This article examines the need for advanced accounting education to meet profession demands, indicating significant implications for future accountants.
The article focuses on issues related to accounting education. The increasing reliance on advanced education represents a sensible reaction to the growing demands of the profession, and the expectation of an even more complex environment in the future. To provide effective audit assurance and serve as sound business advisors, public accountants must be capable of much more than linking financial statements to underlying evidence. They must be capable of seeing a business through the CEO's eyes — understanding how it creates value, recognizing its opportunities, developing a keen awareness for its risks. And all of this must be done within a world where the network of information flow is changing, and becoming richer, at an ever-increasing pace. All of these circumstances point to the wisdom of a 150-hour program for those who would be public accountants.
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