CPA Bloggers: Where Are The Accountants?

MODIFIED 7/5

Sadly, there are still far too few CPAs/CAs who blog. I've read that about 20% of all business blogs are law related.

So, where is the CPA profession?

Folks, I think it's time to pay attention. It's pretty hard to find accounting blogs but I pulled together the following list. I have not included blogs that are abandoned (no posts in past 6 months) or those by media. If anybody knows of others, they're welcome in the comments section.

Here are the blogs by CPAs, for the public (i.e. not just for other CPAs) that I could find:

Reed Tinsley's blog for health care niche (EXCELLENT)

From Greg's Head a technology blog by PKF in Texas (newish)

Corporate Governance blog by Citrin Cooperman in NY (very new)

Solo Accountant Reporter blog by Jeff Moore on managerial and forensic accounting tips, news, views & related resources

Tax Blagger in the UK (well done and with the humor you'd expect from our friends across the pond)

Roth & Co CPA Blog  Tax Update blog with frequent, interesting and varied dialogue

The Vanilla Accounting Blog  Info for the general public, couple posts a month, good "voice"

Tick Marks by Dan Meyer, accounting faculty (seems about half for cpas, half for public)

CPA Sense by Milt Baker, retired MI CPA blogging since 2004

Tax Guru--Ker$tetter Letter  Blogging for the public since 1999(!?) and regularly since 2001

Accounting for Non-Accountants Blog by John Day (rarely posts)

Business Valuation Blog  Eva Lang is probably one of the best known CPA bloggers doing the blog thing since 2002

Fraud Files by practice specialist CPA Tracy Coenen

Other CPA blogs (more for CPAs than for the public):

Big4Guy Confessions, Thoughts, Observations and Musings of a Big4Guy (very thorough)

Dave Rachford's CPA Marketing Center Blog  Sharing his tax accounting marketing experiences with other CPAs.

CPA Firm Technology Blog by CPA & technology advisory, Brian Tankersley

The Tech Gap by CPA & technology advisor, Gregory LaFollette

And accountants, if this doesn't get your attention, it certainly should!!! There's a lot of accounting-related stuff being discussed in lawyer blogs and by other competitors. There are scores of them. Here are just a few:

Death and Taxes blog

Tax Prof by Paul L. Caron at the University of Cincinnati College of Law

Mauled Again by James Edward Maule of the Villanova University School of Law

Start Making Sense by Daniel Shaviro at New York University Law School

A long list of the many law blogs, by specialty, found at the 3LEphiphany site.

Blogs about services CPAs offer but are by service providers who are not "CPA firms":

Mercer on Value BV guy, Steve Mercer of Mercer Capital, providing investment banking and financial advisory services

The Analyst's Accounting Observer  By CPA and CFA Jack T. Ciesielski

Taxable Talk by Russ Fox, EA, pres of Clayton Financial and Tax

Our Taxing Times by Trish MacIntyre, EA, on the US tax system and the business of doing taxes

Don't Mess With Taxes by Kay Bell, a journalist but also a self-proclaimed tax geek.
Bell's blog named "one of the Internet's 10 best tax sites" by Top 10 Sources; cited by Moneysmartz as one of the Web's best tax information blogs; recognized as a Web Star of the Week by WebCPA; included in Top 10 Tax Stories of 2005 by TaxProf...reprinted in the respected tax journal Tax Analysts.

C'mon guys, are you paying attention yet?  It's time to get busy!

Comments

[Dave Rachford]

Thanks for the mention! and keep up the good work!

Dave

[Tracy Coenen]

Thanks for noticing my blog!

[Dan Meyer]

Thanks for mentioning my blog. I did not see "BSG CPA Trendlines" by Rick Telberg mentioned and I think that "Fraud Files" was mentioned twice.

[RNC]

Yes,I have also been searching but found lawyers more active.Are Accountants ,in general,not net savy?I am from India and would like to hear from you as to whether there will be interest in the Accounting scenario in India including a comparison between USGAPP and Indian GAAP.

[Madhur Khandelia]

Another blog of Chartered Accountants in India for public is forum4ca.com. This blog is meant for Chartered Accountants, finance pros, and CPAs. Its a good platform for discussion and a window to India's corporate, financial and accounting world.

[Dave Fender]

Great information. Agree with you that there is a dearth of CPA blogs. Time to change that state of affairs.