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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

Going Concern

Small business has unique needs for accounting services: primarily tax and advising, and secondarily day-to-day accounting needs to act as de-facto controllers and decision makers. The traditional Big 4 accounting firms in the United States are Ernst and Young; KPMG; Price Waterhouse Coopers(PwC) and Deloitte Touche.

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