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

CPA Practice

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. You don’t have to be a CPA.

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

Going Concern

note: the following is penned by Bob Jennings CPA, EA for his Taxspeaker.com newsletter. 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. This is not a bad thing.

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Fixing the Balance Sheet

Withum

Being able to get an overview of a financial statement quickly is important to determine if additional time should be allocated to a thorough review. This is one of the skills my students will learn this semester in my Baruch College Introduction to Managerial Accounting course. Buy it, read it and enjoy it!

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

Going Concern

There is apparently a single undergraduate accounting course offered at Yale : ACCT 270a, Foundations of Accounting and Valuation: Modern accounting practices and their use in distinguishing value creation from value redistribution. A CPA-attorney will never have trouble finding work.” Juniors and seniors only.

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Teaching Two Courses This Semester

Withum

I will teach the Baruch course in the classroom, where I will interact with the students and, hopefully, fire their imaginations. Accounting is not all spreadsheets and numbers. To prove it, look at any public company’s financial statement and count the pages with numbers and those primarily with words.