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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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The 2023 AICPA Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits report (short: Trends report) was released last week and spoiler alert, it’s dark. Says the AICPA, bachelor’s degree completions in accounting dropped 7.8% This is all anyone cares about anyway right?

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

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For respondents, the staffing struggle also meant curtailing business growth (19.23%), more errors in sales tax calculation (17.58%), more frustration from existing staff (21.43%) and, perhaps scariest, a growing lack of confidence in being prepared for an audit (22.53%). million accountants and auditors in the U.S. in 2022, up 1.3%

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Friday Footnotes: The PCAOB-to-Practice Pipeline and Audit Quality; Ball Extension; Tim Ryan’s Replacement | 1.12.24

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million in audit fees in 2022.) How did Deloitte, the auditing heavyweight watching over Tingo’s books, miss a scam that Hindenburg, an outsider, called out as painfully obvious? Audit Do former regulators improve the quality of audits? Audit Do former regulators improve the quality of audits?

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Number of Accounting Grads Continues to Shrink

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post-secondary accounting degrees fell sharply in the 2021-22 academic year, according to a biennial American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) report on trends related to accounting graduation rates, the CPA Exam and hiring demand by accounting firms. The number of students earning U.S. and 8.4%, respectively.

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State of the Accounting Profession 2022 Via the AICPA Trends Report

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As I snarkily mentioned last week , the AICPA has finally released its much-anticipated 2021 Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits (or Trends , for short) report [PDF here ], a behemoth data dump of accounting industry stats first released in 1971 and released every two years since 2009.

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MNCPA to Educators: “We Do Not Need New CPAs Who Have Additional College Credits; We Need More CPAs, Period.”

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When evaluating the decision to pursue legislation, the MNCPA board focused on attracting students to the accounting degree and, ultimately, CPA certification. A decline in CPAs is affecting smaller cities, counties and school districts that are unable to find a CPA to perform their audits.

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Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Pride; KPMG Gets Snubbed; EY Goes on a Poaching Spree | 6.3.22

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The Financial Accounting Standards Board adopted CECL in 2016, prompted by criticism that banks had booked losses too slowly in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Life at Deloitte US (@lifeatdeloitte) June 1, 2022. EY US (@EY_US) June 1, 2022. KPMG US (@KPMG_US) June 1, 2022. PwC US (@PwCUS) June 2, 2022.

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