business booming, but not as much as last year

how does your firm compare?

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if the early results from the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 2024 busy season barometer: emerging issues, opportunities, and trends hold true through april, this will be a pretty good year for the vast majority of accountants and tax practitioners – not quite as good as last year, but still, pretty good.

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despite difficulties finding staff and professionals, 45 percent of respondents say they have increased their client list by at least 5 percent. (last year, it was 65 percent.)

in fact, 14 percent have seen an increase of over 10 percent. good, but not as good as last year’s 22 percent.
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busy season barometer offers clues for better business

workers in busy office

take a tip from a peer.

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the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer: emerging issues, opportunities, and trends is more than just a survey of the state of the industry at cpa firms across the nation. it also offers clues to what firms are doing to make the busy season better, easier and more profitable.

the clues are in the comments – open-ended answers where practitioners tell us what they’re doing, how they’re feeling and where they’re going.

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one of the best questions is “what are you doing differently this year?” each answer reflects an attempt to make the best of a stressful situation – the annual tax season.

here are a few quotes to think about, categorized by how well various respondents’ seasons are going this year. each is an idea that might make your year better.
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auditing standards ‘yellow book’ updated

words "time for an update" on clock face

the changes are more than just technical.

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america has a wealth of governments. they’re all over the place. municipal governments. county governments. parishes, boroughs, villages, hamlets. special purpose local governments. school districts, fire districts, tax districts. independent authorities, tribal councils and councils of governments. state governments, territorial governments and, of course, the big one in washington, district of columbia, with its thousands of branches, arms and agencies.

love them or hate them, there they are. tens of thousands of governments. and they all have one thing in common: they need to be audited.

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or, to put it another way, they need auditors.

being governments, their accounting and auditing standards are different from those of nongovernmental entities.
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firms culling clients as staffing woes persist

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others tap outsourcing, training clerical staff as solutions.

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early results from the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 2024 busy season barometer: emerging issues, opportunities, and trends are showing a painfully persistent problem with staff shortages, though it seems the hardship may have improved a bit since last year.

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this year, like last year, survey respondents are reporting staffing as the second most common concern. last year, it was reported by 47 percent, almost tied with the main concern: late or unprepared clients.

this year, uncooperative clients still rank first, at 50 percent, but staffing concerns have dropped to 37 percent.
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revenue up at 59% of accounting firms … and more good news

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technology is key for competitive advantage.

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the 2024 accounting industry report from wolters kluwer cuts through a lot of the underbrush of sentiments and anecdotal evidence about the state of the accounting business today. backed by statistical data, the report presents a some significant truths about the state of the industry.

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and the general state is good. most firms are growing, profitability is up, new services are surging, and serious practices are making efforts to improve the quality of client experience.

here are some of the most notable facts.
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