CLA
CLA believes in this type of specialization and currently has identified 16 of these groups.
What is Industry?
The name of Taylor Swift’s current tour.
What is Era's Tour?
This career path focuses on assisting our clients when it comes to controls, audits and security policies. But can also assist in finding vulnerable areas of the business structure.
What is Information Technology?
This notorious gangster committed a lot of crimes, but the crime that put him away was failing to pay taxes.
Who is Al Capone?
When preparing a return that is missing information this is the best way to summarize this data.
What is an open item list?
CLA currently has over 121 of these across the country.
What are offices?
The name of Olivia Rodrigo’s first number 1 hit single.
What is Driver's License?
This career path focuses on helping our clients to financially plan for retirement.
What is Wealth Advisory?
Cuffs are here! This New Jersey native served 8 months in prison for filing falsified tax returns.
Who is Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino?
The best time to communicate when a return contains an issue that is unexpected (large balance, significant changes)
ASAP
CLA believes that allowing folks to have experiences and choices in finding their passion makes for a better experience for everyone, encouraging everyone to find this.
What is an Inspired Career?
This young woman has had many careers (astronaut, farmer, doctor) but also had time to headline a recent movie.
Who is Barbie?
This career path focuses on helping our clients to not only complete daily accounting functions but also to analyze their data to find opportunities for savings and growth.
What is Bizops?
This singer was charged with defrauding the Spanish government of 14.5 million Euros in taxes between 2012 and 2014.
Who is Shakira?
This type of review should be conducted before passing along for formal review.
In addition to the more traditional tax and assurance career paths, CLA has identified these other areas of expertise.
What is Bizops, Digital, Wealth Advisory, etc?
This actor has played a superhero in more than 10 movies.
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
This career path focuses on planning and compliance to meet government-imposed filing and possibly payment requirements.
What is Tax?
After her and her husband admitted to avoiding and not paying taxes, this Real Housewives star served 15 months in prison.
Who is Teresa Giudice?
This causes a red code within STAR time entry
What is WIP/AR hold?
CLA recognizes that public accounting may not be your long term passion but rather a great learning opportunity to ultimately transition to another path. These folks have an important role beyond CLA in the future.
Who are alumni?
This celebrity recently shared her pregnancy announcement while holding a large sign at a Blink 182 concert.
Who is Kourtney Kardashian?
This career path focuses on helping our clients to automate manual processes to improve efficiency.
What is Digital Transformation?
This Celebrity may know best when it comes to TV, but is now serving prison time on charges including bank fraud and tax evasion.
Who is Todd Chrisley?
A technic to consider when approaching new or unknown issues within returns when you are stuck or aren't sure to proceed.
What is asking questions or asking for help?