Accounting education

This summer a couple of my columns dealt with developing a specialization, and I had a ton of feedback. One person I spoke to is a young accountant who is trying to figure out a career path with a specialization. She has about five years of experience and feels she needs to choose a specialization to be able to start the next phase of her career.

Institute of Management Accountants will award $2,500 to the grand prize winners.

Accounting students have the arduous task of learning how to prepare and analyze financial reports. Like other users of financial data, they may wonder if the numbers alone are enough to evaluate a firm.

The American Institute of CPAs has updated the “body of knowledge” document that provides information to CPA financial planners on what they should know about taxes and other matters.

Qualifying accounting and business majors will earn their fifth year tuition-free.

American Institute of CPAs teams up with the American Society of Appraisers and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors on a new designation for financial professionals who provide fair value measurement services.

55-acre campus will offer an Innovation Center, guest rooms, more.

New "Innovation Center" will focus on modern tech solutions.

National Society of Accountants seeks top U.S. accounting undergrads in financial need by April 3rd.

Online/in-person course to debut this summer.

Last month through the New Jersey Society of CPAs I was scheduled to speak to two high school classes about public accounting as a career path.

The American Institute of CPAs announced the recipients of its Effective Learning Strategies Awards: Dr. Karen Braun; Dr. Sandria Stephenson; and Dr. Charles Leflar, Katie Terrell and JaLynn Thomas.

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, also known as COSO, has introduced a self-study, on-demand learning program for attaining the COSO Internal Control Certificate.

Roger Philipp, the founder of the Roger CPA Review, has an event in his past that few of the thousands of CPA candidates who have taken his exam prep courses probably knew about: he once appeared on “The Dating Game.”

The American Institute of CPAs has signed an agreement with John Wiley & Sons to take over publishing of the AICPA’s entire catalog of finance and accounting publications.

We hired Sam out of school and he worked for us two and a half years and then we split up our firm. This was ages ago and Sy and I left our third partner to form our new firm on Jan. 1, 1974. However, there is a valuable lesson here and I think it is worth sharing. It changed the way we hired staff.

The Institute of Management Accountants said Monday that it has reached a milestone of 50,000 holders of its Certified Management Accountant credential.

Many accounting firms have robust formal learning programs for their staff early in their careers.

The Indiana Board of Accountancy approved a change Friday in its rules for renewing a CPA license, allowing competency-based education, as opposed to hours-based education, to count toward the requirement.

The Institute of Management Accountants has released an exposure draft of a proposed Management Accounting Competency Framework in an effort to fill the skills gap for accountants who choose careers in private industry.