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CPA Firm Managing Partner Weighs in on How to Rebuild the Talent Pipeline

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“The one who did choose accounting, obviously we didn’t ask this question, but to the others we asked: Why didn’t you choose accounting? Pretty much overwhelmingly they said it was because you have to have an accounting degree and a CPA, which isn’t true. Firms are looking at non-traditional hires and non-CPAs.

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College Accounting Programs Are Taxpayer-Funded Training Programs for the Big 4 and Other Such Muckraking

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The AACSB only accredits those schools providing the Big 4 demanded curricula, eliminating from accreditation any school offering alternative small-business accounting education tracks to the exclusion of nearly ½ of American businesses. Replace “publish or perish” evaluation rules in accounting education with “practice and perform” reviews.

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Texas Close to Allowing CPA Candidates to Test with 120 Credits

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But in an article for Accounting Today that was published earlier this month, Blake Oliver, a CPA who specializes in accounting technology and is the founder of Earmark CPE, estimated that the cost of the 150-hour rule is more than $2 billion. The bill, introduced by Republican Sen.

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