Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Accounting Remains Hot Career Choice!

The number of students who graduated with accounting degrees in the 2007-08 school year surpassed the previous year’s record level, according to a new report by the AICPA.

More than 66,000 achieved bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting, 3.5 percent higher than in 2006-07.

This represents the largest number of graduates since 1972, the year the AICPA began tracking the data, according to the report, 2009 Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits.

http://www.aicpa.org/download/news/2009/ACCOUNTING-DEGREES-CONTINUE-HISTORIC-UPWARD-TREND.pdf