{"id":115778,"date":"2023-08-20t14:37:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-20t18:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?p=115778"},"modified":"2024-08-27t17:01:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27t21:01:30","slug":"why-students-opt-for-accounting-or-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2023\/08\/20\/why-students-opt-for-accounting-or-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"why students opt for accounting (or don\u2019t)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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they share their ideas for changes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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extinction\u2019s still a ways off, but the numbers of cpas are in serious decline. between 2010 and 2021, the number of people taking and passing the cpa licensing exam fell 36 percent, from more than 50,000 to about 32,000.
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\nmeanwhile, in 2020, 75 percent of all cpas reached retirement age.<\/p>\n

crunch those numbers, and what do you get? you get in big trouble. trouble for the profession, trouble for businesses, trouble for the economy.<\/p>\n

why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

why the declining interest in an accounting career?<\/p>\n

the reasons are legion, and some of them go back farther than one might imagine, according to a study, \u201cincreasing diversity in the accounting profession pipeline: challenges and opportunities,\u201d commissioned by the center for audit quality.<\/p>\n

the researchers asked 1,800 current and recent college grads majoring in some area of business questions about why they chose or did not choose a career in accounting, what encouraged or discouraged them, and what barriers they had to overcome.<\/p>\n

some of the answers were surprising, others predictable, all educational.<\/p>\n

guess where the pipeline starts<\/h3>\n

the most surprising finding: among all the business majors, those majoring in accounting were most likely to have picked that major before they started college. in fact, some were interested before they started high school.<\/p>\n