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“i’d go through cancer again before i’d go back to not having confidence.”

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accounting arc
with arpan grewal
center for accounting transformation

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when kelly mann left her public accounting job, she had no clients, no roadmap, and no guarantee of success. but what she did have was a vision—and a willingness to take risks. today, she is the ceo of auditminer, a groundbreaking software company that simplifies 401(k) audits for cpa firms across the country. 

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“i was always told to stop being a bull in a china shop,” mann recalls. “but i realized i was okay with being a bull—i just needed to leave the china shop.” that realization set her on the path to entrepreneurship. 

in 2020, mann was preparing to launch auditminer when she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. facing both a global pandemic and a personal health battle, she nearly gave up.

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pricing, fees & billing rates

accelerate growth through specialization

man holding pen touching the word "specialization" floating in air with symbols

plus tips on how to set your strategy.

by jody padar
radical pricing – by the radical cpa

specialization means having expert-level knowledge in a niche practice area. when you specialize, your services and efforts are focused on your narrow field of expertise. this helps streamline standardization and productization.

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as a result of specialization, it is easier to develop your advisory services because they all revolve around the same services and background. your conversations all take on similar qualities because the people, or the personas, you’re talking to are all in the same niche.

your specific expertise also puts you in a unique position to create kpis beneficial to both you and your clients. because you’re immersed in the industry, you’re always abreast of the hot topics and well versed in how events will impact your clients and their industry.
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politics & government

irs needs to work better with its workers

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training? inadequate. best recruitment method? who knows?

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

here’s an idea: ditch your cpa practice and go work for the irs.

if you can figure out the job application process, you’ve already proven yourself adept at bureaucracy.

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despite that preliminary qualification, you’ll have to take a pay cut of 20-30 percent, but in as little as three years, they’ll have you trained for your job.

and with a little luck, you won’t have a boss, given that a quarter of all director positions are vacant or temporarily filled.
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charts & graphs

tax refund totals up 10%

tax pros hold 44 percent of the market, one-half percentage point less than a year ago.

by beth bellor

for the first time this busy season, the irs is reporting not just refund numbers and average amounts but also the total amounts refunded. it’s good news: up 10 percent for both total and direct deposit refunds.

more: tax refunds plummet, but no worries | tax refunds up 18% early on | first tax filing reports are in
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as of feb. 21, the most recent data available, the agency had received 42.7 million individual income tax returns, down 4.2 percent from the same period in 2024. it had processed 42.4 million returns, down 3.8 percent.
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