Accounting education

The Big Four firm hosted approximately 80 local students on April 8 to network and discuss the profession over a Brooklyn Nets basketball game.

The Top 20 firm will supply one-time, $5,000 grants to diverse accounting college students to bolster the talent pipeline.

The American Institute of CPAs' 2021 Trends Report found that the diversity of accounting graduates hired by U.S. firms increased nearly five percentage points in 2020.

Teens need to hear about the wonderful opportunities available in the profession of public accounting.

Surgent Accounting & Financial Education launched Surging Auditors, an addition to its series of online, gamified courses offering continuing education credit to users.

Professional accountants have an important role in driving better tax education.

When it came to the CPA exam, I made the decision to tackle it while I was in school.

Alumni John and Carol Almeter’s donation will support two funds to help offset accounting students' tuition and invest in future educational technology and resources.

The one-time, national scholarship initiative, supported by the Black CPA Centennial Fund, will provide financial support for CPA exam-related expenses for Black and African American accounting students.

A test for accounting students and their parents who are already CPAs can help decide whether to go into public or private accounting.

The annual program provides up to $10,000 and a paid internship to 10 diverse accounting students pursuing CPA licensure.

The Virginia Society of CPAs announced an expansion of its ethics courses for CPAs, accounting and finance professionals.

The Deloitte Foundation Accounting Scholars Program will fund $30 million in scholarships for students pursuing a fifth-year master's degree program in accounting from select Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accredited colleges and universities, including the W. P. Carey School of Business at ASU.

Kelly Richmond Pope, a documentary filmmaker and accounting professor at DePaul University in Chicago, wants to transform the way accounting is taught.

The CUNY college, located in the Bronx, will debut its new school July 1, offering the first business school at any public college in the Bronx and Westchester County.

The New Jersey Society of CPAs' yearly awards honor local professionals who "demonstrate exceptional work in or support of New Jersey's accounting profession."

Surgent Accounting & Financial Education launched Max the Tax, the first entry in a series of online, gamified courses offering continuing education credit to users.

Surgent Accounting & Financial Education renamed (and increased the amount of) its university scholarship award, honoring former vice president Paul Wiese, who passed away in 2021.

Surgent Accounting & Financial Education's new Study Companion app is designed to teach CPA exam candidates in small “microbursts” of time on their smartphones.

Accounting educators were honored for their educational resources based on the new CPA Evolution accounting curriculum developed by the AICPA and NASBA.