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Accounting — the language of business — is facing a talent crisis. Across the country, fewer students are choosing to major in accounting, and CPA exam participation has dropped sharply. This shrinking pipeline comes at a time when the profession faces a wave of retirements and an increasingly complex business environment. If this trend is not reversed, firms will face critical staffing shortages, investors and creditors will struggle to access timely and reliable information, and regulators will find it more difficult to detect fraud.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is sparking questions from employees and payroll departments about how to handle the various tax breaks, including on overtime pay.

Weinstein Spira provides time for study, food for study groups, and a $10,000 bonus for staff who successfully complete the CPA Exam process.

It’s still an employers’ job market for now, but more employees may be getting restless in their roles, data suggests.

The Internal Revenue Service and its Security Summit partners today reminded tax professionals about the federal mandate to have a Written Information Security Plan (WISP) designed to help protect them against threats from identity thieves and data breaches. IRS provides resources to help with this process.

Employees with shorter workweeks are more likely to experience positive health changes and better work fulfilment, and those improvements can provide workforces with job resources to accelerate professional and personal growth.

Productivity is lacking in the workplace, according to a Microsoft survey, with technology posing both as the problem and the solution.

The larger the accounting firm, the fewer CPAs it has on staff, according to new data from Inside Public Accounting.

Succession is a journey that can take several years, so the timing is important and it needs to be a choice, not a crisis.

There has never been a time when carefully planning out the future of your firm has been so important, says Matt Rampe of Rosenberg Consulting, as he offers a roadmap for building the firm you want.

The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 acknowledges the 4.9% global unemployment rate — the lowest since 1991. Behind this figure, though, is a decrease in the rate for middle-income countries but an increase for low-income countries. In addition, the fall in women’s unemployment to 5.2% lags behind the fall to 4.8% for men from the 2020 peak of 6.6% for both men and women.

As companies strive to stay nimble and deliver on critical business initiatives, new research from talent solutions and business consulting firm Robert Half shows that hiring is becoming increasingly time-consuming—and costly. In a survey of more than 2,200 U.S. hiring managers, nearly all (93%) said the hiring process takes longer now than it did just two years ago.

A click on a link in an email that could have brought down Catharine Drake Madeley’s CPA firm instead caused 40 clients whose tax information was exposed in a data breach to think of her and her staff even more as trusted advisers.

The accounting talent shortage has reached a near-crisis level, with all indications that the trend will continue for some time.

The decision to make non-audit CPAs stop using the credential may be less of a private equity strategy and more of a compliance response to regulatory structures.

Costs displace talent management as the top benefits decision driver, according to new Lockton research.

If you possess the skill, smarts, and persistence to become a licensed CPA, that should be something to celebrate and declare in your business dealings.

Five years from now, Generation Z and Millennial employees are expected to comprise more than 70% of the global workforce.

This is a red flag for CFOs who are outsourcing finance functions to firms that sell themselves as being forward-thinking or technology driven.

Amid a trend of more in-office work, a series of surveys offer perspective on the state of the workplace and reveal how employees feel about their place in the debate.