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when staffing falls short, clients get culled

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revenues are taking a hit.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

who ever thought it would come to this – accounting firms reducing their clientele?

it seems to be increasingly common, and the reasons are clear. it isn’t a desire to reduce revenues. it’s a desire to keep up with the workload without burning out.

more: how accounting firms are dealing with retirement | next five years are critical for accounting firms | staffing turnover’s down, but why? | what’s your firm worth? private equity wants to know | the new pipeline: outsourcing and offshoring | is this the last year of accounting’s golden age?
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with fewer professionals entering the profession, and more of them leaving, more than half of practices are culling their less profitable or more problematic clients.

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outlook & analysis

how accounting firms are dealing with retirement

older businessman sitting at desk smiling as wall clock indicates 5 minutes to retirement

burnout is driving some increases.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

retirement’s great! long awaited, well deserved.

more: next five years are critical for accounting firms | staffing turnover’s down, but why? | what’s your firm worth? private equity wants to know | the new pipeline: outsourcing and offshoring | is this the last year of accounting’s golden age?
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but it’s not so great if you’re not the one retiring. at accounting firms, retirement often means trouble.

  • there may be no one to replace the retiree.
  • there may not be a succession plan in place.

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news

koziel to succeed melancon as aicpa ceo

mark koziel, currently president and ceo of allinial global, is returning to the aicpa as ceo in 2025, succeeding barry melancon, who retires after 30 years, the longest tenure on record. koziel joined allinial global in 2020 after 14 years … continued
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staff turnover’s down, but why?

the aftermath of the great resignation leaves many questions.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
rosenberg national survey of cpa firm statistics

as the pandemic wound down, there was a pretty big shakeup at cpa firms. almost a fifth of employees left their firm. some moved on to similar positions. some got canned. and some ditched the whole profession in a search for satisfaction elsewhere.

more: what’s your firm worth? private equity wants to know | the new pipeline: outsourcing and offshoring | is this the last year of accounting’s golden age?
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charles hylan – managing director of the growth partnership, which conducts the rosenberg national survey of cpa firm statistics – hazards a guess, based on his experience with cpa firms, that “a large number are leaving the profession altogether.” among all firms surveyed, i.e., firms with over $2 million in billings, “a whopping 75 percent of staff turnover is voluntary.”

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what’s your firm worth? private equity wants to know

businessman holding box with money flying out of it

the m&a picture has changed.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
rosenberg survey

you probably thought you’d never hear these three words together, but here they are: accounting is hot.

this isn’t to say that cpa practices have six-pack abs and saucy haircuts. they don’t. but as far as markets go, accounting firms are hot items for investors looking to snatch up profitable organizations.

more: the new pipeline: outsourcing and offshoring | is this the last year of accounting’s golden age?
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the attraction is the consequence of two years of double-digit growth – the golden age of the accounting industry. revenues jumped in 2022, and then they jumped again in 2023. and 2024 ain’t looking too bad, either.

according to the 2024 rosenberg national survey of cpa firm statistics – the 26th edition of the gold standard analysis of the industry – fee growth in 2023, excluding mergers, ranged from 3.2 percent for firms billing under $2 million, to 11.4 percent for firms with over $20 million in billings.
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are you earning what you deserve?

young woman seated at laptop counting money

plus some predictions about where the job market is headed.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

here’s a statistic you can probably sympathize with. according to new salary data, 99 percent of finance professionals report experiencing some level of burnout in the past year.

research: partners: your middle managers are getting burnout

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unless you’re in that other 1 percent, you know how it feels. and who could blame you for feeling that feeling and then looking at your paycheck?

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the new pipeline: outsourcing and offshoring

businessman's hand pointing to icons, one of which is labeled "outsourcing"

firms still are working out their options and business models.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

the 2024 rosenberg national survey of cpa firm statistics has found something that everybody knew. it has also found that there’s more of it than anybody knew.

and that there’s more coming.

more: is this the last year of accounting’s golden age?
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this swelling tsunami sweeping over the accounting industry is the use of outsourced staff, outsourced tax returns, and the ultimate in remote work, offshoring assignments and functions to foreign lands.
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politics & government

is the irs adequately tracking corporate tax evasion?

the inspector general smells something fishy.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

believe it not, there are large american corporations that establish a pseudo-presence in other countries for the sole purpose of evading taxes.

and that’s not the only trick in the corporate books.

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granted, sometimes those tricks are legitimate tax tactics. the tax code has loopholes, and that’s what they’re for.

needless to say, corporate tax strategy can get pretty complicated. there is an entire industry of lawyers, accountants and wealth management professionals dedicated to walking the fine line between evasion and due diligence in the interest of shareholders.
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outlook & analysis

the slow, painful death of the 150-hour rule

ending a 50-year mandate, now “competency” counts (again).

by rick telberg
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

after a quarter century of campaigning to get the 150-hour rule passed by all 50 states, overcoming opposition that seemed at one time as if it would rend the profession’s institutions, and after another quarter century of finding that the rule was failing by all critical measures, the aicpa and nasba are rolling out a workaround that could kill the rule.

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the organizations are offering a “competency-based” hurdle for cpa licensure that signals abject surrender.

this is the story, 50 years in the making, of (mostly) good intentions gone bad, unintended (but not unforeseen) consequences, and how rank-and-file cpas (eventually) overcame the power plays of multinational firms. read more →

outlook & analysis

is this the last year of accounting’s golden age?

hourglass breaking, sand blowing away

the authors of the rosenberg map survey have some thoughts.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
rosenberg survey of cpa firm statistics

one thing cpa firms can’t gripe about is revenue. yeah, the hours seem to be getting longer, the struggle harder, the rules more complex, and the technology continuously antiquated. but the money: it’s good.

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the 2024 rosenberg survey of cpa firm statistics—the 26th annual edition of the premier report on the state of the industry—confirms that in 2023, virtually all indicators of cpa firms’ health were good. and, generally speaking, the bigger the firm, the better they’re doing.
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