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AICPA News – Nov. 2023

CPA Practice

Yamoah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Isabel Maria Ford, University of Florida Jae Yeon Pyo, Carnegie Mellon University Jeremy Richardson, Texas Tech University Jessica Thornton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jewel O. Jefferson, Virginia Commonwealth University DMyrian Frederick, Virginia Tech Isaac L.

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AICPA Forms Advisory Group to Create Strategy to Address CPA Talent Shortage

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The advisory group will be chaired by Lexy Kessler, CPA, CGMA, mid-Atlantic regional leader for Aprio and a board member of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, a global organization jointly formed by the AICPA and The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

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Effectively Leveraging Accounting for Financial Planning Strategy

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Take advantage of the dual operational and strategic expertise of a controller that can manage accounting and build cash flow forecasts and budgets. Strengthening Teams with the Appropriate Resource Model If a company’s accountants are at maximum capacity in their current roles, it’s not ideal to force new demands on them.

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Hear Me Out, Extend the CPA Exam Window to 24 Months

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That will involve the AICPA as well as state societies, firms themselves and management accounting functions or finance functions in business. We want to find out what’s causing people to sit or not sit for the exam and then design tactics to deal with it strategically. So change is not only possible, it’s necessary.

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This Accountant Shortage Nonsense Reeks of Deja Vu

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The American Accounting Association link is dead, I’ve embedded a PDF of the paper at the bottom of this post. Students are telling us by their choice of major that they do not perceive an accounting degree to hold the same value it once did nor is it considered as valuable as certain other business degrees.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Pays High Schoolers 20 Bucks an Hour; Deloitte Cyberattacked Too; IRS on ERC | 7.28.23

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. $20 an hour, clothing stipend, meals: How a Big Four firm is trying to get teens interested in accounting [ CNBC ] By her own admission, Autumn Kimborough, 17, didn’t have a passion for accounting.