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Massachusetts High School Students Explore Accounting Careers at MassCPAs Summer Program

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The Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants (MassCPAs) recently partnered with Suffolk University to host two cohorts of the Accounting Careers Exploratory (ACE) Leadership Program for 26 high school students across the state.

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State CPA Society News & Updates – June 2023

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It features career-development workshops and sessions with some of the accounting profession’s most prominent influencers. Participants were selected from public accounting firms of all sizes, business and industry, government and consulting firms.

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Guy Who Works at a Firm Actually Named FML on Why Accounting Is a Great Career

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Accounting is a field with high demand, and successful accounting students are virtually guaranteed employment upon (or even prior to) graduation. I’m involved in recruiting for one of the largest accounting firms in Connecticut. Yes, accountants have incredible lifetime earning potential. . The CPA exam is hard.

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Where Have All The Accountants Gone?

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The additional year of college education required for CPA exam eligibility adds to the financial strain, further diminishing the attractiveness of an accounting career to potential entrants. Many accounting firm owners, in an attempt to maximize profits, have historically kept staff wages relatively low.

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New AuditClub Passes Help CPA Firms and Companies Find Talent

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Murdock is a licensed CPA who began his public accounting career with Deloitte in North Carolina where he spent nearly six years achieving the position of audit manager. CPA firms and companies are at a crossroads with greater accounting and auditing complexity and record turnover driven by a mobile and empowered workforce. “We

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

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Talent Why Graduates Aren’t Hot on Accounting Careers: Low Starting Pay, Onerous Testing [ Wall Street Journal ] For Connor Verrett, an economics major and entrepreneurship minor at Washington & Lee University who expects to graduate this month, that roadblock was among the factors he considered in eschewing an accounting career. “It

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State CPA Societies in Action: Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs

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Founded in 1897, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) is the second-oldest CPA organization in the U.S. They are also evaluating how they currently engage young people across the state, and are looking to engage students as early as freshmen in high school to drive their interest in accounting careers.