In response to widespread concern that some students avoid becoming CPAs due to the time and cost associated with ...

Definitions of accounting deployed today are observably narrow, outdated, and increasingly unsuitable for realizing the full ...

Despite the increasing demand for accountants, the number of accounting students and graduates has been consistently ...

The United States has long been an attractive destination for students from other countries who want to pursue higher ...

While appreciating the impact on cybersecurity and business resiliency, organizations continue to confront patch management ...

Many recent articles, in this publication and others, have narrowly cited the 150-hour requirement for CPA licensure as a ...

What if students who are required to take a core accounting course could study more alluring topics in that core course, such as sustainability and forensic accounting, and learn how to read financial ...

Currently, in order to be licensed, CPA candidates must earn a bachelor’s degree (usually 120 hours), earn 30 hours beyond the bachelor’s degree (which may entail completing a master’s degree), and ...

The supply of new accounting students and CPAs—the pipeline to the profession—has been a topic of growing concern over the past several years, driven by research indicating that barriers to entry were ...

The CPA Journal is broadly recognized as an outstanding, technical-refereed publication for accounting practitioners, educators, and other financial professionals. Edited by CPAs for CPAs, it aims to ...

While many in the profession have expressed concern about the current 150-hour model’s effect on the shrinking pipeline to the profession, less attention has been paid to the challenges some students ...

While NASBA and the AICPA have long supported the 150-hour pathway to CPA licensure, opinions differ as to whether the 30 credits beyond the bachelor’s degree produce more qualified professionals. The ...