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Talent-Strapped Down Under Deloitte and EY Are Importing Staff

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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.,

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Number of Accounting Grads Continues to Shrink

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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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Friday Footnotes: PwC Partners Get Played; Bad Accounting on the Rise; Getting to the Bottom of the Shortage | 9.1.23

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Check out this week’s top remote accounting candidates. The “big four” accounting firm reported revenue of A$3.4 However, the divestment of its government consulting business, which was responsible for roughly 20% of revenue, is likely to see revenue drop this fiscal year. billion ($2.21

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EY Survey Shows Gen Z Priorities and Pipeline Opportunities

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For instance, many students rank engagement and involvement in the local community (76%), making positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts (81%) and organizational diversity (79%) as very important to their professional future. The survey found that students are increasingly seeking to do work with greater societal impact.

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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

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PCAOB cautions firms on use of outside service providers for audit confirmations [ Accounting Today ] The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board issued a Spotlight publication Monday containing some observations and reminders for auditing firms about relying on outside service providers for electronic audit confirmations.

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State of the Accounting Profession 2022 Via the AICPA Trends Report

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By 2014 however, the benevolent overlords at the AICPA noticed a troubling statistic: despite record enrollments, this abundance of accounting students did not appear to be pursuing the CPA exam as expected. In other words, more people than ever were graduating with accounting degrees but CPA exam candidate numbers stayed the same.

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Attention, Soon-to-be-Accountants: Governments Need You

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By Girard Miller, Governing (TNS) S&P Global Ratings recently withdrew its credit ratings on 64 local governments after they failed to file financial updates on time because of staff shortages and delayed audits. So what’s changed in the supply chain for governmental accountants? Or is something else going on?