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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Consulting Salaries; Accounting For Dummies; PwC Boomerangs | 3.27.23

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South Carolina’s comptroller quits after a $3.5 billion accounting error Alright, here are some other headlines for ya. The world’s largest accounting and professional services firms in terms of revenue and workforce, these prestigious firms are renowned for offering high salaries with a generous bonus structure.

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Friday Footnotes: Fired Accountant Spills the Dirty Laundry; Scandals of Yore; Gen AI For Good | 1.26.24

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Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. company, in a process riddled with conflicts of interest. AI Is your firm keeping pace?

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Friday Footnotes: CPA Exam Scares Accounting Majors Away; EY Loses Fees in China | 5.12.23

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Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Working in the Big Four seems to be more limited to just like, CFO or chief finance type roles.” The accountancy sector is no exception. Investment banking was more versatile, he said.

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150 Hour Rule: Let’s Keep Arguing About What Color the Drapes Should Be While the House is Burning Down

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Amanda Iacone at Bloomberg Tax has written the accounting niche’s 1,735th article about the accountant shortage and this time, as is often the case, the focus is 150 hours. Apparently South Carolina has joined them. Wages rose quickly in the last two years, although growth has slowed this year, Britton said.

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

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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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The 150-Hour Rule: A Case of Quantity Over Quality

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The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) considers these to be equivalent college credit hours. While CPA firms continue to have difficulty finding and retaining qualified accountants, the NASBA continues to defend the 150-hour rule. Clearly, they are not. This Act sets forth three pillars of equivalency.

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AICPA News – June 2023

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AICPA & CIMA Now Offers New Learning Tools for Accounting Professionals The AICPA & CIMA recently announced the offering of anew online learning platform to help accounting and finance professionals improve and update their skills to take advantage of a digital accelerating business environment.