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Are You Earning What You Deserve?

Plus some predictions about where the job market is headed.
By CPA Trendlines Research
Here’s a statistic you can probably sympathize with. According to new salary data, 99 percent of finance professionals report experiencing some level of burnout in the past year.
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Unless you’re in that other 1 percent, you know how it feels. And who could blame you for feeling that feeling and then looking at your paycheck?
Ten Tips on Using Newsletters | Listicle

By CPA Trendlines Research
A newsletter for clients should serve several purposes. Frame it so that it does more than simply state facts. Aim those facts as various objectives.
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Once you create a newsletter, make it pay off.
The New Pipeline: Outsourcing and Offshoring

Firms still are working out their options and business models.
By CPA Trendlines Research
The 2024 Rosenberg National Survey of CPA Firm Statistics has found something that everybody knew. It has also found that there’s more of it than anybody knew.
And that there’s more coming.
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This swelling tsunami sweeping over the accounting industry is the use of outsourced staff, outsourced tax returns, and the ultimate in remote work, offshoring assignments and functions to foreign lands.
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Is the IRS Adequately Tracking Corporate Tax Evasion?

The Inspector General smells something fishy.
By CPA Trendlines Research
Believe it not, there are large American corporations that establish a pseudo-presence in other countries for the sole purpose of evading taxes.
And that’s not the only trick in the corporate books.
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Granted, sometimes those tricks are legitimate tax tactics. The tax code has loopholes, and that’s what they’re for.
Needless to say, corporate tax strategy can get pretty complicated. There is an entire industry of lawyers, accountants and wealth management professionals dedicated to walking the fine line between evasion and due diligence in the interest of shareholders.
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