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Study: ChatGPT Won’t Be Replacing Accounting Professors In the Near Future

Going Concern

If you’re a high school student and future accounting major hoping to receive your undergraduate education from a friendly chatbot, we’re sorry to say that won’t be happening any time soon. There were ten questions for the Introductory Financial Accounting and 10 for the Advanced Financial Accounting course units.

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Marquette University Launches a ‘No Stupid Questions’ Program For Early Accounting Students

Going Concern

Marquette University’s #32 ranked undergraduate accounting program* has deployed a mentoring project that seeks to help first year accounting students make sense of the language of business. “We She understood nothing. “I She found that most students were confused about the same thing that puzzled her at first: industry lingo.

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Is an Accounting Major Too Hard? A Thread

Going Concern

Is accounting too hard? That is the question posed by Dr. Josh McGowan, CPA on Twitter: Is the accounting major too difficult? At many universities, accounting courses (especially Principles I & II) have some of the lowest GPAs compared to other disciplines. accounting. — Anyway, that’s the question.

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Yale Grad and Grant Thornton Lawyer Argues The Case For an Undergraduate Accounting Program at Yale

Going Concern

2010) has penned an article for Yale Daily News that argues — quite well — why Yale needs an accounting program. There’s nothing wrong with the trades, in fact if you do the math many plumbers make more per hour than early-career public accountants (ouch again). Accounting is a trade.” Juniors and seniors only.

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Beyond automation: How AI can transform the human side of accounting

Xero

I was excited to sit down at Xerocon Nashville recently with Ashley Francis, a CPA with almost 25 years of experience, who has become an accounting expert on using artificial intelligence. What is the industry like now versus when you started as an accountant? Ashley builds prompts and uses AI to automate routine tasks.

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Research: Why Students — Particularly Diverse Ones — Aren’t Pursuing Accounting

Going Concern

This deep dive was inspired by earlier research on student perceptions and attitudes toward accounting, especially attitudes among Black and Hispanic high school and college students [ PDF of those findings here ]. Other themes emerged among students who ultimately chose not to pursue accounting. the 150 credit hour requirement).

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Allow IRS Criminal Investigators to Keep Following the Money

Withum

Due to the specialized nature of the work, agents must meet strict hiring standards , which include educational requirements such as accounting courses. To ensure compliance, taxpayers must trust that the system is fair and equitable and noncompliant taxpayers are held accountable.