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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. According to NASBA, as of August 2022, there are 665,612 licensed CPAs covering 54 jurisdictions (NASBA 2022). What are we looking at?

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The Philippines is Running Low on Accountants and US Firms Should Be Worried

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The group added that the country has produced just around 199,000 CPAs in the past 100 years. “That’s a big problem now of the profession because several of the CPAs here in the Philippines are migrating abroad, or they are working online for foreign companies,” said PICPA national president Erwin Alcala. The salary.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Firms Hate Going Concern (Warnings, That Is); Being a Whistleblower Blows | 5.20.24

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Thanks to the widespread distribution efforts, 7,780 accounting students, graduates, and young professionals under the age of 35 who were pursuing or had pursued accounting degrees and careers—including CPAs and non-CPAs—completed the survey, including 3,287 full- or part-time students. There were 8.5

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Episode 068: A conversation with Allan Koltin

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For twenty consecutive years, Allan has been named by Accounting Today as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the accounting profession. In 2019, he was recognized as the “Third Most Influential” in the profession. You can no longer just graduate with an accounting degree. Twitter l LinkedIn l Website.

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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). Today we’re going to look at CPA exam candidate numbers. decrease 2019-2020 2.4%

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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.

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Professionals on the Move – June 2023

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Oulman joins the AuditBoard board of directors after most recently serving as EVP and CFO at Medallia, where she led its successful IPO in 2019. LL.M, BDO USA, LLP Molly Griffiths, RSM US LLP Rose Jardim, CPA, Jardim & Marotta LLC Adnani Johari, CPA, CGMA, MBA, Brighthouse Financial, Inc. in October of 2021.

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