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In ongoing accounting crunch, where to go for sales tax help?

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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. from 2020 and down 15.9%

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This One Chart Shows Just How Boned the Accounting Profession Is

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The authors compared accounting degrees to computer science degrees completed in the state of New York between 2010 and 2020 which is how we ended up with this chode. Between 2015 and 2020, the number of NYS licenses issued declined by approximately 20%. What are we looking at?

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Friday Footnotes: The PCAOB-to-Practice Pipeline and Audit Quality; Ball Extension; Tim Ryan’s Replacement | 1.12.24

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Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Long Reads How Auditor Deloitte Missed A Nigerian Company’s Massive Fraud [ Forbes ] Hindenburg Research, known for sniffing out corporate scams, took aim in June at an obscure Nigeria-based outfit named Tingo Group. Tingo paid $1.6

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MNCPA to Educators: “We Do Not Need New CPAs Who Have Additional College Credits; We Need More CPAs, Period.”

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When evaluating the decision to pursue legislation, the MNCPA board focused on attracting students to the accounting degree and, ultimately, CPA certification. A meeting with Julie Blaha, the Minnesota state auditor, confirmed this issue in Minnesota.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Firms Hate Going Concern (Warnings, That Is); Being a Whistleblower Blows | 5.20.24

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Thanks to the widespread distribution efforts, 7,780 accounting students, graduates, and young professionals under the age of 35 who were pursuing or had pursued accounting degrees and careers—including CPAs and non-CPAs—completed the survey, including 3,287 full- or part-time students. Find it, and other ICPAS insights, here.

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State of the Accounting Profession 2022 Via the AICPA Trends Report

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This latest iteration of the report covers university data reported to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) for the 2019–20 academic year in addition to abbreviated university responses regarding enrollment expectations for both the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years. who penned the report’s introduction.

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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

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The new publication includes some observations from PCAOB staff about how firms are leaning on such providers and suggests procedures for auditors to follow as they plan and perform audits. This was a 23 per increase – or $51 million – over the 2020 calendar year, when Deloitte enjoyed $214 million worth of federal business.