Why Students Opt for Accounting (or Don’t)

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Are accountants a threatened species?

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Extinction’s still a ways off, but the numbers of CPAs are in serious decline. Between 2010 and 2021, the number of people taking and passing the CPA licensing exam fell 36 percent, from more than 50,000 to about 32,000.