Why Accountants Don't Become CPAs

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Show Notes

1:56 – David talks specifics on Bookkeepers.com

5:54 – The IMA Is Beefing With the AICPA and NASBA Over the Future of Accounting Education

https://www.goingconcern.com/the-ima-is-beefing-with-the-aicpa-and-nasba-over-the-future-of-accounting-education/

6:22 – AICPA, NASBA launch CPA Evolution Model Curriculum - Journal of Accountancy https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2021/jun/aicpa-nasba-launch-cpa-evolution-model-curriculum.html

IMA pushes back on CPA Evolution

https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/ima-pushes-back-on-cpa-evolution

13:20 – Time commitment, relevance push people away from CPA Exam

https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/time-commitment-career-relevance-push-young-people-away-from-cpa-exam

13:40 – A CPA Pipeline Report: Decoding the Decline

https://www.icpas.org/information/professional-issues/decoding-the-decline

17:58 – Let us know your take on the CPA – if you have it, if you don’t, if you’re thinking about it …Tell us why you love it, hate it, or feel nothing about it! Call us at 202.695.1040!

18:40 – We’ve got voicemail! Thank you Chris, from Guam!

21:54 – SPAC Deals Slow Dramatically After Move by SEC | Los Angeles Business Journal
https://labusinessjournal.com/news/2021/jun/21/spac-deals-slow-dramatically-sec-changes/

22:20 – SPAC IPO Market Slowly Resurfaces With Play-it-Safe Accounting
https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/spac-ipo-market-slowly-resurfaces-with-play-it-safe-accounting

23:10 – The Lordstown Motors Mirage: Fake Orders, Undisclosed Production Hurdles, And A Prototype Inferno

https://hindenburgresearch.com/lordstown/

23: 51 – Top Lordstown Motors executives out as SPAC-backed startup teeters

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/top-lordstown-motors-executives-out-as-spac-backed-startup-teeters

26:35 [Expensify] WhatsApp + Splitwise = Expensify.cash (now open for early access)

https://community.expensify.com/discussion/8302/whatsapp-splitwise-expensify-cash-now-open-for-early-access

33:06 – The Expensify Discussion on Blake’s Twitter:
https://twitter.com/BlakeTOliver/status/1405745448380366848

37:15 – AmEx opens first business banking accounts

https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/38256/amex-opens-first-business-banking-accounts

39:10 – Novo, a neobank for SMBs, banks $41M

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/16/novo-a-neobank-for-smbs-banks-41m/

40:20 – Unit Raises $51M To Expand Products, Integrations

https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2021/unit-raises-51-million-dollars-expand-finserv-products-integrations/

43:28 – Gusto makes first acquisition, buying Ardius to expand into R&D tax credits – TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/17/gusto-makes-first-acquisition-buying-ardius-to-expand-into-rd-tax-credits/

46:00 – Sunsetting of the QuickBooks Commerce standalone product (formerly TradeGecko)

https://commerce.intuit.com/register

50:18 – Fastly: The Right Way to Apologize for an Outage | SaaStr

https://www.saastr.com/fastly-the-right-way-to-apologize-for-an-outage/

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