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AICPA and CIMA Accepting Applications for Accounting Educator Awards

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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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Research: Why Students — Particularly Diverse Ones — Aren’t Pursuing Accounting

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The Center for Audit Quality — the AICPA-affiliated “nonpartisan public policy organization serving as the voice of U.S. The Center for Audit Quality — the AICPA-affiliated “nonpartisan public policy organization serving as the voice of U.S. ” So here we are at round two and this is what the CAQ found.

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CPA Firm Managing Partner Weighs in on How to Rebuild the Talent Pipeline

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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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AICPA Announces the Winner of the George Krull/Grant Thornton EDGE in Teaching Award

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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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CPAs Provide Six Ways to Replenish the Talent Pipeline

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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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Professionals on the Move – Dec. 2023

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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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College Accounting Programs Are Taxpayer-Funded Training Programs for the Big 4 and Other Such Muckraking

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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.