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Letters to the Editor: CPAs Give Their Perspectives on Why No One Wants to Be an Accountant Anymore

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The numbers don’t lie: of 658,267 actively licensed CPAs in 53 of the 55 licensing jurisdictions, less than 1% are Black (2020 data), a number that has remained largely unchanged in 40 years. It wasn’t until 2015 that a woman became CEO of a Big 4 accounting firm for the first time. CPA firms are white.

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Friday Footnotes: RTO Isn’t Going So Great; KPMG Wins Something; What Auditors? | 5.19.23

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ICYMI I Love Accounting. GC ] Benjamin Wann, CMA, CSCA, MBA, PMP, CPA wrote a little something about the thing we all love to hate. At its core, accounting is a challenging career that requires growth and learning and can usually pay pretty well. So I Had to Leave. [ and Singapore, which has not fought PCAOB inspections.

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