South Florida employment

Staff South Florida Business Journal

Tax activity picks up for local firms

South Florida accounting firms are seeing the number of consulting engagements increasing as clients see more business, along with the number of due diligence engagements for purchase and sales of businesses.

Marcum LLP, one of the region?s larger firms, said state and local tax activity picked up significantly with some large, new engagements.

?In the mid-2000s, the CPA market was booming because of Sarbanes-Oxley. CPA firms hardly needed to prospect for business ? it was coming on its own ? and headhunters were looking for CPAs,? said Ray Saller, director of human resources at Marcum Florida. ?During the recession, the momentum stopped. A lot of firms suffered, especially those concentrated in hard-hit industries like real estate, automotive and financial services.?

Saller said Marcum was well positioned to weather the storm because its business is diversified.

?The pendulum is starting to swing ever so slightly back the other way again,? he said. ?There is perpetual demand for CPAs with two to five years of experience again.?

Financial jobs begin modest recovery

obs in the South Florida financial sector are finally on the rebound, but they have a long way to go before they fully recover from the crushing recession.

Statewide financial employment plummeted 16 percent between 2007 and 2010. In 2013, jobs are still down 10 percent from the peak year. UCF projections through 2016 don?t have them even approaching peak level employment.

Financial jobs during the housing boom were full of subprime lending positions that likely won?t return. Still, some opportunities are surfacing as banks turn the corner.

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