Going Concern

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you’re a high school student and future accounting major hoping to receive your undergraduate education from a friendly chatbot, we’re sorry to say that won’t be happening any time soon. There were ten questions for the Introductory Financial Accounting and 10 for the Advanced Financial Accounting course units.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Is accounting too hard? That is the question posed by Dr. Josh McGowan, CPA on Twitter: Is the accounting major too difficult? At many universities, accounting courses (especially Principles I & II) have some of the lowest GPAs compared to other disciplines. accounting. — Anyway, that’s the question.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 8, 2024

Marquette University’s #32 ranked undergraduate accounting program* has deployed a mentoring project that seeks to help first year accounting students make sense of the language of business. “We She understood nothing. “I She found that most students were confused about the same thing that puzzled her at first: industry lingo.

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Xero

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

I was excited to sit down at Xerocon Nashville recently with Ashley Francis, a CPA with almost 25 years of experience, who has become an accounting expert on using artificial intelligence. What is the industry like now versus when you started as an accountant? Ashley builds prompts and uses AI to automate routine tasks.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 8, 2022

2010) has penned an article for Yale Daily News that argues — quite well — why Yale needs an accounting program. There’s nothing wrong with the trades, in fact if you do the math many plumbers make more per hour than early-career public accountants (ouch again). Accounting is a trade.” Juniors and seniors only.

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Going Concern

JULY 24, 2023

This deep dive was inspired by earlier research on student perceptions and attitudes toward accounting, especially attitudes among Black and Hispanic high school and college students [ PDF of those findings here ]. Other themes emerged among students who ultimately chose not to pursue accounting. the 150 credit hour requirement).

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Going Concern

AUGUST 30, 2023

Here’s all that information plus some extra details in graphic form for those who prefer visuals: via this handy Texas State Board of Accountancy PDF that explains everything candidates need to know about this amendment to the Texas Public Accountancy Act And even more info! This is copy pasted directly from the PDF linked above.

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Xero

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Accounting has been revolutionised many times over with the emergence of new technology. From calculators to Excel spreadsheets, accountants wouldn’t have gotten far if they weren’t willing to adapt for the good of their practices and their clients. . Family business. Two years later, Ravi entered the fray.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 11, 2024

The AICPA & CIMA have opened the application period for the EDGE in Teaching Awards and Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award. The two awards highlight accounting educators at the college level for their outstanding achievements in the field, and for their contribution to shaping the best new talent for the profession.

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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. Jackie Cardello During the panel discussion, “Accounting Across Generations: Assessing the Current State of the Industry,” the question, “What do we have to change to rebuild the talent pipeline in the accounting profession?”

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FraudFiles

JANUARY 11, 2022

When you need to find lost or hidden money, forensic accountant Tracy Coenen is the detective you want on your side. Consider her a financial crime fighter: part accountant, part fraud investigator. Tracy utilizes background checks, spreadsheets, and financial paper trails to trace money through a complex web of entities and accounts.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 21, 2023

According to published reports , fewer than 100,000 people take the certified public accountant exam each year; about half fail. University enrollment in accounting courses is also dropping. Both the number of candidates and the number of those who passed has also fallen in recent years.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 22, 2023

There has been much debate in certain corners of the accounting profession lately about whether the 150-hour rule for CPA licensure has contributed to the pipeline of accountants drying up in recent years —that and the subpar starting pay in public accounting and the long hours required to work, especially during busy season.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 10, 2024

This year’s honorees are Tracie Miller, PhD, CPA, chair of the accounting program at Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio, and Wendy M. This prestigious annual award honors full-time college educators who are distinguished for excellence in teaching and have achieved national prominence in the accounting profession.

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Wendy Tietz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Anyways, I created a few Wordles for early in the Introductory Financial Accounting course. These Wordles use words that are common to most, if not all, first chapters in introductory financial accounting textbooks. If you follow my blog, you know that I am a game enthusiast and that extends into my teaching.

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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. And so do professors in accounting programs. hours to 15.5

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CPA Practice

MAY 14, 2024

As the accounting profession continues to grapple with a shortage of new CPAs and fewer accounting graduates , an independent national advisory group has published six draft recommendations in a new report on what the profession can do to restock its pipeline with young talent.

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Accounting Insight

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Next up in the spotlight is Mindful Education, specialists in o nline accounting courses and apprenticeships. At Mindful Education we create award-winning online accounting courses and apprenticeships which set a new standard in the digital delivery of education. . What do you do? Find them on stand D4!

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Withum

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This is one of the skills my students will learn this semester in my Baruch College Introduction to Managerial Accounting course. The course aims to teach students how to determine what data is needed, how to use and apply the data, understand its reliability and how timely the data should be.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 15, 2023

The EDGE in Teaching Award, established by the AICPA in partnership with Grant Thornton, celebrates educators who show excellence in accounting education, dynamic teaching, groundbreaking techniques, and engagement in the classroom. It blends a multitude of things, such as accounting technical skills and technology skills. “It

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Withum

AUGUST 28, 2024

The FDU course is titled Auditing Concepts and Methods. This is a graduate-level course. The Baruch course is Introduction to Managerial Accounting. This undergraduate course is required for all business majors who are not accounting majors. Accounting is not all spreadsheets and numbers.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 26, 2024

Second-round voting for this year’s Accounting High Accountant Bracket Challenge ends at 10 a.m. The eight brackets comprising 64 “teams”—plus a bonus tax bracket of eight challengers—were revealed by Accounting High on March 18. G Suite Accounting Region Practice Bracket First-round scores by number of votes 1.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

AICPA Shares Plan to Strengthen Accounting Pipeline According to the American Institute of CPAs ‘ 2023 Trends Report, bachelor’s degree completions in accounting dropped 7.8% Win STEM recognition for accounting Interest in professional careers starts with exposure and awareness.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 11, 2022

These businesses have their financial advisory needs served by hundreds of thousands of small firm accountants and CPAs nationwide. Small business has unique needs for accounting services: primarily tax and advising, and secondarily day-to-day accounting needs to act as de-facto controllers and decision makers.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Nationally Ranked Accounting Firm Welcomes New Forensic and Litigation Principal Windham Brannon , an INSIDE Public Accounting Top 200 Firm, recently welcomed Kevin Bennett as a Principal for the firm’s Forensic and Litigation Services practice in October 2023. Johnny Welborn, Texas Tracy Willard, Maine Christophe Wilson, N.C.

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Wendy Tietz

MARCH 28, 2025

This week, Im giving a presentation on ways to integrate ESG into introductory accounting at the AAAs Sustainability in Accounting conference. Introductory financial or managerial accounting is a great place to help students see how accounting connects to […]

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