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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. There are a lot of high schools that offer basic accounting courses to get kids interested. Accounting is not a well-marketed profession.

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

Going Concern

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

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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. An accounting degree in 2022 ignores the needs of companies providing nearly ½ of American GDP and 2/3 of new job creation. September 29, 2022.