SURVEY UPDATE: Busy Season Shifts to Hi Gear

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And so, too, the mood of the accounting profession.

 by Rick Telberg

The outlook for a better busy season is improving among tax and accounting practitioners, with 16% reporting “much better” operations in January, up from 11% in the year-ago month and continuing a string of monthly year-over-year advances in the CPA Trendlines polling.

Complete findings are published in The CPA Trendlines Practitioner’s Tax Season Performance Review and Outlook Report. (Learn more here)

Overall, practitioners are headed into the jaws of the February busy season with 57% of them reporting generally positive results. Only 19% are calling for worse and 25% forecast no change.