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Listen Up, Young Accountants: Career Advice For Sticking Out Those Early Years

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Instead, Maginnis said you have to give things time to play out because your next engagement might be with great people and a terrific client that ends up defining your career. But too often, young CPAs flee public accounting for what they believe are the greener pastures of industry and miss out on that learning and development.

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State CPA Societies in Action: Ohio Society of CPAs

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State CPA Societies in Action is a series of articles spotlighting the varied educational, advocacy, networking and professional activities of the state CPA societies across the U.S.] However, there has been a slight pickup of pre-CPAs, which has been encouraging.

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

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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. But the AICPA said today it has a framework in place to fill that CPA pipeline back up.

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How Auditors Are Seizing the Day with Artificial Intelligence

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Auditors, like so many others today, are seizing the opportunity to transform how they work by adopting artificial intelligence. These findings make it critical for those of us in the audit profession to help the next generation understand the vision and opportunities that await those who choose this career path as auditors embrace AI.

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New AuditClub Passes Help CPA Firms and Companies Find Talent

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AuditClub, the Audit Service Center and creator of the innovative auditors-as-a-service model, has announced new and enhanced weekly passes that allow members to subscribe to AuditClub professionals with an experience level geared to the support they need during the upcoming busy season and beyond.

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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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Accountants Are the Referees of Business, Says Guy Who Would Know

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There’s another article about the accountant shortage today and this time it’s in Insider. “Accountants and auditors are to business as those people in the black-and-white-striped shirts are to sports. “Without accounting and without finance, there are no rules to the game.

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