CPA Practice

AUGUST 30, 2023

How to fix the crumbing talent pipeline in the accounting profession is a topic on the minds of many people these days. And it popped up at a session during the first day of the 2023 Unique CPA Conference, “Bridging the Gap,” in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, IL, on Tuesday. There’s a lot more to it than doing audit and tax.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 12, 2023

post-secondary accounting degrees fell sharply in the 2021-22 academic year, according to a biennial American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) report on trends related to accounting graduation rates, the CPA Exam and hiring demand by accounting firms. The number of students earning U.S. and 8.4%, respectively.

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CPA Practice

MAY 30, 2023

If that trend were to continue, then more people should take the CPA exam in 2023, as another round of significant changes to the exam are slated to start on Jan. Starting in 2024, the redesigned CPA exam places a greater emphasis on technology and analytical skills, as well as on tax, accounting, and audit.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 16, 2022

.” That’s what a stakeholder told me recently when we spoke about the accountant shortage and the growing gap between students getting accounting degrees and recent graduates sitting for the CPA exam. 150 hours is the rule and accounting is nothing if not a pile of rules.

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Going Concern

MAY 20, 2024

Today the EY organization has announced new technology capabilities and a global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assurance framework for EY professionals as part of a multi-year, technology driven audit transformation program which is supported by plans to align approximately 9,000 Technology Risk professionals to the Assurance service line.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Deloitte Foundation expects to fund $30 million in scholarships for students over the next several years, including students interested in pursuing a fifth-year master’s degree in accounting, master’s of tax, or master’s of accounting with a concentration in audit, advisory or tax through the DFASP.

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Going Concern

MARCH 17, 2023

When evaluating the decision to pursue legislation, the MNCPA board focused on attracting students to the accounting degree and, ultimately, CPA certification. A decline in CPAs is affecting smaller cities, counties and school districts that are unable to find a CPA to perform their audits.

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Going Concern

MAY 9, 2023

Interesting because right around that time, the AICPA was observing a gap in people who graduate with an accounting degree and people who go on to sit for the CPA exam. Additionally, US accounting degree completions peaked in 2015-16 and have trended down since.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 19, 2023

By Girard Miller, Governing (TNS) S&P Global Ratings recently withdrew its credit ratings on 64 local governments after they failed to file financial updates on time because of staff shortages and delayed audits. Meanwhile, accounting firms were always happy to fill their off-season job calendars with state and local government audits.

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Accounting Insight

MARCH 8, 2023

Trouble finding qualified staff continues to be a top concern for accounting firms of all sizes, according to the AICPA’s 2023 Top Issues Survey. Your firm obviously needs a certain number of licensed CPAs if you provide auditing services. Consider non-traditional workers How many CPAs do you really need?

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

College graduates with accounting degrees , CPA exam takers , new entrants to the accounting workforce —all these metrics and our experience make us feel there’s a lack of interest in our industry. You can sense the collective anxiety brewing: Is our industry running low on accounting talent? By Andrew Argue, CPA.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 11, 2024

Before joining CohnReznick, Kavanagh was a partner for a Big 4 firm where he served as the audit engagement partner for two components of a Fortune 100 aerospace and defense company’s engagement and was the engagement partner at the issuer level for multiple SEC clients. BWK) recently expanded its staff by 20%.

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CPA Practice

MAY 25, 2023

The Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS) has presented its Outstanding Educator Award to two Illinois accounting faculty as part of its 2023 awards program. The following honorees will be recognized at the ICPAS Leadership Recognition and Awards Dinner on June 8, 2023, in Chicago.

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Going Concern

JULY 14, 2022

As we reported in April: The 2021 AICPA Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits report released a couple weeks ago tells us that the number of accounting graduates trended downward in the 2019–2020 academic year (most recent data available), with decreases of 2.8%

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Check out this week’s top remote accounting candidates. Check out this week’s top remote accounting candidates. The “big four” accounting firm reported revenue of A$3.4 EY Assurance teams now process over 775b lines of journal entry data each year, as part of the EY digitally transformed audit.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Hood & Strong Announces Audit Management Promotions Hood & Strong LLP, a leading Northern California public accounting and business consulting firm, recently promoted three audit team members to new and expanded roles. Corder received his accounting degree from Texas Christian University and holds an M.S.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

EY piled more than $700mn of extra debt on to its global operating business to deal with the costs of the failed plan to spin off its consulting arm, according to newly filed accounts. Between a wave of retirees and a drop in the number of people graduating with accounting degrees, the whole profession is struggling to staff up. “We

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Going Concern

JUNE 28, 2024

Internal audit’s role in the new European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act [ Wolters Kluwer ] The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act is a landmark regulation that seeks to define and harmonize comprehensive rules for the development and use of AI systems across the EU.

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