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Accounting Professors Receive Honors from Illinois CPA Society

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The Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS) has presented its Outstanding Educator Award to two Illinois accounting faculty as part of its 2023 awards program. Jurgens, CPA, is an assistant professor at Harold Washington College in Chicago, where she has been teaching since 2015. Madeline K. Trimble, Ph.D.,

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The Beef Between the AICPA and Minnesota Over the 150 Hour Rule Heats Up

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Last week we told you about HF 1749 and SF 1660, bills introduced to the Minnesota legislature that would allow for a second pathway to CPA licensure of 120 units and two years of experience. The proposal would make it harder for Minnesota CPAs to practice across state lines, physically and virtually.

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The Talent Pool Is Shrinking

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I received the following press release from the Illinois CPA Society. They are unveiling the findings from research they have done relating to the decline in CPA candidates. It seems that accounting students don’t see the value in devoting the time and energy to become a CPA. ” – Victoria Arlen.

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Illinois Will Soon Let You Sit for the CPA Exam With 120 Units, Should All States?

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.” 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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Friday Footnotes: The PCAOB-to-Practice Pipeline and Audit Quality; Ball Extension; Tim Ryan’s Replacement | 1.12.24

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million in audit fees in 2022.) How did Deloitte, the auditing heavyweight watching over Tingo’s books, miss a scam that Hindenburg, an outsider, called out as painfully obvious? Audit Do former regulators improve the quality of audits? Audit Do former regulators improve the quality of audits? Tingo paid $1.6

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