Gen Z Surges into Accounting for All the Reasons Your Mother Told You
Gen Z’s career outlook: Stability, security and practicality.
By CPA Trendlines Research
OUTLOOK & ANALYSIS
Is Practice Management Having Its Moment?
VC-funded Aiwyn and Canopy seek to stand out among over three dozen contenders.
By Seth Fineberg
At Large
What Other Tax Pros Want to Know About You
What our Busy Season Barometer didn’t ask (but should have).
By CPA Trendlines Research
The annual CPA Trendlines Busy Season Barometer is one of the most widely researched and respected surveys of trends at accounting firms across the nation.
MORE Barometer: Busy Season Barometer Stats: Who’s Responding and How They’re Doing | Your Colleagues Give Their Best Advice for Clients | Pro Services, Tech and Mining Sectors Most Likely to Thrive | Accountants See a Host of Woes for Businesses | Top Three Issues for Business: Tariffs, Taxes and Inflation | Accountants Reporting a Pretty Good Year | Concerns Take Curious Shifts as Tax Season Closes | Tax Season Faceplant: Accountants Overrun by Late Chaos | Accountants Turn Negative Amid Tariffs, Trade, Uncertainty | What CPA Firms Could Do Better | SURVEY: Which Client Industries Will Grow This Year | Tax Preparers Share Advice for Your Clients | Staffing, Tech, Prices Top Tax Pros’ Concerns | Tax Pros Gear Up for a Better Busy Season | Tax Season 2025 Begins. Ready or Not.
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As you know if you’re one of the hundreds of Barometer respondents, the survey looks for a wide range of hard data and subjective opinions. Among them:
- How firms are handling the current tax season
- What their chief concerns are
- Success metrics on client lists, revenues, profits and extensions
Okorie Ramsey: Diversity’s About Building Bigger Tables | Accounting Influencers
“…Not just filling seats.”
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Accounting Influencers
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As past chair of AICPA and CIMA, Okorie Ramsey represented nearly 700,000 members worldwide. But in his view, leadership isn’t about wielding power—it’s about partnership, innovation, and service to the public.
In a wide-ranging conversation on the Accounting Influencers podcast, Ramsey reflects on his tenure, the profession’s most significant challenges, and what excites him most about the future.
“It’s a huge role,” Ramsey says, “but it’s also a wonderful opportunity.”
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Busy Season Barometer Stats: Who’s Responding and How They’re Doing
How does your practice compare?
By CPA Trendlines Research
The 2025 CPA Trendlines Busy Season Barometer survey has been gathering data from hundreds of accountants and tax practitioners across the country. Here are some of the stats on who’s responding and how they’re doing this year.
MORE Barometer: Your Colleagues Give Their Best Advice for Clients | Pro Services, Tech and Mining Sectors Most Likely to Thrive | Accountants See a Host of Woes for Businesses | Top Three Issues for Business: Tariffs, Taxes and Inflation | Accountants Reporting a Pretty Good Year | Concerns Take Curious Shifts as Tax Season Closes | Tax Season Faceplant: Accountants Overrun by Late Chaos | Accountants Turn Negative Amid Tariffs, Trade, Uncertainty | What CPA Firms Could Do Better | SURVEY: Which Client Industries Will Grow This Year | Tax Preparers Share Advice for Your Clients | Staffing, Tech, Prices Top Tax Pros’ Concerns | Tax Pros Gear Up for a Better Busy Season | Tax Season 2025 Begins. Ready or Not.
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Small firms prevail.
- 24 percent are sole practitioners.
- 42 percent have 2-10 people in the firm.
- 17 percent have 11-25 people.