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CPA Firms Are No Longer Full of CPAs

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Just weeks after the profession got in a tizzy about private equity-owned firms telling staff to remove CPA from their email signatures and, in some cases, LinkedIn profiles , INSIDE Public Accounting has dropped figures on the average number of staff with CPAs at the hundreds of public accounting firms that report their data to IPA.

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Friday Footnotes: CPAs Disappearing From CPA Firms; Grant Thornton Tries to Win Grant Thornton | 7.11.25

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Public Accounting Trends Data Reveals The CPA License Is Losing Ground [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] The CPA credential remains a cornerstone of the profession, but new data indicate its prominence is steadily declining. Between 2020 and 2024, the average percentage of staff holding CPA licenses across all firms dropped from 56.0

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PCAOB Gives Chinese Audit Firm the Boot Over Rules Violations

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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) revoked the registration of a Chinese audit firm on Nov. First, on multiple occasions, the accounting firm failed to timely report the participants in its issuer audits on PCAOB Form AP, in violation of PCAOB Rule 3211, Auditor Reporting of Certain Audit Participants.

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One Quarter of Firms Say They’re Offshoring, Another 12 Percent Plan to Start

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In “Offshoring for CPA firms: The hows and whys,” JofA throws out some figures on outsourcing — both foreign and domestic — based on responses from its MAP survey and sticks to the official line about how the CPA talent shortage is forcing these poor firms to look elsewhere for talent.

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The CPA Firm Growth Strategy: From Compliance to Consulting

Speaker: Rita Keller - President of Keller Advisors, LLC

Join Rita Keller, seasoned CPA firm management strategist and consultant, for an insightful discussion on: Why change is now more important than ever How to convince your partners to move out of complacency and embrace new challenges Learn how to overcome the battles you will face with technology, talent, growth, and client services February 16th, (..)

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Scandal Somehow Gets More Scandalous; Deloitte Denied in Court; Withum Embiggens in Florida | 11.8.24

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We’re still getting a lot of recruits who are remote and coming from the big firms who are just burnt out. They don’t even have time to sit for their CPA exam because they’re working so many hours.” “It made recruiting a lot easier,” Rojas says. Lovesac to settle accounting violation suit brought by SEC for $1.5

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AICPA News – June 2025

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reported increased levels of applications in 2024, up from 43% of programs seeing application growth in 2023. Undergraduate accounting enrollment increased 12% in fall 2024 compared to fall 2023. Peterson also served as a key liaison with state CPA societies and facilitated small firm roundtables nationwide.