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Friday Footnotes: A (Fake) Day in the Life at Deloitte; DYNAMIC Merger For Grant Thornton; CPA Awareness | 12.9.22

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Grant Thornton merges two Orlando offices as firm continues to grow in Florida [ Grant Thornton ]. A DYNAMIC office change for Grant Thornton’s CHOSEN MARKETS in Florida. Grant Thornton LLP will merge its two locations in Orlando, Florida. Firm Watch. BDO currently employs 500 people in Ireland.

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We Get to the Bottom of Why the 150 Hour Rule Doesn’t Require Specific Courses

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The scope and content of the educational program should approximate what is described in Academic Preparation for Professional Accounting Careers and should lead to the awarding of a graduate degree. Dubbed the Albers report, the 1978 version came out five years before Florida became the first state to adopt the 150-hour rule.

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Friday Footnotes: CPA Exam Scares Accounting Majors Away; EY Loses Fees in China | 5.12.23

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Talent Why Graduates Aren’t Hot on Accounting Careers: Low Starting Pay, Onerous Testing [ Wall Street Journal ] For Connor Verrett, an economics major and entrepreneurship minor at Washington & Lee University who expects to graduate this month, that roadblock was among the factors he considered in eschewing an accounting career. “It

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10 Best States to Pursue a Career in Accounting

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Virginia Total Number of Accounting Jobs Available: 4,555 Total Number of Finance Jobs Available: 3,185 Accounting and Finance Average Salary: $104,000 Average World University Rankings Accounting and Finance Score: 33.02 Finance Career Score /10: 7.48 Finance Career Score /10: 7.14

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Friday Footnotes: ‘You Can’t Be Seen As the First Person to Leave’; How Firms of All Sizes Are Using AI | 10.6.23

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At the same time, the median, inflation-adjusted pay for young accountants has stagnated, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of salary data compiled by the Census Bureau. This pay disparity is a major reason why fewer people are choosing accounting careers, threatening to worsen an already dire shortage of accountants.