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

CPA Practice

But they also overwhelming said it’s boring, it’s stuffy, you do taxes or audit. That’s it, you sit at a desk all day and crunch numbers, and that’s not true either, particularly if you’re in public accounting or doing consulting work for clients. 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

Going Concern

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. Suggestions.

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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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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.