{"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 by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research<\/em><\/p>\n are accountants a threatened species?<\/p>\n more in staffing & recruiting:\u00a0<\/strong>tax and accounting pay advancing at 5.9% pace<\/a> |\u00a0which is better: a year of education or a year of experience?<\/a> |\u00a044 critical criteria for accounting staff performance evaluations<\/a> |\u00a0four ways to propel new cpas into growing your firm<\/a> |\u00a0mike whitmire: re-think your hiring and training practices<\/a> |\u00a0what new leaders want in ownership<\/a> |<\/p>\n exclusively for pro members. <\/span><\/strong>log in here<\/a> or 2022世界杯足球排名 today<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n 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. 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 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 the lesson from these findings:<\/strong> that maybe the accounting education pipeline starts not at college but in junior high school.<\/p>\n college may be the place where potential accountants branch off into another pipeline.<\/p>\n compared with other business-related majors, accounting showed lower favorability ratings. four in 10 non-accounting business majors said that at some point, they considered going into accounting but decided not to. the numbers were even higher for black and hispanic students, 50 and 48 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n but then, only one in three of those non-accounting majors who considered accounting found the course content interesting.<\/p>\n the lesson from the findings?<\/strong> intro courses need to be as interesting or engaging as the actual profession.<\/p>\n while lack of interest was the most common reason for going into other majors, other reasons were almost as common.<\/p>\n the lesson?<\/strong> starting salaries for accountants need to be higher, and accounting majors need more support to pursue cpa certification.<\/p>\n who knows what students want more than students? here are the top kinds of support that business majors said would be extremely or very helpful in leading them into accounting.<\/p>\n the lesson?<\/strong> ask the ones taking the lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nmeanwhile, in 2020, 75 percent of all cpas reached retirement age.<\/p>\nguess where the pipeline starts<\/h3>\n
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the clog in the pipeline<\/h3>\n
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student advice<\/h3>\n
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