The US Securities and Exchange Commission is currently evaluating aspects of the public company reporting framework, including whether quarterly reporting should remain mandatory or whether…
Accounting’s Influence on Governance Structures
Global Historical Lessons for the Profession
Note from Column Editor Anton Lewis: This column introduces a historical perspective on accounting’s potential to facilitate coercion and enhance subjugation—or, instead, to advance social justice.…
What Is Audit Quality?
Reflecting on PCAOB Member George Botic’s Four Pillars
What is audit quality? This is not meant as a philosophical question, but rather as one that can be answered through definitions and evidence drawn…
A Conversation with SEC Chief Accountant Kurt Hohl
Highlights from the 20th Annual Baruch College Audit Conference
The 20th Annual Audit Conference, hosted by Baruch College, New York, N.Y., on Nov. 20, 2025, once again featured the theme of “Ensuring Integrity.” Regulators,…
What Is Audit Quality?
Reflecting on PCAOB Member George Botic’s Four Pillars
What is audit quality? This is not meant as a philosophical question, but rather as one that can be answered through definitions and evidence drawn…
A Conversation with SEC Chief Accountant Kurt Hohl
Highlights from the 20th Annual Baruch College Audit Conference
The 20th Annual Audit Conference, hosted by Baruch College, New York, N.Y., on Nov. 20, 2025, once again featured the theme of “Ensuring Integrity.” Regulators,…
The Public Role of CPAs in Elective Office
A Call to Action for Meaningful Financial Stewardship
The passage of the landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Law [Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, (IIJA)] by Congress underscores the urgent need for CPAs to engage actively…
The best compliment I ever received was, “You're not the typical accountant.” I've had a very rewarding career in public accounting. Upon graduation from college,…
ICYMI | One CPA’s Experience in a Doctorate in Business Administration Program
The Journey from Practitioner to Professor
In this personal reminiscence, one accounting professor recounts her journey from public accounting into academia. Rather than taking the usual PhD, she took the sometimes…
The notion of becoming a CPA never even crossed my mind as a child. When I was 3 years old, my father passed away. My…
A Managing Partner’s Vision—Setting Goals and Executing Them
An Interview with Bill Hagaman, former Managing Partner, CEO of Withum
This article is based on an interview with Bill Hagaman, Withum's Managing Partner, CEO from 2010 to 2022, conducted by Martins Jukna-Parsons, senior accountant at…
The notion of becoming a CPA never even crossed my mind as a child. When I was 3 years old, my father passed away. My…
Accountants can deploy their technical training, skills, and experience in helping powerless persons as a way of giving back to the community. This article describes…
There are many reasons why CPAs decide to leave public accounting firms. Based on my experience, I believe some of these reasons are personal and…
The purpose of this essay is to provide some reflections about my 40-year career as an accounting educator. My focus will include the inspiration for…
How the Next Generation of CPAs Can Restore the Public Trust
A Panel Discussion on Fraud, Technology, and Audit Quality
In Brief Corporate fraud has resurfaced in the headlines, troubling those who might have believed the profession had moved past its audit failures of the…
One CPA’s Experience in a Doctorate in Business Administration Program
The Journey from Practitioner to Professor
In this personal reminiscence, one accounting professor recounts her journey from public accounting into academia. Rather than taking the usual PhD, she took the sometimes…
Voices of the Profession: Reflecting on the State of the Profession
Panel Discussion Marking the Journal’s 90th Anniversary
Editor's Note: On the occasion of the CPA Journal's 90th anniversary, Editorial Review Board Member and NYSSCPA Director-at-Large Orumé Hays convened a panel of distinguished CPAs from around the…
I grew up in the small city of Guntersville, Alabama (population 8,000), nestled in the beautiful foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. When I was born,…
ICYMI | Realizing My American Dream
It’s Amazing What CPAs Can Do
Editor's Note: The following is an extended version of an article originally published in the January 2018 print issue. I will forever say that accounting…
One of the most amazing things that CPAs can do is give other people the tools they need to realize their goals. CPAs teach their…
ICYMI | It’s Amazing What CPAs Can Do
From a Farm in Taiwan to a Firm in New York
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the February 2016 Issue of The CPA Journal. It introduced what we hope will become a regular print and multimedia series of…
Building a Diverse Professional Community
Perspectives from the Chinese American Society of CPAs
Editor's Note: On the occasion of The CPA Journal's 90th anniversary of publication, the editors asked the leadership and members of the Chinese American Society of CPAs (http://www.cascpa.org)…
Becoming Successful in Today’s Professional World
A Personal Reminiscence
Editor's Note: As we celebrate our 90th year of publication, longtime author and former NYSSCPA President Alan E. Weiner brings his perspective on how to build…
It was 90 years ago that my father started his first job in public accounting. When he died in 1976, I took over his practice.…
The Fight of a Lifetime
Telling It Like It Is on the National Debt
In Brief Joseph DioGuardi, the first practicing CPA elected to Congress, defined his career by advocating for financial accountability and fiscal responsibility from the U.S.…
Editor's Note: As we celebrate our 90th year of publication, longtime author and Editorial Board Member Sid Kess brings a rare perspective of The CPA Journal and the…
Many years ago, I graduated with a shiny new degree in accounting and landed a coveted job at a then–Big Eight accounting firm. I was…
The best compliment I ever received was, “You're not the typical accountant.” I've had a very rewarding career in public accounting. Upon graduation from college,…
My Journey as a Forensic Accountant
It’s Amazing What CPAs Can Do
Life has many unexpected turns; one such turn was the direction my career took when I was 29 years old. A single phone call from…