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TaxConnex
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
More generally, accounting talent pool concerns are pressing even for accounting firms , as enrollment rates of accounting students continue to fall. The accounting education pipeline is drier than ever even as accounting degrees require many additional course hours. There were about 1.65
Going Concern
AUGUST 24, 2022
Stumbled across this interesting paper by authors Paul Madsen and Jeffrey Piao today and thought it worth sharing despite its age (2019). Misery in accounting is timeless after all. Whether accounting is a miserable job is an empirical question that has not been carefully evaluated previously. Hope the AICPA is reading this!
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Going Concern
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
A record 68,639 students graduated with accounting degrees in 2010. Nearly 4 in 10 accounting graduates hired last year by CPA firms had master’s degrees, compared with 26 percent in 2008. By contrast, 43 percent of graduates hired had bachelor’s degrees, down from 56 percent in 2008.
Going Concern
MAY 9, 2023
This is from CNN Philippines in March : The country is facing a shortage of accountants as college enrollment for this field of study dropped while those licensed chose to work abroad, a group of certified public accountants said on Friday. Additionally, US accounting degree completions peaked in 2015-16 and have trended down since.
BuildYourFirm
APRIL 28, 2020
For twenty consecutive years, Allan has been named by Accounting Today as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the accounting profession. In 2019, he was recognized as the “Third Most Influential” in the profession. You can no longer just graduate with an accounting degree. Twitter l LinkedIn l Website.
Going Concern
MAY 20, 2024
PwC is facing legal action claiming the accountancy firm is liable for the alleged rape of a graduate employee following after-work drinks. The situation Watson finds himself in makes a mockery of the corporate whistleblower protections that were introduced in July 2019 and inspired him to take legal action three years later.
CPA Practice
MAY 30, 2023
Going Concern sounded the alarm back in 2019 about candidate numbers shrinking. But a huge problem the accounting profession is facing is how to get accounting students interested in becoming CPAs and taking the exam, as there has been declining interest in an accounting degree at universities—thus creating a CPA talent shortage.
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