Going Concern
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Master’s degree completions also fell in 2021–2022 (-6.4%) but the percentage decline is significantly less than in 2019–20. 65,035 total accounting degrees completed for 2021-22. Since accounting graduate numbers peaked in 15-16, here’s the difference by year compared to prior year.
TaxConnex
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
For respondents, the staffing struggle also meant curtailing business growth (19.23%), more errors in sales tax calculation (17.58%), more frustration from existing staff (21.43%) and, perhaps scariest, a growing lack of confidence in being prepared for an audit (22.53%). million accountants and auditors in the U.S. There were about 1.65
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CPA Practice
OCTOBER 3, 2023
in 2024, while audit and assurance services will see starting salaries likely go up an average of 3.8% next year, according to a CPA Practice Advisor analysis of public accounting pay data provided by specialized staffing firm Robert Half. Audit and assurance services Senior manager/managing director: 4% Manager: 9.4%
CPA Practice
AUGUST 30, 2023
Pretty much overwhelmingly they said it was because you have to have an accounting degree and a CPA, which isn’t true. But they also overwhelming said it’s boring, it’s stuffy, you do taxes or audit. There’s a lot more to it than doing audit and tax. You don’t have to be a CPA.
Going Concern
MAY 2, 2023
Our favorite Aussie professional services expert Edmund Tadros at Australian Financial Review has written about Deloitte and EY bringing more than 800 warm bodies into the country to staff areas like audit and cybersecurity where talent is scarce. Let’s see what he said. In the U.S.,
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. A decline in CPAs is affecting smaller cities, counties and school districts that are unable to find a CPA to perform their audits.
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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