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2025 Tax Season Made Easy: How Outsourcing Helps Accounting Firms Stay Efficient 

As the 2025 tax season began on January 27th, businesses geared up for the annual surge in reporting, compliance, and operational challenges. To streamline filing, the IRS have been rolling out a wave of digital upgrades—expanded online accounts, mobile-friendly tax forms, and AI-powered virtual assistants.   Yet even amidst the changes, businesses still face the same […]

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Expanding the CPA Talent Pipeline: What U.S. Businesses Need to Know  

A Bigger and More Diverse Pool of CPA Talent for a Changing Industry   The accounting profession is undergoing a tremendous transformation. With increasing regulatory demands, globalized business operations, and a growing talent shortage, U.S. firms are now facing new challenges in staffing their finance and accounting teams. A major development that could reshape the industry

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Maximizing Finance Roles Through Training

Maximizing Finance Roles Through Training 

The accounting and financial industry has one constant – change. Ensuring your teams are always current on regulatory and compliance changes can be challenging, especially when facing various business challenges.  Ongoing labor shortages and recruitment challenges coupled with overburdened staff is the perfect storm that could see your business unable to meet compliance requirements.  However,

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In 5 Years: CFO Responsibilities and Outsourcing's Strategic Impact

In 5 Years: CFO Responsibilities and Outsourcing’s Strategic Impact

Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are really seeing their roles change dramatically with the rise of AI and automation. Plus, as more accounting work is outsourced to affordable hubs like the Philippines and India, the landscape is shifting.  In the next five years, we’re looking at CFOs stepping up as strategic leaders, really homing in on

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Outsourced Accounting: Why CFOs Choose Philippine Finance Teams 

Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) have always had their plates full. Their focus is not only cost management, but they’re also aiming for operational excellence and ensuring the company can grow without hitting financial roadblocks.   To stay competitive in the accounting industry, many companies consider outsourcing their accounting or financial tasks to the Philippines as

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Grow your accounting business through remote work

Unlock your competitive advantage Support your staff Accounting companies across the U.S. and Australia are waking up to the advantages of remote staffing. From taking over time-heavy administrative tasks to free up more billable hours to addressing the challenges of hiring staff such as accountants, bookkeepers and tax accountants, remote workers are the key to

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Cloudstaff and IPA Group Join Forces to Address Accounting Talent Challenges

Revolutionizing Accounting Careers Through Innovative Collaboration: Cloudstaff and IPA Group Join Forces. The critical global talent shortage for accountants is a pressing challenge – not only affecting accounting firms, but companies across industries worldwide. The widening disparity between the demand for skilled accounting professionals and their availability has only been deepened by the ‘accountant burnout

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Why Attracting Accounting and Finance Talent is Hard

In the accounting industry, it’s quite common for businesses to face challenges when looking for top-notch professionals. The demand for skilled accounting experts continues to grow especially in the current industry setting.  In fact, we conducted a study where 25% of our respondents stated that accounting and finance roles are one of the most difficult

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How can finance professionals leverage AI and ChatGPT?

The finance industry notoriously handles vast amounts of data. Processing the sheer volume of market trends, historical performance, customer behaviour and account data can be time-consuming and prone to human error. This blog discusses how finance professionals can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to increase efficiency and data reliability.  Is AI safe for finance professionals to

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