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

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That’s sort of what’s happening in the profession right now over proposed legislation in Minnesota that offers an alternative to the traditional 150 units of education required for licensure. That’s not to say Minnesota sucks, rather they are going up against the behemoth that is the AICPA.

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MNCPA to Educators: “We Do Not Need New CPAs Who Have Additional College Credits; We Need More CPAs, Period.”

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Minnesota Society of CPAs has sent a message to educators in the state regarding legislation that would introduce an alternative pathway to CPA licensure and the message to these stewards of the next generation of accountants is clear: no one is trying to eliminate MAcc programs.

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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. ” Iannazzo, a Minnesota native, was recently promoted to office managing partner at the EY Minneapolis office, which has nearly 800 employees. “We’re now seeing all companies think about AI: How does that impact my business?”

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Texas Close to Allowing CPA Candidates to Test with 120 Credits

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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. If we are going to live by our principles, we should eliminate it.

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