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CPA Firm Managing Partner Weighs in on How to Rebuild the Talent Pipeline

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“The one who did choose accounting, obviously we didn’t ask this question, but to the others we asked: Why didn’t you choose accounting? Pretty much overwhelmingly they said it was because you have to have an accounting degree and a CPA, which isn’t true. There’s a lot more to it than doing audit and tax.

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College Accounting Programs Are Taxpayer-Funded Training Programs for the Big 4 and Other Such Muckraking

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Small business has unique needs for accounting services: primarily tax and advising, and secondarily day-to-day accounting needs to act as de-facto controllers and decision makers. An accounting degree in 2022 ignores the needs of companies providing nearly ½ of American GDP and 2/3 of new job creation.

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CPA Exam Changes and Pipeline Woes Are a Perfect Storm of Problems For the Profession

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And so do professors in accounting programs. The discipline sections replacing BEC are all new: Business Analysis and Reporting (BAR), Tax Compliance and Planning (TCP), and Information Systems and Controls (ISC). Do these sound like subjects many accounting students learn in their typical accounting courses?

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