over year, cpa firm staffs are growing by 4.7 percent while payroll overall is increasing at a 4.6 percent rate. the number of tax preparation employees is falling, however, 12.5 percent for the latest month, but up 3.2 percent for the year. women are making some large year-over-year gains as well – 4.8 percent at cpa firms and 12 percent at payroll services.
four fewer reporting days in 2017 skewed results at first, but statistics for the week ending feb. 10 show a difference in returns filed of around 17 percent, about half the 33 percent decline that led off the season. read more →
[click for larger image]four days fewer in 2017 still skewing statistics.
the irs continues to churn back tax returns nearly as quickly as it receives them, while the percentage that were self-prepared is tracking higher than the same point last year.
with 20.18 million returns received as of feb. 3, the latest data available, the agency had processed 19.97 million or 98.9 percent of them. read more →
of course, since it comes from the irs, it also has its own set of footnotes and qualifiers. for one, even though we’re comparing the week ending jan. 27, 2017, with the week ending jan. 29, 2016, the 2016 figure included four more days of tax return processing – although when comparing identical numbers of days, 2017 marks an increase. for another, the new law requiring a hold on refunds involving the earned income tax credit and additional child tax credit until feb. 15 is skewing early season refund numbers and dollar amounts, because many taxpayers claiming these credits are early filers. read more →
tax season has yet to start and already tempers are flaring in the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 comments section as practitioners debate requiring staffers to work on saturdays during busy season.
in “how to make mandatory saturdays a thing of the past,” 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 contributor jennifer wilson says the “cool firms” are eliminating the age-old practice nd replacing it with flex-time, work-at-home, and results-oriented strategies. still, she says, “i literally hear a gasp of surprise because it challenges one of the most fundamental elements of public accounting – tracking, measuring and valuing time.”
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