Accounting education

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.

Courses and certifications will include AI, RPA, cybersecurity, data analytics and visualization, financial planning and analysis, sustainability and leadership.

Enrollment for undergraduate accounting majors increased for the third year in a row last fall, according to newly released figures.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill into law that adds a pathway to CPA licensure, effective Feb. 11.

The Illinois CPA Society named 39 students to the Mary T. Washington Wylie Internship Preparation Program Scholars.

Accounting's top influencers reveal what — if anything — they would do differently in their careers.

As part of this year's Top 100 Most Influential People survey, Accounting Today asked, "If you could go back, what is one thing you would change in your career?"

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Pan African Federation of Accountants.

A group of firm partners were asked what qualities they look for most in new hires. Their answers provoked some pushback from accounting students.

Nine organizations wrote to the Department of Education expressing opposition to rules excluding accounting from recognition as a professional degree program.

A study found that students underestimate the audit profession's attractive aspects and overestimate its less appealing aspects.

The American Accounting Association is calling on the Department of Education to reverse course after proposing to remove accounting from its definition of "professional degree" programs.

The American Institute CPAs, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and state CPA societies voiced their objections to a government proposal.