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Texas Close to Allowing CPA Candidates to Test with 120 Credits

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The Texas Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would lower the eligibility requirement for CPA candidates to sit for the CPA exam from 150 semester credit hours to 120. The bill now advances to the Texas House of Representatives for a vote. Today, SB 159 (120 hours to test leg) passed unanimously out of the TX Senate!

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Firms Hate Going Concern (Warnings, That Is); Being a Whistleblower Blows | 5.20.24

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PwC is facing legal action claiming the accountancy firm is liable for the alleged rape of a graduate employee following after-work drinks. Those numbers seem impressive compared to figures outside of Big 4 where off-brand audit firms issue going concern warnings before a company goes down only about 17 percent of the time.

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Professionals on the Move – Nov. 2023

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Ball also led the rollout of QuickBooks Online to the UK accountant market, doubling the ProAdvisor Programme in 12 months. Whitley Penn Announces New Partners Whitley Penn, a full-service accounting firm with nine locations recently announced that eight individuals will be promoted to Partner effective January 1, 2024.

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Spotlighting Women in Advisory Practice: Answering the call to accounting with Brittany Lanphier, CPA

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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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Here Are the 11 Best Online Master’s in Accounting Programs in 2023, According to Fortune

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Shortly after Fortune released its ranking of the 100 best companies to work for in 2023, which included a smattering of public accounting firms , the business magazine came out with its inaugural ranking of the best online master’s degree programs in accounting.

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Professionals on the Move – August 2023

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Li earned a BS, Accounting, and MS, Accounting degrees from the University of Connecticut. CLA Announces Advancements Across the Firm CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen LLP), the eighth largest accounting firm in the United States, recently announced that more than 800 CLA professionals were advanced to a new role.

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Southern Illinois University Wins 21st Annual Deloitte FanTAXtic National Case Study Competition

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20-21 at Deloitte University, Deloitte’s landmark campus for learning and leadership development in Westlake, Texas. “I Teams also advised on how the operations of the business would impact the investors’ personal tax situations if they choose to operate as a C corporation or as an S corporation. The national finals were held Jan.