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Planning Your Job Search In April 2010, the unemployment rate hovered at 9.9% as the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930's drags on. Even more discouraging is the fact that 45.9% of the unemployed have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more. The question remains: how long is YOUR job search going to take? It will probably take longer than you anticipate. Whether you were forced out your last position due to corporate restructuring or you are voluntarily moving on, the same rule applies: the further up the corporate food chain you are, the longer your job hunt will take. Why? There are far fewer jobs at the top of the....... Prometric And The CPA Exam: What You Need to Know before You Sit for the Exam A Chinese proverb states, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." Your journey to getting your CPA license may seem like a journey of a thousand miles but if you take it one step at a time, you will get there. Whether you earn a "Passed," "Failed" or "Conditional" when you sit for the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Exam (CPA Exam) will depend on how prepared you are. Before your test day, make sure that you have taken these steps. 1. Feel like going for a spin? Take a Prometric for a test drive! Contact the center....... Employment Prospects For Accountants And CPAs According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website, "Accountants and auditors held about 1.3 million jobs in 2008." (As of December 17, 2009, these were the latest statistics available.) As with many other careers, accountants and auditors worked throughout private industry and government. Of these, about 24% worked for payroll service firms, tax preparation, accounting, and bookkeeping firms. Another 8% were self-employed. Among the larger set of management accountants, internal auditors, or government accountants and auditors, there is a subset who are licensed CPAs. Most CPAs work in urban areas because that's where the jobs are--most corporate regional or central offices and government offices are in urban areas. A small percent of accounting professionals are....... Uniform CPA Exam The Uniform CPA Examination is the national exam which is 1/3 of the "Three Es" required to be licensed as a CPA: Education, Examination, and Experience. Therefore, passing the exam by itself is not enough to meet the requirements of being a licensed CPA. A person qualifies to sit for the CPA Exam by meeting the requirements of one of the 55 jurisdictions granting the CPA license. These 55 U.S. jurisdictions are the 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and the US territories of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Northern Marianas Islands are not offering the exam yet. Through the NASBA....... Management Accounting Techniques The High Low Method For Semi Variable Costs Accounting is a complicated and very really important an element of your business. A business owner should take the time to get their accounts in order. If you also are using a certified public accountant there are also sure things you need to know. Here are too a few important things to do when using a CPA.One thing you really actually have to do is to test out to work with your accountant often throughout the year. This may also allow you actually very to plan out tax secrets that suffer to be implemented early in the year. There are also things you really can also not be in....... Small Businesses And The 2010 Budget The 2010 emergency budget has not brought much help for the average small business in the UK. Most small businesses sell direct to the public, so they needed a budget that gave their customers more disposable income. Raising VAT to 20% has had the opposite effect. When you combine this with the fact that around 600,000 people will lose their jobs because of the cuts announced you have a recipe for disaster. All small business need good cash flow to be able to stay in business. If cash stops coming in a business can very quickly go under, sometimes within a matter of months. A good accountant is essential to....... Finding Career Tests That Work Testing the Waters: Career Tests that Work for You! Yes, this is an accounting blog so at least you are pretty clear that you want your career to focus on accounting. Good start! The English majors don't even know this much yet! Whatever it is that you do, when your personality, abilities, and values align with the organization which hires you, your chances for workplace happiness are much higher. For instance, a non-smoking CPA might not be happy working for a tobacco company lobbyist because their values probably will not align. Similarly, an accountant who is a fan of the Boston Red Sox baseball team might feel very uncomfortable working for....... The IQEX Exam For Canadian Chartered Accountants If you are a Canadian Chartered Accountant (CA) who was educated in Canada, you can become a U.S. Certified Public Accountant (CPA) by passing IQEX. IQEX is an acronym for the International Uniform Certified Public Accountant Qualification Examination. This test is sometimes referred to as The U.S. CPA Reciprocity Exam. The exam covers U.S. taxation and other topics specific to U.S. practice, and thus probably not taught during the Canadian college program. The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) offers the IQEX to qualified international candidates each fall. If you are an internationally trained accountant, you may wish to sit for the IQEX exam and seek a reciprocal CPA designation, since the CPA....... IFRS: Coming To A CPA Exam Near You Think of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as the set of standards for international accounting practices which were codified and adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Actually, there is a set of standards which predates IFRS. From 1973-2001, the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) issued a series of International Accounting Standards (IAS) by which accounting was conducted. On April 1, 2001, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) took over the duty of promulgating the International Accounting Standards from the IASC. Soon after that, the International Accounting Standards Board combined the existing IAS and SICs and called the new set of standards International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). As of May 2010, all of the....... CPA Exam Glossary This is will be a very quick, possibly even slightly humorous romp through the key terms in CPA Land. Academic Credentials Evaluation: Are you applying to sit for the CPA Exam for the first time? If you are, you may wish to have your credentials evaluated BEFORE you apply to sit for the exam. Why? There is a blogger who stated that it took seven months just to get approved to sit for the exam because there were eligibility questions. If his transcript had been evaluated before he applied, he probably would have saved himself some time. What is the evaluator looking for? Each state has its own requirements to sit....... |
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