how accountants are coping with covid-19

coping with the covid crisis- robert jones (left), and stephen backman
coping with the covid crisis: robert jones (left), and stephen backman. more crisis management strategies: join the survey. get the answers.

new methods, new mindsets.

the busy season barometer
coronavirus crisis management strategies:

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the coronavirus sure did hit quick. it seems like it’s been here since forever, but it didn’t really strike until halfway through the busy season. there were ominous clouds on the horizon in january, but early respondents to the 2020 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer were generally expressing optimism.

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then things went downhill fast. but despite the pressures of the tax season, cpas have been equally fast at adjusting to the new world. they really had little choice. they could innovate. they could close up shop. or they could get really, really sick.

innovation seems to be the most popular choice. read more →

fraud: it’s where the money is

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cpa firms have opportunities here. bonus: infographics.

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covid-19 isn’t the only pandemic ravaging the world. there’s a financial virus going around, too.

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it’s called fraud – maybe not contagious, but it pops up everywhere. on average, an estimated 5 percent of the world’s revenue is lost to fraud each year, a median loss of $125,000, an average loss of $1,509,000.

the prevalence and seriousness of fraud is both opportunity and obligation for cpa practices, not to mention internal audit departments.

according to the 2020 global study on occupational fraud and abuse, just issued by the association of certified fraud examiners, external audits were the source of detection in only 4 percent of 2,504 organizations analyzed in 125 countries. internal audits accounted for 15 percent of detection, and internal controls seem almost not worthwhile, finding only 2 percent of cases of known fraud.

despite increasingly sophisticated fraud detection techniques, tips are still by far the most common way fraud is discovered, responsible for 43 percent of detected cases. read more →

what cannabis clients should look for in an accountant

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harry shure, ea

beware of pricing by phone.

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the production and distribution of cannabis is the newest and most variegated industry in america. some would even say it’s one of the toughest industries in america in which to do business.

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it’s illegal everywhere yet legal in some places, but not legal the same way in all places. the federal government considers it a schedule 1 narcotic right up there with heroin and lsd, yet the internal revenue service is perfectly willing to collect taxes on companies that handle the product.
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covid-19 brings out the best in accountants

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salim omar

we’re there when clients need us most.

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it’s been a long and tough week for accountants… one that has shown just how selfless and caring they are.

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during the busiest time of the year, accountants across the country stopped performing the cash-generating tax work they were deeply entrenched in. instead, they channeled their energy and effort to help their small business owner clients to get through a crisis that has been upsetting and gut-wrenching.

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survey: confronting coronavirus chaos

preparing for the new paradigm of economic and medical realities.

today's commentators (clockwise from top left): martin, zacarias, finning, simms, bowers, collins
today’s commentators (clockwise from top left): martin, zacarias, finning, simms, bowers, collins

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cpas are hunkering down for a quadruple-whammy as the covid-19 pandemic slams society and the economy. information is tenuous and changing.

see all 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 special coronavirus coverage

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no one knows for sure what’s going to happen, but in the tax & accounting industry, four things are pretty certain:

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geared up for exponential growth at mowery & schoenfeld cpas

a conversation with gale crosley, growth consultant.

the principles behind the leaps and bounds of mowery & schoenfeld

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when jeffrey l. mowery and keith a. schoenfeld decided to bail out of the big firms and start their own, they were just a couple of cpas with a couple of folding tables and a dream.

that was then. this is now. after a series of astonishing leaps and bounds, they have raised their revenues from $3.5 million in 2008 to over $17 million today. and they plan to double that in five years.

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the scourge of shoddy tax preparers

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are you a shoddy tax preparer? we doubt it.

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pro membership in 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 demonstrates a certain commitment to professionalism – an understanding that tax preparation isn’t just a means of making money. it’s a responsibility and an obligation to do the job well.
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tax season turns ugly under coronavirus

卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer shows a marked decline in practitioners reporting a “better” year and increases in “worse.”

early optimism turns to fear and dismay as the covid-19 crisis spreads.

busy season barometer:
how does this year’s busy season compare to last year’s?
betterworse, or about the same?

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whether the covid-19 panic is much ado about nothing or not enough being done about something, america’s tax and accounting practitioners are already seeing their early-season optimism shift into a mid-season nosedive.

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the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 2020 busy season barometer has been fielding responses since early january. and, for a while, things looked good. until the end of february, early respondents generally saw their season moving along swimmingly, the economy booming, clients doing well, families hunky-dory. this year was going to be so much better than last year.

that was then. this is now. read more →

lessons from the trenches of tax season

the points not taught in college.

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the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer:
what’s different this year?
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卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间’ annual busy season barometer is always a useful instrument for peeking into other professionals’ tax prep practices. among the data that can mined from survey results:

  • how other practitioners are doing this season
  • how this season compares with last year’s
  • what other practitioners are doing differently this year
  • what practitioners have learned since last year
  • how others feel business and the economy will go – for the nation, for their firms, for their families
  • how practitioners rate their own firms – and why

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what tax preparers have learned since last year is always especially interesting. the comments of professionals in the trenches are a list of all the lessons not taught in college. here are a few of them…
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coronavirus rattles tax season

can you turn a crisis into an opportunity?

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benchmarks, trends & analysis

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coronavirus—covid-19—is coming. don’t imagine it won’t reach your community. it will. and even if you manage to keep it out of your office, and even if its lethality is less than the flu, just the threat of covid-19 is already impacting many tax and accounting firms.

how accountants are preparing for the worst:

  • do you have the portals, web-based apps, and cloud accounts necessary for staff to work from home? have you tested them? maybe you should have an everybody-works-from-home-day drill.
  • do you have policies and procedures in place for home-based work?
  • do individual staff have plans for caring for their family without disrupting work?
  • have you prepared clients for the possibility of electronic delivery of data and documentation? do they understand what to do?
  • are you ready to request filing extensions due to staff or client illness or local quarantine?
  • have you established sanitation procedures for your office?
  • do you have a vision of the worst-case scenario? this could include a) long-term quarantines of your office, other businesses, and all clients, b) widespread illness and absence of staff, c) general economic downturn, d) interruptions in cash flow, e) slower than usual responses from the irs, and f) well…what else can go wrong?

the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer has always asked a variety of poignant questions about everything from the status of firms to the state of the economy. this is the first year, however, that it includes a question about disease. read more →

the irs needs more to get more

man with net chasing winged moneytighter enforcement leads to more service needs.

the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer:
today’s bonus question:
are you ready for covid-19 conditions?

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between 2010 and 2019, the budget of the internal revenue service was cut by 20.4 percent, after adjusting for inflation. the situation has been severely aggravated by legislative changes that demand more work from the irs even as it has less to work with.

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over the past decade, the irs has had to spend

  • more than $2.6 billion to implement the affordable care act
  • more than $500 million to implement the foreign account tax compliance act
  • more than $600 million to implement the tax cuts & jobs act

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