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

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That’s it, you sit at a desk all day and crunch numbers, and that’s not true either, particularly if you’re in public accounting or doing consulting work for clients. We have not done a good job of messaging that to future generations and those who might be interested in accounting. “We

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Professionals on the Move – Dec. 2023

CPA Practice

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. David Winter, Ga. Denise Zaharoff, Ga.

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Yale Grad and Grant Thornton Lawyer Argues The Case For an Undergraduate Accounting Program at Yale

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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). Anderson, first he said, “There’s no better training for a lawyer than accounting. Then, he offered me a scholarship from funds he had raised from the accounting firms.

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

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The AACSB only accredits those schools providing the Big 4 demanded curricula, eliminating from accreditation any school offering alternative small-business accounting education tracks to the exclusion of nearly ½ of American businesses. Replace “publish or perish” evaluation rules in accounting education with “practice and perform” reviews.

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Texas Close to Allowing CPA Candidates to Test with 120 Credits

CPA Practice

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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