BuildYourFirm

APRIL 28, 2020

You can no longer just graduate with an accounting degree. It now has to accounting and data analytics. It now has to be accounting and finance. I think you have to be something more than an accountant to the employer today.”. We can’t compete with it.”. .

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AccountingDepartment

APRIL 3, 2021

You don't have to have an accounting degree to make wise business decisions. Entrepreneurs running a start-up, corporate department managers, and small business owners need enough bookkeeping knowledge to understand basic financial statements.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A record 68,639 students graduated with accounting degrees in 2010. Nearly 4 in 10 accounting graduates hired last year by CPA firms had master’s degrees, compared with 26 percent in 2008. By contrast, 43 percent of graduates hired had bachelor’s degrees, down from 56 percent in 2008.

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Going Concern

MARCH 17, 2023

When evaluating the decision to pursue legislation, the MNCPA board focused on attracting students to the accounting degree and, ultimately, CPA certification. Both college accounting programs and the profession will benefit with more students enrolling in accounting programs.

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Insightful Accountant

MAY 29, 2023

The scholarship will extend the influence of the Society’s retiring President and CEO by awarding a $5,000 scholarship to a deserving undergraduate or graduate student pursuing an accounting degree in Massachusetts.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 16, 2022

.” That’s what a stakeholder told me recently when we spoke about the accountant shortage and the growing gap between students getting accounting degrees and recent graduates sitting for the CPA exam. 150 hours is the rule and accounting is nothing if not a pile of rules.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The authors compared accounting degrees to computer science degrees completed in the state of New York between 2010 and 2020 which is how we ended up with this chode. The clear conclusion is that there has been a declining trend in the number of accounting degrees awarded in New York over recent years.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As you may already know the 2023 AICPA Trends report is out , here’s our earlier write-up on how many accounting degrees were completed for the 2021-22 period covered in the new report (saving you a click: it’s 65,035). Today we’re going to look at CPA exam candidate numbers.

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CPA Practice

MAY 16, 2024

Thanks to the widespread distribution efforts, 7,780 accounting students, graduates, and young professionals under the age of 35 who were pursuing or had pursued accounting degrees and careers—including CPAs and non-CPAs—completed the survey, including 3,287 full- or part-time students.

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Going Concern

JUNE 13, 2024

They did say the salary bump will put accounting “on par with other business majors” though: EY US will increase early career compensation as part of a total rewards package that recognizes the value of a certified public accountant (CPA) career path.

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Withum

MARCH 14, 2024

In his illustrious career of nearly 35 years, he has always prioritized giving back to the organization and nurturing the next generation of accountants coming out of UCF.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 17, 2023

PICPA also announced a coming legislative update scheduled for March of 2023 that will cover Pennsylvania Gov.

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Withum

JANUARY 14, 2022

Walsh has over 30 years of public accounting experience, specializing in corporate taxation, income tax accounting, international taxation, and tax structuring. A Seton Hall University graduate with an accounting degree, he also attended New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, earning his MBA.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 30, 2023

“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. You don’t have to be a CPA.

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Withum

JUNE 18, 2024

Getting my accounting degree changed my life and becoming a CPA has been one of my greatest accomplishments. This is why I am committed to giving back to my alma mater and my community. I firmly believe that education creates a ripple effect empowering individuals, families, neighborhoods, and societies.

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Going Concern

MAY 9, 2023

Interesting because right around that time, the AICPA was observing a gap in people who graduate with an accounting degree and people who go on to sit for the CPA exam. Additionally, US accounting degree completions peaked in 2015-16 and have trended down since.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 12, 2023

post-secondary accounting degrees fell sharply in the 2021-22 academic year, according to a biennial American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) report on trends related to accounting graduation rates, the CPA Exam and hiring demand by accounting firms. The number of students earning U.S.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 30, 2024

Pay for advanced degrees, too. Number three: Create closer relationships between accountants and students. Developing talent begins with education about the various career opportunities an accounting degree or CPA can provide. Such education could also be an opportunity to diversify the accounting or CPA pipeline.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Competition for experienced talent is also an issue, as many public accounting employees leave for corporate jobs with more manageable workloads.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 5, 2023

The Society will award the $5,000 scholarship each year to a deserving undergraduate or graduate student pursuing an accounting degree in Massachusetts. On May 1, 2023, the Society announced that Pitter was retiring and Deputy CEO Zach Donah, CAE, would succeed her as President and CEO effective January 1, 2024.

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CPA Practice

MAY 30, 2023

But a huge problem the accounting profession is facing is how to get accounting students interested in becoming CPAs and taking the exam, as there has been declining interest in an accounting degree at universities—thus creating a CPA talent shortage.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 24, 2022

Whether accounting is a miserable job is an empirical question that has not been carefully evaluated previously. The second posits that misery is a consequence of initial illusory idealism about a job followed by disillusionment after exposure to work’s realities (Freudenberger 1974, 1975).

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CPA Practice

MARCH 22, 2023

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.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

From the list’s press release [ PDF ]: In the 2023 Accounting MOVE Project report, released today, a talent-starved profession receives a fresh influx of strategies and inspiration for investing in the women it must attract and retain to achieve short goals and survive long-term.

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Going Concern

MAY 2, 2023

of new hires at accounting firms do not have accounting degrees , and even that number is based on data lagging a few years behind from current day. Safe to say accounting firms are fighting each other for any skilled data analysts they can get their hands on. In the U.S.,

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Going Concern

JANUARY 7, 2023

It’s not like someone is going to get an accounting degree and fast track an exam application just to take it before it is transformed in 2024 if they aren’t already on that path. There’s just not enough eligible CPA candidates with 150 hours sitting on the sidelines like there used to be.

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Canopy Accounting

MAY 23, 2023

However, in recent years, there has been a growing trend of accountants quitting their jobs and leaving the industry altogether. And there are fewer students graduating with accounting degrees. Let's look at some data points that explain why accountants quit.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 8, 2023

Students should start to learn that it is an extremely important, gratifying, and, dare we say, exciting job.

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KROST

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This scholarship and internship program benefits ethnically diverse students pursuing an accounting degree. KROST will sponsor Amber Tabata’s internship in 2022 during busy season and AICPA will award her up to $10,000 in scholarship funds.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Let’s talk about starting salaries in public accounting. Let’s assume a student has an undergraduate accounting degree, a MAcc degree, and has passed all 4 sections of CPA exam. Accounting. — Starting salaries in #accounting have gone from B school leaders to laggards.

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Accounting Insight

MARCH 8, 2023

Trouble finding qualified staff continues to be a top concern for accounting firms of all sizes, according to the AICPA’s 2023 Top Issues Survey. Workers who may lack an accounting degree but have a business background, or bookkeeping and tax experience, may be a good fit for client accounting services and certain tax engagements.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And unemployment rates for in-demand roles, like accountants and auditors, are typically well below the national average. CPA firms are bearing the brunt of other trends, too, like the dwindling population of college students graduating with accounting degrees.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 27, 2024

And controllers manage corporate accounting departments that require CPAs for a variety of functions including tax, audit, financial analysis, financial reporting and more.

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Going Concern

JUNE 3, 2022

Class of 2022 grads entered a sizzling hot job market [ The Daily Wildcat ] A University of Arizona grad disses the House of Klynveld LOL: Nick Wilson, who received an accounting degree, said he spent “roughly six to eight weeks, with a lot of tedious time on Handshake and different firms’ websites” before getting a job offer from the public accounting (..)

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ThomsonReuters

JANUARY 28, 2022

If you’re not familiar with bookkeeping services, you can take courses online, and you do not need an accounting degree to perform bookkeeping services. If you aren’t familiar with bookkeeping or need a refresher, you can find online bookkeeping courses to get up to speed. Business tax preparation.

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ThomsonReuters

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

After being accepted at Texas A&M University Mays Business School — ranked one the most competitive business schools in the region — she progressed through her introductory business classes and then her first accounting class. Something clicked then, Lanphier says, and she found that she liked accounting.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 5, 2023

The Society will award the $5,000 scholarship each year to a deserving undergraduate or graduate student pursuing an accounting degree in Massachusetts. Pitter Presidential Scholarship , to honor the legacy of its President and CEO, who will retire at on December 31, 2023.

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