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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. Accounting educators are instrumental in stewarding the next generation of leaders into the profession,” says Geoffrey Brown, CAE, president and CEO. Trimble, Ph.D.,

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What Would the Accreditors Say About AICPA’s ELE Program?

Going Concern

By Sharon Lassar, PhD, CPA (Florida) John J. Gilbert Professor and Director of the School of Accountancy, University of Denver Last week I raised the question of whether it is ethical to promote an educational path to CPA licensure that is (highly) susceptible to cheating.

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

Going Concern

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.