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Accounting Professors Receive Honors from Illinois CPA Society

CPA Practice

The Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS) has presented its Outstanding Educator Award to two Illinois accounting faculty as part of its 2023 awards program. Accounting educators are instrumental in stewarding the next generation of leaders into the profession,” says Geoffrey Brown, CAE, president and CEO. Madeline K.

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Illinois Will Soon Let You Sit for the CPA Exam With 120 Units, Should All States?

Going Concern

” That’s what a stakeholder told me recently when we spoke about the accountant shortage and the growing gap between students getting accounting degrees and recent graduates sitting for the CPA exam. 150 hours is the rule and accounting is nothing if not a pile of rules. THAT’S CRAZY.”

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Friday Footnotes: The PCAOB-to-Practice Pipeline and Audit Quality; Ball Extension; Tim Ryan’s Replacement | 1.12.24

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. And take our 2024 Predictions for the Accounting Profession survey ! Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Tingo paid $1.6

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Firms Hate Going Concern (Warnings, That Is); Being a Whistleblower Blows | 5.20.24

Going Concern

PwC is facing legal action claiming the accountancy firm is liable for the alleged rape of a graduate employee following after-work drinks. Illinois CPA Society has issued a new pipeline report: Re-Decoding the Decline. Can someone send us those slides ? Please and thank you. Find it, and other ICPAS insights, here.

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The Beef Between the AICPA and Minnesota Over the 150 Hour Rule Heats Up

Going Concern

What’s at risk: A legal review of the proposed changes has been conducted by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). As the member organization for all state boards of accountancy in the United States, NASBA spelled out key consequences for Minnesota licensees and firms.

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The Talent Pool Is Shrinking

RitaKeller

I received the following press release from the Illinois CPA Society. It seems that accounting students don’t see the value in devoting the time and energy to become a CPA. Is it worth it to become a CPA, in public accounting, when average partner compensation in $5 to $20M firms is half a million?