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CPE Webcast Apr. 2, 2024: The Future of Media & Entertainment: Leveraging Data and Finance
CPE Webcast Mar. 29, 2024: Using Tax Advisory Services to Create Capacity
Retail Industry is Largest Private Employer Segment in U.S.
Deloitte Revamps Structure to Slash Costs in Tough Market
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Randy Johnston
Webinars and CPE….
CPE Webcast Apr. 2, 2024: The Future of Media & Entertainment: Leveraging Data and Finance
CPE Webcast Mar. 29, 2024: Using Tax Advisory Services to Create Capacity
Events….
Accounting
Xerocon 2024 Nashville: Aug. 14-15, 2024
The event will be hosted at the Music City Center, allowing Xero’s community of accountants and bookkeepers from across the U.S., Canada and beyond the chance to connect, as well as options for earning CPE credit.
Accounting
RightNOW Conference 2024
Top influencer keynotes, transformative tech insights and AI innovators converge to elevate the accounting profession at RightNOW 2024. May 14-16, 2024 | Austin, TX.
Tax Law: These TCJA Provisions Will Expire Soon
The nation’s lawmakers may allow these provisions to expire as written into the TCJA, extend them indefinitely, for a period of time or even permanently, or otherwise modify them.
Voting Opens for 2024 Readers’ Choice Awards
The CPA Practice Advisor Readers’ Choice Awards give readers the opportunity to spotlight the technologies they most rely on and trust to manage their firms.
Small Business
Realtors Assn. to Pay $418 Million in Lawsuit Over Commission Fees, Marking Major Change to Homebuying and Selling
The agreement is expected to change how homes are bought and sold by removing the assumption that buyers’ and sellers’ agents will split a 5%-6% commission on home sales.
CPE Webcast Apr. 2, 2024: The Future of Media & Entertainment: Leveraging Data and Finance
To thrive in this new normal, M&E companies must strike a delicate balance between advertisement revenue and subscription models.
Firm Management
CPE Webcast Mar. 29, 2024: Using Tax Advisory Services to Create Capacity
Learn how to separate compliance and advisory services, and get paid for your expertise delivering higher value tax advisory
services.
Small Business
Retail Industry is Largest Private Employer Segment in U.S.
he retail industry’s total labor income contribution was approximately $3 trillion, or 20% of total national labor income in 2022.
Firm Management
Deloitte Revamps Structure to Slash Costs in Tough Market
The move will see the Big Four firm reorganize its main business units down to four arms from five, the Financial Times reported.
Firm Management
Personalized Client Surveys Can Create Stronger Relationships
With tax season nearly over, it’s a great opportunity to understand more about your client’s experience. A client satisfaction survey can help you do that.
Taxes
Tax Law: These TCJA Provisions Will Expire Soon
The nation’s lawmakers may allow these provisions to expire as written into the TCJA, extend them indefinitely, for a period of time or even permanently, or otherwise modify them.
Payroll Taxes
New Washington State Payroll Tax Targets Long-Term Care Expenses
Washington is the first state in the U.S. to use payroll deductions to help fund long-term care. Will other states, like California, follow?
ESG
ESG Goals Often Tied to Share-Based Employee Compensation
Of companies that reported that they apply ESG targets, 84% said that they apply them to the management board. These targets set the strategic direction of the company for its board members.
Payroll
Labor Union Strike Activity Increased 280% in 2023
More than 458,000 workers were involved in major strikes in 2023, according to an EPI analysis of data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Payroll
Why Poor Job Interviews Hurt Both Employers and Job Seekers
An interviewer who isn’t aware of their own biases can draw the wrong conclusions about a job candidate or even get conned.
Firm Management
JHM Merges in CPA Firm Harting, Bishop & Arrendale
The Chattanooga-based top 500 CPA firm is expanding its presence in eastern Tennessee by combining with HBA.
Accounting
AICPA Accounting Scholars Leadership Workshop Aims to Help Expand Diverse Talent Pipeline
The goal of the workshop is to help balance representation in the accounting profession by inspiring, motivating and supporting future generations of talent from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
Accounting
Quadient Partner Program Extends to CCM and Financial Automation Solutions for Wider Customer Engagement
he new program brings more value to partners while expanding the reach of Quadient’s cloud solutions’ rich features and functions to more customers.
Taxes
Bloomberg Tax Launches Tax Workpapers to Automate Process
Bloomberg Tax & Accounting has launched Bloomberg Tax Workpapers, which streamlines the tax workpapers process with a combination of data prep, spreadsheets, integrated tax guidance, and controls
Taxes
Is President Biden On the Right Track With His Billionaire and Business Tax Increase Plans?
The president recently introduced several tax proposals targeting big businesses and the wealthiest Americans.
Taxes
IRS Offers Special Resources Pages in 21 Languages
The agency’s multilingual efforts are a part of its Strategic Operating Plan, which has received additional funding since the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Firm Management
Grant Thornton Is the Latest U.S. Firm to Get Into Bed With Private Equity
The seventh-largest accounting firm in the U.S. said it will receive “a significant growth investment” from New Mountain Capital.
Artificial Intelligence
Deloitte Consulting CEO Says Workers Are Not as Afraid of AI as You Might Think
Dan Helfrich discusses worker sentiment around AI, worker surveillance, and how we can all adapt in the age of AI.
Taxes
IRS Says March 22 is Deadline to Resolve Questionable ERC Claims
The Internal Revenue Service has renewed its message for businesses to review the Employee Retention Credit guidelines to avoid future compliance action for improper claims.
Firm Management
“Blueprints for Business” – Digital Event Aims to Help Firms in 2024
Get ready to enhance practice management, expand networks, and elevate professional capabilities with Blueprints for Business.
Accounting
Microsoft 365 Plans and Options for Firms – The Accounting Technology Lab Podcast – Mar. 2024
Hosts Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley, CPA, talk about the most productive and cost-efficient ways to use Microsoft 365 in public accounting firms. March 2024.
Accounting
Xerocon 2024 Nashville: Aug. 14-15, 2024
The event will be hosted at the Music City Center, allowing Xero’s community of accountants and bookkeepers from across the U.S., Canada and beyond the chance to connect, as well as options for earning CPE credit.
Taxes
Money Mule Networks Are on IRS Criminal Investigation’s Radar
Money mules are people who, at someone else’s direction, receive and move money obtained from victims of fraud.
Accounting
Oracle Adds Generative AI Capabilities to Oracle Fusion Cloud Suite
The latest AI additions include new generative AI capabilities embedded in existing business workflows across finance, supply chain, HR, sales, marketing, and service.
Small Business
February Retail Sales Saw Rebound
The Census Bureau said overall retail sales in February were up 0.6% seasonally adjusted from January and up 1.5% unadjusted year over year.
Accounting
AuditBoard and KPMG Partner for Risk Management
Organizations will be able to leverage the combined power of AuditBoard’s award-winning connected risk platform and KPMG’s deep expertise to elevate audit, risk, IT security, and ESG programs…
Payroll
Spending on Easter Forecast to Top $22 Billion
They plan to spend an average of $177.06 per person, the third highest per-person spend in the survey’s history, after $192.01 last year and $179.70 in 2021.
IRS
Ex-IRS Commissioner Joins Tax Law Firm Chamberlain Hrdlicka
Charles Rettig, who served as IRS chief from 2018 to 2022, has joined the law firm’s tax controversy and litigation practice.
Technology
How Accountants Can Help Clients Navigate the New World of E-Invoicing
A growing list of governments are mandating that businesses utilize e-invoicing in their billing processes. For your clients large and small doing business in other global regions, education and action around e-invoicing is required.
Payroll
10 U.S. Cities With the Largest Gender Pay Gaps
Cities in Texas and California have some of the country’s largest pay gaps between men and women, a new report found.
Taxes
Louisiana Doctor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Tax Evasion
Dr. Melissa Rose Barrett, of Baton Rouge, owed the IRS approximately $1.6 million in income taxes.