Showing posts with label CPA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CPA. Show all posts
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Some Thoughts After The Tax Filing Deadline(s)

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  There is something happening in the public accounting profession. The profession itself is aging. The AICPA expected 75% of practicing CPA...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

A CPA’s Signature And The Informal Claim Doctrine

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  I am looking at case where the CPA signed a return on behalf of a client. Been there and done that. There is a hard-and-fast rule when...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Deducting Something You Did Not Pay For

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What caught my eye was the amount of penalties at issue:      Year                        Amount      2002                        ...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

We Recently Lost An Employee

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What I do for a living can be demanding. I am thinking about it because we have lost another employee. Mind you, there is always a...
Sunday, September 2, 2018

Oh Henry!

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It is a classic tax case. Let’s travel back to the 1950s. Let us introduce Robert Lee Henry, both an attorney and a CPA.   He ...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

A CPA Draws A Fraud Penalty

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I see that a CPA drew a fraud penalty. There is something you don’t see every day. The CPA is Curtis Ankerberg. He practices in Or...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

A CPA Goes Into Personal Audit

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Folks, if you wind up before the Tax Court, please do not say the following: … petitioner testified that allocating some of the expenses ...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Issuing 1099s In Anger

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Several years ago, I received an angry call from another CPA. He had lost a couple of key partners, to which he responded with an alm...