Accounting education

Accounting undergraduate enrollment grew 8.9% in spring 2026 year-over-year, continuing steady growth for the third consecutive year.

If firms want more employees to become CPAs, they need to start treating exam support as part of talent development.

Of the CPA exam candidates who completed testing in 2025, only six passed all four sections on the first attempt to qualify for the award.

The Education Department's refusal to characterize accounting degrees as 'professional' is much more than just a rhetorical problem.

New reporting changes represent meaningful progress, but inaccurate institutional attribution will distort university-level CPA exam outcomes in the 2025 data.

Attorneys general from 25 states and D.C. are suing the administration over rules limiting loans for graduate students in accounting and other professions.

The department's final regulations on which types of professional degree programs can receive loans of up to $200,000 ruled out the accounting profession.

AI can produce analysis, but it can't build trust or relationships. If students aren't trained in those areas, they'll be unprepared for roles that matter most.

Kentucky has become the latest state to pass legislation offering an alternative pathway to qualifying for a CPA license to broaden the talent pipeline.

An experiment with having artificial intelligence write papers for a college accounting course reveals some of its current limitations.

The Institute of Internal Auditors is enhancing its Certified Internal Auditor Challenge Exam with a new experienced-based pathway pilot and updates for Global Internal Audit Standards.

The International Federation of Accountants wants accounting organizations to align with its quality management standards and offer more pathways to the profession.

Accordance launched its new Accordance for Academia program, which involves partnerships with universities to use AI to help train the next generation of CPAs.

The bills would remove the 150 credit-hour requirement and replace it wth three new pathways.

The Institute submitted a letter in response to the Department of Education's plan to exclude accounting from its definition of "professional degree" programs.

The National Association of Black Accountants and the Tennessee Society of CPAs are partnering to address the talent shortage.

Accounting educators aren't immune to the challenges that are sweeping the profession, says Yvonne Hinson, president of the AAA.

The independent nonprofit is devoted to helping professionals move past hype and into concrete practical implementations of artificial intelligence technology.

The American Institute of CPAs introduced a new program to identify and develop the skills needed by early-career CPAs to succeed in an AI-driven market.

Intuit has created a Career Pipeline Program, with a commitment to upskill a million accounting students over the next five years.