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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. Before anyone gets too excited, note candidates still need 150 units for licensure.

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

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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?” You don’t have to be a CPA. Firms are looking at non-traditional hires and non-CPAs.

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How to address growing skills gap for sales tax compliance

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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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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). I’m pretty sure there is no one alive today who has seen a green eyeshade other than as a Halloween costume. Surely no one believes this stereotype in current year?

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AICPA News – Feb. 2024

CPA Practice

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% Meanwhile, 60% of firms surveyed reported that they expected to have the same or higher number of CPAs on staff in 2023 compared to 2022.

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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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Texas Close to Allowing CPA Candidates to Test with 120 Credits

CPA Practice

Charles Perry who is a practicing CPA, would lower the semester credit hours requirement from 150 to 120. Because CPA candidates must complete 150 semester credit hours of education—30 credits beyond the typical 120 credit hours earned in a four-year undergraduate degree— many CPAs end up spending five years in college instead of four.

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