Accounting education

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.

Twenty-nine diverse college students marked the tenth annual class to graduate from the three-day internship preparation course.

The Center for Audit Quality began a new initiative to bring more young people into the accounting profession, particularly from Black and Latino backgrounds.

Over a quarter of Wake Forest accounting grads end up at one of the four largest firms.

The New Jersey Society of CPAs awarded $1,200 each to 10 more of its members to help offset tuition costs in the program's second year.

More than 80 members of the New Jersey Society of CPAs visited local high schools as part of the 2021 CPA Career Awareness program.

The Center for Audit Quality and the American Accounting Association are making changes to their Access to Audit Personnel research partnership program.

The institute released a report describing the essential competencies it sees as necessary for all entry-level accountants.

Derek Christensen, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, received the award for accounting standard-setting research.