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

Going Concern

Smaller firms cannot pay competitive salaries because the graduates must be expensively retrained in small business accounting needs. This circle is caused by the power wielded by the Big 4 firms over educators in the form of accreditation in college accounting programs, administered by the AACSB. September 12, 2021.

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CPA Exam Changes and Pipeline Woes Are a Perfect Storm of Problems For the Profession

Going Concern

Do these sound like subjects many accounting students learn in their typical accounting courses? Many accounting degree programs have gone largely unchanged this millennia apart from some added Excel assignments and data analytics courses sprinkled in. They aren’t in most traditional curricula. It does move.

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Texas Close to Allowing CPA Candidates to Test with 120 Credits

CPA Practice

Because CPA candidates must complete 150 semester credit hours of education—30 credits beyond the typical 120 credit hours earned in a four-year undergraduate degree— many CPAs end up spending five years in college instead of four. The bill, introduced by Republican Sen. All available evidence indicates that it makes no difference.

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