I Just Started My First Accounting Job, What Do I Do? [HINT: Don’t Jump In The Pond, Yes It Happened]

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Preparation In your first accounting job attend as many company events you can before you start. Put yourself out there and start building relationships. Reach out to key people at the company via email and see if there is any advice they have on starting. Even if you don’t think you need it, they will…

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Will Being Jewish Affect My Accounting Career?

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From the mailbag: Good Evening Sir, Thank you for some of your recent posts. I have read a few of them and have found some helpful information. I would appreciate any general thoughts or advice you may have for me and where I am holding on a somewhat unique situation. I currently work for a large…

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One Of The Most Powerful Women In Accounting [PODCAST] with Geni Whitehouse, Author, Speaker, Trainer at EvenaNerd.com

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Geni has a great story and she was an awesome guest on the podcast! She is a CPA, author, speaker, blogger, and partner at a CPA firm. Geni has a very interesting background and she has won a number of awards over the years including: 2013 One of 25 Most Powerful Women in Accounting – CPA Practice…

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3 Tips To Use This Busy Season To Make 2015 Your BEST Year Yet!

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1) Be in charge of an event: Make sure you can handle it! While busy season is busy, at many firms more events and happy hours actually take place.If you lead an event, it needs to be something you know you won’t fail at–something in which you can only look good for pulling off! To be…

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Former National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Chairmen Calvin Harris [PODCAST]

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Harris is the President of Change Management, serving as the subject matter expert in “on-call COO and CFO” financial and administrative management. He has over 20 years of “C-suite” level experience working with organizations of various sizes. Harris’s diverse career began at a “Big Four” international accounting firm and includes experience in forensic accounting and senior management…

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The Secret To Become The #1 Employee At Your Accounting Firm

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When I first joined Beta Alpha Psi, the accounting honors society, I remembered something in my first few meetings that still sticks with me today. Representatives from firms would come to the meetings and almost every time they said the following: [while speaking to a crowd of students] “Oh, when someone comes to you saying they…

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Top CPA Firm Merger & Acquisition Consultant Shares His Career Experience

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Allan Koltin, nationally recognized speaker and industry analyst, has appeared on the CNN, WGN and Fox Television networks and has been quoted frequently in such media as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and New York Post, as well as Bloomberg News, BBC World Service, Business Week,…

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Fostering Entrepreneurship Inside A CPA Firm [PODCAST] with Dave Enick, Managing Director and Shareholder @ CBIZ KRMT

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Dave is the Managing Director/Shareholder of CBIZ Kirkland, Russ, Murphy & Tapp and Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. – KRMT Tampa Bay Division.  Prior to joining the practice, he spent five years in public accounting with Deloitte & Touche in Tampa and Ernst & Young in Atlanta. Dave has extensive experience with a wide range of audit and…

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How To Get A Personal Recommendation To Work At Any Accounting Firm (Script Included)

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From the Bean Counter mailbag (read the entire story): Hello Andrew.  I am a junior accounting student. First of all I want to thank you for what you do for the community, your passion and energy is definitely contagious. I am looking into getting your program and I would like to know if you have…

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Top 8 Ways To FAIL This Busy Season

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Now that it’s December, most people in public and private accounting for that matter are gearing up for the spring busy season! Auditors performs audits, private accountants prepare for audits, and tax people tax it up! What makes this time of year so interesting isn’t just that everyone is stressed and overworked. There are also…

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How Can I Get An Accounting Internship In New York?

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I remember in University, so many people dreamed of the big city. It’s allure had many people questioning, what can I do to work in New York? Hi Andrew, I saw you at a Beta event at FAU a little while ago and I thought you gave some really great advice. If you could I’d…

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How Long Should You Study for Each Section of the CPA Exam?

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From the Bean Counter mailbag! Andrew, How much time would you recommend allocating to each section of the CPA Exam assuming you’re using a CPA review course? Thanks, Anon Bean Counter Ah, the dreaded CPA exam. While most people dread it, I constantly say: “it’s not that hard” There are two things that are actually…

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Black Friday + Cyber Monday Deals: Resume Review & Get Hired By Big 4 Accounting Firms (COURSE)

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Just last week I received an email from a woman whose resume I reviewed. She was a particularly challenging review as she had been out of University for two years, hadn’t been working at all, just studying for the CPA exam. 2 years! But we charged forward. I re-did the resume, cover letter, and action…

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Before You Accept Your Big 4 Firm Offer, Make Sure It’s Actually The Job You Think It Is

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Many students don’t realize that just because you accept an offer at the Big 4, it doesn’t mean you’re actually getting the job everyone thinks of. What do I mean? Let’s find out. Hello Bean Counter, I have a question to run by you. I am freshly out of college and finished my CPA. I got…

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What Interstellar Taught Me About An Accounting Career

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If you haven’t seen the new movie Interstellar, I highly recommend it. It was an incredible adventure film made by the same director that made The Dark Knight and Inception. Click the image below to watch the trailer. And there was one quote that while it seems unrelated to accounting, got me thinking: “We used…

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