SURVEY RESULTS: Accountants Expecting a Better Busy Season in 2012

Small but measurable advances.

Preliminary results from a survey by CPA Trendlines suggests that tax and accounting professionals are expecting a better busy season this year than last year.

Last year at about this time, practitioners rated the then-upcoming 2.35 on a five-point scale with 5 being “much better” than the year before and 1 “much worse.”

In other findings from the CPA Trendlines busy season barometer and related reports:

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

New and preliminary data rate the outlook a 2.42, a scant but perceptible improvement.