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Effective September 1, You Can Sit For the CPA Exam in Texas With 120 Units

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Another state has pushed to allow prospective CPAs to sit for the exam with just a bachelor’s degree worth of units and that’s good ol’ Texas. Effective September 1, future CPAs can sit for the exam with 120 units of education. First day to accept AOIs under the new education requirements.

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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. Holly Hawk, PhD, CPA, CGMA. “It

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ABC Tournament 2nd Round Voting Ends Soon

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Xero Education Category Media Region Content Bracket First-round scores by number of votes 1. Accounting High Podcast defeated 9. The Accounting Podcast defeated 13. Accounting High Podcast 4. The Accounting Podcast vs. 5. The Abundant Accountant Courses Bracket First-round scores by number of votes 6.

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

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Broken out by demographics, even higher rates of Black and Hispanic students say they considered accounting before choosing a different field of study. Asked about their experiences with introductory accounting courses, only 1 in 3 non-accounting majors who considered accounting said the content was interesting or engaging.

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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 is apparently a single undergraduate accounting course offered at Yale : ACCT 270a, Foundations of Accounting and Valuation: Modern accounting practices and their use in distinguishing value creation from value redistribution. Surely no one believes this stereotype in current year?

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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.

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CPA Exam Changes and Pipeline Woes Are a Perfect Storm of Problems For the Profession

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The change to a discipline-focused CPA exam brings us to the most pressing pipeline issue – the impact that the CPA Evolution will have on enrollments in accounting programs at colleges and universities. Do these sound like subjects many accounting students learn in their typical accounting courses?

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