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The 2023 AICPA Trends Report Shows Things Are Looking Up For Accounting Grad Numbers! JK They Suck

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Says the AICPA, bachelor’s degree completions in accounting dropped 7.8% Master’s degree completions also fell in 2021–2022 (-6.4%) but the percentage decline is significantly less than in 2019–20. 65,035 total accounting degrees completed for 2021-22.

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In ongoing accounting crunch, where to go for sales tax help?

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More generally, accounting talent pool concerns are pressing even for accounting firms , as enrollment rates of accounting students continue to fall. The accounting education pipeline is drier than ever even as accounting degrees require many additional course hours. There were about 1.65 in 2022, up 1.3%

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In 2019, Academic Researchers Tried to Answer the Question ‘Is Accounting a Miserable Job?’

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Stumbled across this interesting paper by authors Paul Madsen and Jeffrey Piao today and thought it worth sharing despite its age (2019). Misery in accounting is timeless after all. Whether accounting is a miserable job is an empirical question that has not been carefully evaluated previously. Hope the AICPA is reading this!

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Russell Goldberg Inducted Into University of Central Florida College of Business Hall of Fame

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In his illustrious career of nearly 35 years, he has always prioritized giving back to the organization and nurturing the next generation of accountants coming out of UCF. Russell serves on the College of Business Dean’s Advisory Board and is an active member of the Dixon School of Accounting Advisory Board.

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This One Chart Shows Just How Boned the Accounting Profession Is

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The authors compared accounting degrees to computer science degrees completed in the state of New York between 2010 and 2020 which is how we ended up with this chode. The clear conclusion is that there has been a declining trend in the number of accounting degrees awarded in New York over recent years.

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No One Will Be Surprised to Hear CPA Exam Candidate Numbers Are Down in Every Way the Numbers Can Be

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As you may already know the 2023 AICPA Trends report is out , here’s our earlier write-up on how many accounting degrees were completed for the 2021-22 period covered in the new report (saving you a click: it’s 65,035). decrease 2019-2020 2.4% decrease 2018-2019 6.2% Where’s the tsunami?

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The Accounting Talent Shortage is Not New, You Guys

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A record 68,639 students graduated with accounting degrees in 2010. Nearly 4 in 10 accounting graduates hired last year by CPA firms had master’s degrees, compared with 26 percent in 2008. By contrast, 43 percent of graduates hired had bachelor’s degrees, down from 56 percent in 2008. This is a decrease of 2.8%

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