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Professionals on the Move – Nov. 2024

CPA Practice

Aprio Expands Real Estate Practice with Strategic Hire of Industry Leader James Lockhart Aprio, a top 25 business advisory and accounting firm, is strategically expanding its real estate practice with the addition of James Lockhart as a real estate tax partner based in the firm’s New York City office.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: BTFO PCAOB; Did the CPA Exam Evolve Without Academia? | 4.28.25

Going Concern

The situation could intensify as increasing numbers of experienced finance employees reach retirement age and the number of college graduates with accounting degrees continues to decline. Before we advise our clients, we needed to introspect and transform our own business practices, he stated.

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New York CPAs Elect Liren Wei as President of State Society

CPA Practice

LLP in Flushing, New York, began his one-year term as president of the New York State Society of CPAs ( NYSSCPA ) on June 1, making him the 104th president of the NYSSCPA. Wei began his accounting career 29 years ago as an entry-level staff accountant.

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This One Chart Shows Just How Boned the Accounting Profession Is

Going Concern

The authors compared accounting degrees to computer science degrees completed in the state of New York between 2010 and 2020 which is how we ended up with this chode. As of January 1, 2022, 65,164 are licensed CPAs in New York State (see the New York State Education Department, Office of the Professions, [link] ).

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Withum Introduces CEO-elect Pat Walsh to Succeed Bill Hagaman

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Walsh has over 30 years of public accounting experience, specializing in corporate taxation, income tax accounting, international taxation, and tax structuring. A Seton Hall University graduate with an accounting degree, he also attended New York University, Leonard N.

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Fordham University and Deloitte Offer Scholarships for Accounting

CPA Practice

There is an urgent and long-term need to create racial and ethnic equality in accounting, business, and society more broadly, and I am delighted to see this collaboration between the Deloitte Foundation and Fordham University and the resulting opportunity it presents for participating students,” said Roger G. Arrieux, Jr.,

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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

Going Concern

Thanks to the widespread distribution efforts, 7,780 accounting students, graduates, and young professionals under the age of 35 who were pursuing or had pursued accounting degrees and careers—including CPAs and non-CPAs—completed the survey, including 3,287 full- or part-time students. Find it, and other ICPAS insights, here.

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