Majority of practitioners reporting improved results.
Complete findings are published in The CPA Trendlines Practitioner’s Tax Season Performance Review and Outlook Report. (Learn more here)
by Rick Telberg
The CPA Trendlines busy-season mood-barometer is showing significantly higher satisfaction and confidence ratings as the profession grinds through one of its best performances in years.
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Tools for balancing work and life in the most special time of year.
By Ira Rosenbloom
Three nights a week and Saturdays. For many accountants, this describes the extra effort that is made to properly service clients during tax season. The quality of life for accountants and their families typically takes a turn for the worse during this special time of year. Most will tolerate the change because it brings cash flow and profits.
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And so, too, the mood of the accounting profession.
by Rick Telberg
The outlook for a better busy season is improving among tax and accounting practitioners, with 16% reporting “much better” operations in January, up from 11% in the year-ago month and continuing a string of monthly year-over-year advances in the CPA Trendlines polling.
Complete findings are published in The CPA Trendlines Practitioner’s Tax Season Performance Review and Outlook Report. (Learn more here)
Overall, practitioners are headed into the jaws of the February busy season with 57% of them reporting generally positive results. Only 19% are calling for worse and 25% forecast no change.
Four in five expect the same or better than last year’s busy season.
by Rick Telberg
As Busy Season 2012 gets into full gear, tax and accounting professionals are holding steadfast to their confidence that this year’s results could show a marked improvement over last year’s, according to current readings of the profession by CPA Trendlines.
With January 2012 just beginning, 55% of accountants expect 2012 to be overall “somewhat” or “much” better than 2011, which is relatively unchanged from readings in November and December. To be sure, 26% expect no change from last year, and 19% are bracing for “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)
Major metrics suggest rebounding business.
Most tax and accounting professionals heading into busy season are expecting meaningful improvements over last year in revenues and profits, according to new CPA Trendlines research.
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.
Practitioners and experts seem to agree this coming tax season should be markedly better than last year’s.
And last year, for most, was better than the year before. We caught up with a few of the best-informed people in the business at the 2011 CCH user conference.
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