Definitions of accounting deployed today are observably narrow, outdated, and increasingly unsuitable for realizing the full ...

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

In response to widespread concern that some students avoid becoming CPAs due to the time and cost associated with post-bachelor’s degree licensure requirements (leading to what has been called the ...

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 ...

Many accounting leaders and observers have pointed out the need to expand the pipeline to the profession and suggested ways this could be accomplished. One such proposal is to have accounting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United States has long been an attractive destination for students from other countries who want to pursue higher education, with over 850,000 international ...

Despite the increasing demand for accountants, the number of accounting students and graduates has been consistently declining in recent years. Many accountants have also left their jobs in public ...

Many recent articles, in this publication and others, have narrowly cited the 150-hour requirement for CPA licensure as a significant barrier to attracting skilled talent to the accounting profession.