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Accounting Professors Receive Honors from Illinois CPA Society

CPA Practice

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.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The Real Reason 150 Hours Exists; KPMG Pensioners Call Partners Immoral, Despicable | 1.22.24

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I don’t mean that in the snarky “tell us again how you walked uphill both ways in the snow to the CPA exam testing gym” way. They made the intermediate accounting curriculum harder than it needed to be and used junior professors who weren't as experienced to make the class even harder.