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2024年4月5日 · Consulting accounts for a plurality of the Top 100's revenue, but that's largely because that's the case among the billion-dollar firms, where it accounts for 46%; the smaller cohorts are much less interested, with consulting representing only 23% of revenue at firms with between $100 million and $1 billion in revenue, and a mere 15% at firms with less than $100 …

This annual ranking of the leading CPA financial planners by assets under management also shares their major concerns and their strategies for dealing with their most pressing issues.

The top 100 firms and regional leaders. This annual ranking of the leading national and local firms also includes data analysis, as well as their chief executives’ take on the major issues facing their firms, and their strategies for success going forward.

2025年1月2日 · Reshaping the pyramid. Article by Daniel Hood. Consider the pyramid. For much of its modern history, the public accounting profession has relied on the pyramid — at least metaphorically — in building both the ownership and management structures of CPA firms, and it has proven a remarkably enduring model, to the point where it was effectively the only model …

2024年12月24日 · Although previously delayed, in 2025, individuals who inherited an IRA from someone who died on or after Jan. 1, 2020, will be required to withdraw all funds in the IRA by Dec. 31 of the 10th full calendar year following the decedent's death, thereby eliminating the ability to use a "stretch IRA" strategy that allowed owners of IRAs to pass along the assets in …

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2024年9月30日 · Accountants have pretty much always used technology — what else do you call an abacus or a slide rule or an adding machine? — but it is increasingly obvious that, as the world moves through its digital revolution, it has slowly become a technology-driven profession, where powerful software solutions are not enhancements but true necessities for all but the most …

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