A movie starring a mathematics savant with more affinity for numbers than people (perhaps you know someone like this).
But wait, it gets better. He makes his living as a forensic accountant for dangerous criminal organizations. And he uses a small-town CPA office as a cover!
AccountingToday cites CPA Trendlines CEO and contributors as “visionaries shaping the profession.”
Rick Telberg and two dozen more luminaries from CPA Trendlines have been named among “The top 100 Most Influential People” by AccountingToday, the tax and accounting profession’s leading news platform.
Telberg
“Since his days as head of AccountingToday,” according to the editors, “Telberg has made a practice of introducing new voices, and he’s continuing that now as a one-man publishing house for a host of people with important things to tell the profession — to say nothing of the valuable insights he unearths through his research projects.”
“It is the new breed of CPA firm that is producing outsized profits for its owners with strategic vision, exceptional talent, and fanatical client service,” Telberg tells AccountingToday about the profession’s most exciting prospects. “Mostly they are flying under the radar, driven by a single savvy owner or a small group of tightly knit partners.”
While the rest of the profession is focusing on tax services, the largest firms are expanding capabilities in accounting, financial reporting, practice management, and new technologies, according to new results from a CPA Trendlines survey conducted in conjunction with the Ohio Society of CPAs and consultant Michael Ramos.
The profession’s large firms also have large problems – problems that can’t be solved by CPE alone, according to remarks by survey respondents. Problems like survival.
The survey results show in detail where large firms are investing their valuable time and resources, and how the best of them manage their training budgets to align with strategy. Many large firms could be getting a better return on their training budgets.
The survey shows, for instance, where most large firms fall short in: READ MORE →
The survey on CPE and practice improvement, conducted with the Ohio Society of CPAs and consultant Michael Ramos, suggests that taxes are taking up a bigger part of soloists’ practices – even though many say they’d like to diversify into other areas.
In Paradise, Calif., CPA Al Sperske, who’s been reading CPA Trendlines for more than 10 years, is among those stressed out by keeping up. “Taxes,” he says. “Nuts in Congress will not leave them alone.” READ MORE →
Payroll hit a new high in hours worked even as hourly wages continue to slide, according to new CPA Trendlines research. For payroll staff, numbers and hours are up at about the same rate that wages are down. Meanwhile, women keep making huge gains.
In this report, CPA Trendlines highlights:
Current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, payroll, tax, and CPA segments of the industry.
Average hourly wages for key segments.
Typical hours worked per week, and
Trends concerning women in the accounting workforce.
Problems CPE alone won’t solve.
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Volatility in payroll sector keeps rolling.