CPA Practice

MARCH 22, 2023

The Texas Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would lower the eligibility requirement for CPA candidates to sit for the CPA exam from 150 semester credit hours to 120. Gov Patrick for passing one of TXCPAs priority legislation items of this session, which will help fuel the CPA pipeline. On to the House!!

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 30, 2023

How to fix the crumbing talent pipeline in the accounting profession is a topic on the minds of many people these days. And it popped up at a session during the first day of the 2023 Unique CPA Conference, “Bridging the Gap,” in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, IL, on Tuesday. You don’t have to be a CPA. It’s not glamorous.

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Accounting Today

JULY 5, 2023

CPA firms have been recruiting more people without accounting degrees and backgrounds as a way to fill their open jobs while expanding diversity in their workforce.

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Accounting Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The number of students earning accounting degrees keeps falling, according to the latest figures released by the American Institute of CPAs.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is of particular interest to professors, accounting department chairs, other assorted academics, and any accounting profession meteorologists who are tracking the perfect storm of pipeline problems and a completely revamped CPA exam debuting in just a few months. Now, we’re facing the CPA Evolution’s arrival in 2024.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

CPA firm leaders outlining staffing plans for the coming year can’t help but worry if they will hit their hiring goals. This concern is not misplaced: Research for the 2024 Salary Guide From Robert Half found that organizations in both public and corporate accounting are grappling with an accountant shortage.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 12, 2023

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. Master’s degrees earned at private institutions fell 10.9%

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Going Concern

AUGUST 16, 2022

.” That’s what a stakeholder told me recently when we spoke about the accountant shortage and the growing gap between students getting accounting degrees and recent graduates sitting for the CPA exam. 150 hours is the rule and accounting is nothing if not a pile of rules.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

By Andrew Argue, CPA. College graduates with accounting degrees , CPA exam takers , new entrants to the accounting workforce —all these metrics and our experience make us feel there’s a lack of interest in our industry. You can sense the collective anxiety brewing: Is our industry running low on accounting talent?

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CPA Practice

JUNE 12, 2023

Seven aspiring CPAs representing six Indiana universities were selected for this year’s Indiana CPA Educational Foundation Scholarship. This scholarship provides financial assistance to Indiana CPA Society (INCPAS) student members pursuing their accounting degree and entry into the CPA profession.

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CPA Practice

MAY 25, 2023

The Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS) has presented its Outstanding Educator Award to two Illinois accounting faculty as part of its 2023 awards program. Accounting educators are instrumental in stewarding the next generation of leaders into the profession,” says Geoffrey Brown, CAE, president and CEO. Madeline K. Trimble, Ph.D.,

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Although the accounting talent shortage seems like something that just popped out of nowhere and couldn’t possibly have been predicted, oh, a decade ago, I feel compelled to remind everyone that we here at Going Concern saw this coming. From Is There Really a Shortage of Entry Level Accountants? OK ready for the prophetic bit?

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Perusing The CPA Journal as one does when one is tasked with the onerous burden of reporting on happenings in a profession in which so few things happen, I saw this discussion on CPA Evolution by Nina Terranova Dorata, PhD, CPA and Vincent J. Fitting really, as it encapsulates how boned the profession is. What are we looking at?

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Going Concern

MAY 9, 2023

So far it seems dwindling accounting graduate numbers in the Philippines are mostly affecting in-country businesses and firms, still something worth keeping an eye on. The group added that the country has produced just around 199,000 CPAs in the past 100 years. Non-CPAs of course starts a bit lower, Php 12,000 to Php 15,000.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 29, 2023

So a guy named Brian Kelleher who works for the hilariously named FML CPAs has written an opinion piece for the Hartford Courant entitled “Opinion: Accounting is a fantastic career — despite common misconceptions.” I’m involved in recruiting for one of the largest accounting firms in Connecticut.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 3, 2023

next year, according to a CPA Practice Advisor analysis of public accounting pay data provided by specialized staffing firm Robert Half. Robert Half’s salary guide for 2024 was released on Monday, featuring starting salary projections for a plethora of roles in accounting and finance.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 8, 2023

Recruiting and employee retention have topped the priority list of businesses at large in the recent past, but for the accounting industry, it has been a primary focus for most of the last decade. Competition for accounting talent is fierce.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Accounting & Financial Women’s Alliance and Accounting MOVE Project have released their Best Firms for Women list and while some names might prompt a hearty who?? The Accounting MOVE Project report finds firms embracing the new super skill of career sustainability are rising to the occasion.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 18, 2024

Top 500 accounting firm JHM Certified Public Accountants, based in Chattanooga, is expanding its presence in eastern Tennessee by combining with Harting, Bishop & Arrendale (HBA) in Cleveland, TN. The combined firm will operate under the name of JHM Certified Public Accountants. million in its most recent fiscal year.

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Going Concern

MARCH 17, 2023

Minnesota Society of CPAs has sent a message to educators in the state regarding legislation that would introduce an alternative pathway to CPA licensure and the message to these stewards of the next generation of accountants is clear: no one is trying to eliminate MAcc programs.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Let’s talk about starting salaries in public accounting. Let’s assume a student has an undergraduate accounting degree, a MAcc degree, and has passed all 4 sections of CPA exam. Accounting. — Dr. Josh McGowan, CPA (@Jmcgowan3838) September 19, 2022. 55K isn’t it. Throw some numbers out.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 6, 2023

So customers have filed more than a half-dozen proposed class actions against the NFL’s Tom Brady, accounting firm Prager Metis and Bankman-Fried as an individual, among others. 2024 CPA Exam Blueprints released [ Journal of Accountancy ]. Employers added 223K jobs in December, but cut 1,100 in accounting [ Accounting Today ].

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Accounting Insight

MARCH 8, 2023

Trouble finding qualified staff continues to be a top concern for accounting firms of all sizes, according to the AICPA’s 2023 Top Issues Survey. Your firm obviously needs a certain number of licensed CPAs if you provide auditing services. Beyond assurance engagements, many services don’t required workers to have a CPA license.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 19, 2023

Professional association leaders warn that accounting staff shortages are popping up nationwide, impairing financial reporting at the same time that Congress has been pushing for more transparency in financial data , which will require even more staff work. So what’s changed in the supply chain for governmental accountants?

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 18, 2023

In an effort to support a racially and ethnically diverse student population and help strengthen the pipeline of diverse CPA talent, the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business has announced its collaboration with the Deloitte Foundation in the Deloitte Foundation Accounting Scholars Program (DFASP).

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 11, 2022

note: the following is penned by Bob Jennings CPA, EA for his Taxspeaker.com newsletter. These businesses have their financial advisory needs served by hundreds of thousands of small firm accountants and CPAs nationwide. According to the SBA , small business generates about 44% of GDP in America and 2/3 of new jobs annually.

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Going Concern

JUNE 15, 2023

Prior to 2007 I had little idea the accounting profession existed. That was the year I started working in CPA review, Going Concern was founded two years later. This cross-disciplinary knowledge covers accountancy, business law, corporate finance, human resources, information technology, marketing/sales, and operations.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 24, 2022

Misery in accounting is timeless after all. Plus it’s relevant given the ongoing accounting pipeline problem and concerns about accountant shortages as the paper talks about how the stereotype of “the miserable accountant” actually draws people to the profession for whom misery is a good fit.

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BuildYourFirm

APRIL 28, 2020

Koltin, CPA, CGMA. For twenty consecutive years, Allan has been named by Accounting Today as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the accounting profession. For the past six years, Allan has also been named by CPA Practice Advisor as one of the Top 25 Thought Leaders in the profession.

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CPA Practice

MAY 8, 2023

Shortly after Fortune released its ranking of the 100 best companies to work for in 2023, which included a smattering of public accounting firms , the business magazine came out with its inaugural ranking of the best online master’s degree programs in accounting.

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Going Concern

APRIL 20, 2022

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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CPA Practice

JUNE 5, 2023

Professionals on the Move is a round-up of promotions and hiring announcements in and around the accounting profession. Shekel is a registered CPA and Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV). He received bachelor’s degrees in economics and in finance and accounting from the University of Maryland. Shekel holds an M.B.A.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

EY piled more than $700mn of extra debt on to its global operating business to deal with the costs of the failed plan to spin off its consulting arm, according to newly filed accounts. Between a wave of retirees and a drop in the number of people graduating with accounting degrees, the whole profession is struggling to staff up. “We

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Check out this week’s top remote accounting candidates. Check out this week’s top remote accounting candidates. P.S. We’re off for Labor Day, hope you are too.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 7, 2023

2022 was not exactly a banner year for accounting but if you don’t count the collapse of FTX, it wasn’t terrible for public perception either. Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA — who btw thinks CPA Evolution might kill accounting as a stand-alone major — tweeted his predictions for the year ahead.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 11, 2024

Kavanagh joins CohnReznick as Assurance Partner CohnReznick LLP, one of the leading advisory, assurance, and tax firms in the United States, recently announced that Charles (Chuck) Kavanagh , CPA has joined the firm as an assurance partner. The boost follows the hire of public accounting veteran Jay Trumbower as CEO in late 2022.

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CPA Practice

JULY 5, 2023

Liren Wei, CPA, CGMA, managing partner of Wei, Wei & Co., LLP in Flushing, New York, began his one-year term as president of the New York State Society of CPAs ( NYSSCPA ) on June 1, making him the 104th president of the NYSSCPA. Wei began his accounting career 29 years ago as an entry-level staff accountant.

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