article thumbnail

Illinois CPAs offer accounting scholarships

Accounting Today

The Illinois CPA Society and its CPA Endowment Fund have begun accepting scholarship applications for the 2024-2025 academic year.

article thumbnail

Friday Footnotes: PwC Slashes Partner Class; Accounting Firm Rescues Dog; Do We Still Need CPAs? | 4.19.24

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. The Big Four accounting firm is considering adding about 85 U.S.

cpas 91
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

State CPA Societies in Action: Tennessee Society of CPAs

CPA Practice

State CPA Societies in Action is a series of articles spotlighting the varied educational, advocacy, networking and professional activities of the state CPA societies across the U.S. TSCPA is the premier professional association for CPAs in Tennessee,” said Kara Fitzgerald, CPA, President/CEO of TSCPA.

article thumbnail

Now the Profession Is Losing Experienced Accountants Too

Going Concern

Here we are again talking about the accountant shortage. Mark Maurer at Wall Street Journal wrote today about a young man named Omer Khokhar who realized after six years in accounting that he was done. The article title: “Job Security Isn’t Enough to Keep Many Accountants From Quitting.” ” Ruh-oh.

Account 113
article thumbnail

AICPA Says EIN Process Takes Too Long

CPA Practice

In a recent letter submitted to the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) expressed concerns with the timing currently involved with the procedure for business entities organized in the U.S.

cpas 106
article thumbnail

Attn Illinois University Students: Check Out These Scholarships

Going Concern

Fresh press release for you straight from the source: Aiming to aid accounting students and increase the pipeline of future certified public accountants (CPAs), the Illinois CPA Society and its charitable partner, the CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois, are now accepting scholarship applications.

article thumbnail

AICPA Launches Quality Management Practice Aid for Accounting and Auditing Practices

CPA Practice

The American Institute of CPAs has released a new practice aid to help accounting professionals create a system of quality management (QM) for their firm’s accounting and auditing practice. Establishing such a system is a requirement of new AICPA QM standards, and the effective date for compliance is December 15, 2025.

audit 52