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Year in Review 2021
Way to go.
This year is one you’ll never forget. From navigating a new normal in the classroom, landing internships, discovering your preferred accounting pathway and remembering what’s important about life, you never gave up and found ways to grow and learn.
You pushed through the unknown and took the necessary steps to define your future.
It’s time to look back and celebrate this year’s bright spots.
Each year, hundreds of students are awarded prestigious AICPA Legacy Scholarships funded by the AICPA Foundation. This year, 75 students and CPA candidates also received financial support to help cover some of the costs associated with taking the CPA Exam or with covering educational expenses due to COVID-related monetary hardships.
Want to be considered for a 2022 AICPA Legacy Scholarship? Applications opened December 1 and close on March 1, 2022.
The path to becoming a CPA requires time, effort and dedication. Fortunately, there’s a slew of CPA professionals and experts thrilled to cheer you on. From learning about the endless accounting career paths, how to prepare for the CPA Exam and the evolving profession, over 1,000 students learned valuable skills to prepare for a career in accounting.
- How to Get a Scholarship: Tips for Standing Out
- CPA Exam Section-Specific Webinar: BEC
- CPA Exam Section-Specific Webinar: AUD
- CPA Exam Section-Specific Webinar: REG
- CPA Exam Section-Specific Webinar: FAR
- CPA Career Spotlight: Sports Accounting
- All about the CPA Exam Blueprints
- CPA Career Spotlight: Entertainment
- How Does CPA Exam Scoring Work?
- Navigating the CPA Exam
- Practicing Across State Lines
- CPA Exam Q&A with NASBA
- How a CPA Exam Question is Created
- Maximize Your Momentum: Get the Most Out of the 2021-22 School Year
- Getting Started with the CPA Exam
- Find Your Accounting Fit
- CPA Evolution – What Aspiring CPAs Need to Know
If you missed a webinar or need a refresher, check out this year’s webinars on-demand.
No matter where you are on your way to CPA, you handled it like a pro by taking direction from our top Need-to-Know News articles this year:
- Landing a great internship: Prepare for the first big step on your career path.
- Highlight technology skills to stand out in your job search: Professionals offer six tips to help you tell potential employers what you know.
- How to explain pandemic-caused résumé gaps: Learn the tips to overcome gaps in your resume from the pandemic and how you can reclaim your career.
- What is CPA Evolution?: If you plan to take the CPA Exam in 2024 or later, make sure you’re familiar with the CPA Evolution initiative.
- What to do (and not do) in a professional setting: These tips will help you ace interviews and impress new supervisors.
- Closing the Gap: How to Meet the 150 Hour Requirement: To become a CPA, you need 150 credit hours, but you only need 120 credit hours for an undergraduate degree. That leaves a 30-hour gap that you need to fill, but how and where you do it is up to you.
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You might have questions about taking and passing the CPA Exam but we’re here to help you along your journey. Check out our CPA Exam Hot Topic video series to get answers we often receive from exam candidates.
Interested in learning about tips and tools to help you pass the Exam? Visit our Exam overview page to get started.
Becoming a newly licensed CPA in today’s workforce offers you greater opportunities to take on new responsibilities traditionally assigned to more experienced staff. To help with these projects and tasks, incoming CPAs will need to possess deeper skill sets, more competencies and greater knowledge of emerging technologies. That’s why the CPA licensure model is changing in 2024.
Through a joint effort of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the CPA Evolution initiative aims to transform the CPA licensure model to recognize the rapidly changing skills and competencies the practice of accounting requires today and will require in the future.
Check out our resources to learn more about the CPA Evolution initiative and how it may affect your journey.
- What is CPA Evolution? (Article)
- Changes to the CPA licensure model are coming (Article)
- CPA Evolution Overview (Webinar)
- CPA Evolution: What Aspiring CPAs Need To Know (Webinar)
Learn more about CPA Evolution
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If you missed October’s Instagram story takeover with Jaclyn Badeau, CPA, CGMA, MBA, EQ Certified, watch the highlights today to learn what it’s like to work as a consultant.
Licensure and state requirements
Have you heard? Each of the 55 US jurisdictions has its own Board of Accountancy that is responsible for licensing the CPAs who practice in that state/jurisdiction. Check out the 2021 updated requirements you’ll need to fulfill based on your state or territory.Upload your resume to our global career hub and put yourself on the radar of top employers all over the country seeking professionals like you.
