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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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It wasn’t until 2015 that a woman became CEO of a Big 4 accounting firm for the first time. CPA firms are white. And check out this chart from the 2021 AICPA Trends report on accounting firm demographics: via 2021 AICPA Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits report.

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

Going Concern

GC ] Benjamin Wann, CMA, CSCA, MBA, PMP, CPA wrote a little something about the thing we all love to hate. Retirement plans for both Bobby Edwards and Joe Hedrick, former partners with Edwards & Hedrick, prompted them to sell the CPA firm to Copper Advisors. ICYMI I Love Accounting. So I Had to Leave. [

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