firms are hiring, but accounting enrollment has swung widely.
by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间
there’s disturbing but not disastrous information about the profession’s labor supply.
or, to look at it another way, good news and bad news.
the good news is that accounting firms are optimistic enough to foresee a lot of hiring.
the bad-but-not-disastrous news is that the incoming supply of accounting graduates may not keep up with the demand.
so much for optimism.
since 1971, when the aicpa began its study, “trends in the supply of accounting graduates and the demand for public accounting recruits,” the general trend in graduates with bachelor’s and master’s in accounting degrees has generally risen, but not evenly. growth was steady and steep through the ’70s but then evened off for 20 years. but the new millennium didn’t bring new hordes of cpas. quite to the contrary, graduation with accounting degrees rates declined. by 2006, they were down to the numbers of the mid-70s.
but the trend turned upward again and rose steeply, doubling the number of bachelor’s and master’s degrees by 2012.
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