The modern world doesn’t work without CPAs, and there are no CPAs without accounting educators. This conference is designed for you. The Accounting Educators Symposium is an annual event that connects you with other educators, updates you on accounting industry trends, and equips you to help your students succeed. It’s about giving you the knowledge you need to better help your students succeed.
Topics to be covered: MACPA Update, State Board Update, Changes to the CPA exam, Insights into the Pipeline of Accounting Students, ESG, and Ethics. We will also have a panel of recent graduates.
If you are an MACPA Educator member…please attend the conference for free as our guest.
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Speaker: Rebekah Olson, CPA, Chief Executive Office, Maryland Association of CPAs
This will be a Professional Issues Update from the Maryland Association of CPAs.
Dr. Jan L. Williams, Ph.D., CPA, Associate Professor, University of Baltimore, Merrick School of Business
Jan will update everyone on what the State Board has been up to.
Recent Grad Panel
Speakers: Nicolette Vaccaro, CPA, Staff Accountant, HeimLantz CPAs & Advisors
Ethan Schless, CPA, Audit Senior Associate, CohnRezncik, LLP
Josh Fuhrman, Assurance, Associate, CohnReznick, LLP
Matthew Arovas, CPA, Senior Audit Associate, KPMG
We will learn from students that have recently graduate from college to see what they wish they had known / learned in school.
Speaker: Dr. Jan Taylor, CPA, CGMA, PhD, Academic in Residence and Senior Director, Academic and Student Engagement, AICPA & CIMA
As the number of students choosing to major in accounting or choosing a CPA pathway have declined significantly over the past several years, what initiatives are being employed to attract both college and high school students to the accounting profession, to support those already in the pipeline, to promote a CPA culture on college campuses, and to address other issues impacting the CPA pipeline? This session will discuss the recently released, evergreen AICPA's Pipeline Acceleration Plan, developed to address the profession's pipeline concerns and share some specific AICPA initiatives.
Speaker: James McKinney, Ph.D., Major in Accounting, Minor in Econometrics, University of Maryland
Speaker: Charles Russo, Ph.D., CPA, CMA, CVA, Associate Professor of Accounting and Director of the M.S. in Accounting and Business Advisory Services, Towson University
Speaker: Lourdes White, D. B. A., Lockheed Martin Professor of Accounting, Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore
Accounting ethics education has typically focused on "what" the decision maker should choose as the right course of action. In this presentation we will focus on "how" to implement the ethical decision once students know what the right thing to do is. Based on the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) framework, we will examine an experiential learning approach that develops students' ability to convince their opponents and potential allies to fix the wrongdoing.