growth slowdown: tax & accounting hiring rates hit headwinds

women leaving payroll agencies in huge numbers.

by beth bellor
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growth in the tax & accounting sector continues, but at a snail’s pace, with figures like 0.3 percent dotting the plus side.

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in this report, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 highlights:

  • current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, payroll, tax and cpa segments of the industry.
  • average hourly wages for key segments
  • typical hours worked per week
  • trends concerning women in the accounting workforce

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snapstat: cpa exam rankings from utah to baruch

silhouette of graduates throwing caps into airnew stats on the cpa exam.

there must be something special in the water accounting students drink in utah and in new york. or so, some new statistics might suggest.

performance metrics indicate 95,654 candidates took the exam in 2017, of which 71,199 were new candidates, with 25,834 candidates passing their fourth section of the test.

in a new report,  the national association of state boards of accountancy reveals the jurisdictions with the highest pass rates and the universities with the most candidates sitting for a first-time section.

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misconceptions and truths about remote work

“our team communicates face to face with one another as well as with our clients all day.”

by jody grunden
building the virtual cfo firm in the cloud

my partner and i run a fully distributed cpa firm. yes, you read it correctly.

summit cpa group is a cpa firm with over 40 full-time professionals, mostly cpas, with the mission statement, “changing the way people think about accounting.”

more grunden: how summit cpa group is pioneering virtual cfo services

as i mentioned, the firm is 100 percent distributed, meaning that our team works entirely from home. moreover, our team works 100 percent virtually with our clients. the two primary services that we offer are 401k audits and virtual cfo services.

i recently asked a few members of our team, “what do people say when you tell them that you work for a remote or distributed accounting firm?” their responses were very interesting. read more →

the role of finance in adaptive and interactive learning


are you using everyone to their full potential?

by jennifer templeman
jumpstart

portrait of jennifer templeman
templeman

i believe in the power of creativity, in innovative thinking, and of play as a conduit to bring forth new ideas. and yes, and i’m a cfo who leads a team of finance professionals who focus on compliance, adherence to regulations, and perfecting the process of predicting and ensuring an outcome based on historic performance and data.

despite how at odds these two confessions may seem, they work together in a way that supports my belief that finance is a department designed to lead the culture in an organization.

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