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Accounting leaders face pressure to choose a path that could reshape talent pipelines and firm culture for years to come.

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Accounting Influencers
With Rob Brown

Deloitte’s decision to dismantle its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program for 173,000 U.S. employees is sending shockwaves through the accounting profession, exposing deep divisions on a global scale and forcing firm leaders to weigh politics against talent priorities.

The move—ending DEI goals, disbanding related departments, eliminating annual reporting, and ordering staff to remove pronouns from email signatures—came just hours before Deloitte UK issued a memo affirming its commitment to DEI.

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Your Sales Tax Headaches Are Only Just Beginning

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With Rick Telberg
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The changes wrought by COVID are rolling through the business world, pushing many of them into online commerce and cross-border sales and, ultimately, into new and nforeseen tax problems, according to Liz Armbruester, senior VP of global compliance at Avalara.

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From her perch, see tracks how governments at all levels and across the globe are capitalizing on the rapidly digitizing business world to automatically collect taxes due. In the U.S., states and localities are gearing up to crack down on the new sources of revenues, leaving many businesses and their accountants still ill-equipped to handle the new rules, Armbruester tells Rick Telberg for CPA Trendlines.

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