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AICPA Announces 2023 Leadership Academy Graduates

CPA Practice

The Leadership Academy features career-development workshops and sessions with some of the accounting profession’s most prominent leaders, which this year included AICPA Chair Okorie Ramsey, CPA, CGMA, PMP, NACD.DC; and AICPA President and CEO Barry Melancon, CPA, CGMA. This year’s class included representatives from 25 states.

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Letter to the Editor: Life in Public Accounting Doesn’t Add Up For Young Professionals

Going Concern

In it the author covers their introduction to accounting, the impact the pandemic had on their goals, and the all too familiar feeling of watching your peers make buckets of money in other careers while you grind away in public. ” When I was a junior in high school, I took my first accounting class. I loved the class.

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AICPA Recognizes Top 2022 CPA Exam Performers with Elijah Watt Sells Award

CPA Practice

Victoria Saravia Bazoberry (New York), a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Business Administration in accountancy, is employed with KPMG LLP in New York, NY. Sells, one of the first CPAs in the U.S., was active in the establishment of the AICPA and played a key role in advancing education within the profession.

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Congrats to Xero’s 2022 NABA Scholarship recipient

Xero

At Xero, we’re passionate about mentoring and encouraging the next generation of accounting, small business, and finance leaders. One of many industry associations we are proud to support is the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA). What motivated you to pursue accounting as a career path?

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AICPA News – Dec. 2023

CPA Practice

AICPA & CIMA Registers First 100 Apprentices and Signs 17 Employers to Apprenticeship Program in Inaugural Year The AICPA & CIMA recently announced that it has registered over 100 apprentices in its Registered Apprenticeship for Finance Business Partners program within the inaugural year of the program.

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Andersen Expands Presence in SoCal, Adds New Offices in Des Moines and Pittsburgh

CPA Practice

and established new offices in Des Moines, Iowa, and Pittsburgh, Pa. Hamilton Juffer & Associates and HJN Advisors in Des Moines; and Chemel Kornick & Mooney (CKM) in Pittsburgh join the firm. Andersen has increased its ranks by a total of 45 professionals in the U.S. Vertical Advisors in Newport Beach, Calif.;

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AICPA News – Jan. 2024

CPA Practice

AICPA & CIMA Registers First 100 Apprentices and Signs 17 Employers to Apprenticeship Program in Inaugural Year The AICPA & CIMA recently announced that it has registered over 100 apprentices in its Registered Apprenticeship for Finance Business Partners program within the inaugural year of the program.

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