CPA Practice

MAY 14, 2024

As the accounting profession continues to grapple with a shortage of new CPAs and fewer accounting graduates , an independent national advisory group has published six draft recommendations in a new report on what the profession can do to restock its pipeline with young talent.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 30, 2023

Another state has pushed to allow prospective CPAs to sit for the exam with just a bachelor’s degree worth of units and that’s good ol’ Texas. Effective September 1, future CPAs can sit for the exam with 120 units of education. December 15, 2023 – Last day to take a section of the current CPA Exam AUD, BEC, FAR, REG.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 30, 2023

Jackie Cardello During the panel discussion, “Accounting Across Generations: Assessing the Current State of the Industry,” the question, “What do we have to change to rebuild the talent pipeline in the accounting profession?” You don’t have to be a CPA. Firms are looking at non-traditional hires and non-CPAs.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 21, 2023

University enrollment in accounting courses is also dropping. Even if you don’t need a CPA to handle your sales taxes (in fact, it’s a specialty that many CPAs don’t handle), there’s a good chance you still don’t have the internal expertise to effectively manage it in-house.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 8, 2022

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. Surely no one believes this stereotype in current year?

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Going Concern

AUGUST 23, 2023

The change to a discipline-focused CPA exam brings us to the most pressing pipeline issue – the impact that the CPA Evolution will have on enrollments in accounting programs at colleges and universities. Do these sound like subjects many accounting students learn in their typical accounting courses?

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Going Concern

JULY 24, 2023

Broken out by demographics, even higher rates of Black and Hispanic students say they considered accounting before choosing a different field of study. Asked about their experiences with introductory accounting courses, only 1 in 3 non-accounting majors who considered accounting said the content was interesting or engaging.

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