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It’s Official, All the Complaining Is Directly Contributing to the Pipeline Problem

Going Concern

AICPA CEO of Public Accounting and Going Concern favorite Sue Coffey swung by the Accounting Today podcast recently to talk about what else, the pipeline problem. Those two issues are affecting all college-educated professions, not just accounting. No, they’ve got to figure out why accounting.

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Why Fraud—Yes, Fraud—Could Boost the Accounting Talent Pipeline

CPA Practice

In a supplemental analysis of educational and labor market data of more than half a million accounting graduates in the U.S.,

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AICPA Says it Has a Plan to Fix the CPA Talent Shortage

CPA Practice

One of the biggest questions currently being asked by many throughout the accounting profession is, “How can we make accounting more appealing to students?” There’s plenty of accounting jobs out there that need to be filled— more than 300,000 accountants and auditors have left the profession in the past few years.

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Guide to accountant responsibilities

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Additionally, depending on the type of firm, accountants may be involved in more advisory-centric responsibilities, such as analyzing financial data and providing clients with strategic guidance and recommendations on how to reduce costs and boost profitability. Enter CAS 2.0. Most recently, CPA.com launched the  CAS 2.0

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Is Turning Work Down?; TIL the President of Nigeria Worked at Deloitte | 9.11.23

Going Concern

Meet a 29-year-old accountant whose ‘resentment’ only climbed after her firm raised her salary from $60k to $90k as she made millions for them. Heredia, 29, started an accountant job at a small Tampa, Florida firm, with the promise that her $60,000 base salary would rise to $100,000 after one year. I was a security guard.

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Friday Footnotes: A (Fake) Day in the Life at Deloitte; DYNAMIC Merger For Grant Thornton; CPA Awareness | 12.9.22

Going Concern

Check out these remote accounting jobs at Accountingfly. Companies “would need to continually educate new auditors on their businesses and risks”, it added. Early evidence suggests the accountants’ objections were wide of the mark. Do you have a wandering eye? Never going into the office sounds pretty great.

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