How does your state rate?
For the nationwide year-to-year trends, see the earlier CPA Trendlines report, “Bookkeeping Rates Show Broad Advances.”
New data from Intuit’s biennial bookkeeping rates survey is showing huge disparities from region to region and city to suburb.
The highest rates, for instance, can be found for “general business consulting” in the East Coast and Atlantic states, at $138 per hour. READ MORE →
Deal creates new top 10 CPA firm; top 3 in wealth management.
Clifton Gunderson and LarsonAllen, each already among the top 20 largest firms in the U.S., are breaking into the top 10 with a merger. The new firm will be named CliftonLarsonAllen as of Jan. 2, 2012.
At that size, the new firm will vie with BDO, CBIZ and Crowe Horwath in billings.
At least five years of “crazier” to come.
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The need for leadership, succession pressures, and bench strength are driving today’s merger mania, says Carl George, the legendary chief executive of Clifton Gunderson. But smart, agile firms can still compete effectively, he says. And this may be the type of economy to do it in.
Index hits recessionary levels.
A leading gauge of confidence among finance and accounting professionals has hit its lowest level since early 2009.
But 61 percent are confident in the future of their current employer, up from 56 percent in the previous quarter.