tax guru bob jennings (cpa, ea, cfp, and rtrp) has been polling past attendees of his cpe seminars about tax season 2013.
clearly, tax professionals are still seething. “we sent our survey out and it must have pushed a button because the responses overwhelmed our servers,” says jennings, taxspeaker.com.
the results may not surprise you. but they are sobering nevertheless.
the latest update to the topline results for the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer shows additional confirmation of four key findings, beginning with the across-the-board problems of a late-starting season and buggy software.
how did your season compare? we’d love to hear. send your comments, rants raves, ideas, or questions to me here. – rick telberg
key finding #1: most practitioners, across all size firms, report a tougher 2013 than 2012. (see chart below for comparisons by size of firm.) read more →
tax and accounting professionals of all shapes and sizes, ranging in size from the soloist to the regional leader, are reporting a filing season markedly more problematic than the year before, according to the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer. the data for april, still coming in, shows majorities of firms in all class sizes reporting “somewhat worse” or “much worse” performance and results this year.
busy season barometer
the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer, now in it’s tenth year, is a real-time tracking poll of tax and accounting professionals’ sentiment, performance and results. as a reward for joining the survey panel, participants get early previews of top-line results and notifications.
in this report, we present the first wave of in-depth details, starting with a chart that shows the number of respondents reporting on busy season conditions.
those reporting a “worse” season include:
66% of solo practitioners
60% of firms with 2 to 10 professionals
70% of firms with 11 to 50 professionals
72% of firms with 50 to 100 professionals
53% of firms with more than 100 professionals
and:
we gather verbatim comments from the solo practitioners who reported a season “much worse” explaining their rating, and
we present their comments assembled into a word-cloud infographic that reveals at a glance the most oft-repeated issues and concerns.
for complete busy season coverage, click here. and stay tuned to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 as we report on new developments in the data and analysis.
with tax season 2013 finally (gratefully) at an end, the latest soundings from the field show conditions continuing to deteriorate into the final hours, according to the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer.
in this report:
practitioners’ top five problems during the season (chart)
practitioners rate tax season from “better” than last year to “worse” (chart)
reports and analysis from practitioners around the nation, including florida, illinois, michigan, maryland, and pennsylvania.
workflow at tipping point; xcm solutions prepares to meet demand mike sabbatis joins xcm solutions’ board to aid in execution of aggressive growth strategy braintree, mass. – march 25, 2013 – xcm solutions, llc, the leading provider of cloud-based workflow … continued
