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Salary Offers to New Accounting Grads Hit the Wall

Compensation for accounting majors rises less than 2%.

The staffing crisis is so-o-o-o-o over.

The overall average salary offer made to 2009 bachelor’s degree graduates is $49,353—nearly identical to the 2008 average of $49,300.

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NASBA Urges SEC to Withdraw IFRS Roadmap

Talk turns to international “convergence.”

States are apparently resisting the move to a globally-mandated set of accounting rules for fear of ceding authority to foreign regulators. And, since Obama appointees clearly have more urgent work to do, IFRS will probably be back-burnered for now. So the question is: Is IFRS dead? Should it be?

The NASBA news release:

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Moving to convergence with, rather than adoption of, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is the right path for the Securities and Exchange Commission to be following, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy has told the SEC. READ MORE →

SURVEY RESULTS: CPAs love Facebook, friends, news, Twitter and LinkedIn

Early results from a new survey into how CPAs spend their time online, shows that they shop regularly and attend webinars.

But ask them what they enjoy doing online, or where they “hang out,” and you get a different picture…

This one:

This wordle.net pictograph is drawn from the verbatim responses of 137 CPAs on Feb. 19 and 20, 2009.

To get the updates and complete results, join the CPA Trendlines survey panel here.

Meanwhile, leave a comment here: Where do you like to hang out online and what do you do there?

(CPA Trendlines research by Bay Street Group LLC. Data copyright 2009 AICPA.)