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CPAs Provide Six Ways to Replenish the Talent Pipeline

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Because CPA candidates must complete 150 semester credit hours of education—30 credits beyond the typical 120 credit hours earned in a four-year undergraduate degree— many CPAs end up spending five years in college instead of four. We want to be clear that we very much value education.

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

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Smaller firms cannot pay competitive salaries because the graduates must be expensively retrained in small business accounting needs. This “Circle of Death” has led to a rapid demise of the very firms advising small business, the most critical part of the American business growth cycle. September 29, 2022. September 12, 2021.

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

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There’s nothing wrong with the trades, in fact if you do the math many plumbers make more per hour than early-career public accountants (ouch again). Anderson, first he said, “There’s no better training for a lawyer than accounting. Then, he offered me a scholarship from funds he had raised from the accounting firms.

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Texas Close to Allowing CPA Candidates to Test with 120 Credits

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There has been much debate in certain corners of the accounting profession lately about whether the 150-hour rule for CPA licensure has contributed to the pipeline of accountants drying up in recent years —that and the subpar starting pay in public accounting and the long hours required to work, especially during busy season.

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