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‘Building Knowledge To Last a Lifetime’

3BL Media

By Candace Higginbotham The good news : 35 states now require high school students to pass a personal finance course to graduate. The challenge : Local school systems and teachers aren’t always equipped with robust curriculum and other resources to provide engaging financial education instruction to students.

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It’s Time for State Boards of Accountancy to Move to the 120/150 Educational Requirement for Licensing as a CPA

Steven Mintz

Tearing Down Barriers to Entry The most talked about issue in accounting education today is whether the 150-hour requirement to qualify for a CPA license that has existed for many years creates a barrier to entry that should be revisited. Whichever path they choose, ethics education should be part of the program. The largest U.S.

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Is the 120/150-Hour Requirement the Answer to Barriers to Entry into the Accounting Profession?

Steven Mintz

Recent changes in the laws in many states have moved to a bifurcated system in which students must have 120 credit hours of college education to sit for the CPA exam and 150 credit hours (225 for quarter schools) to be licensed as a CPA. Expanding the Knowledge Base for CPAs. Business methods have become increasingly complex.

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3 Reasons Companies Welcome Disruption

Daniel Burrus

Often, contractors don’t even waste time worrying about properly measured right angles and level floors. No stop-the-presses news here: The American public education system is shackled with faltering funding mechanisms, not to mention being woefully out of date in curriculum development, particularly with regard to science and commerce.

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When the Economy Gets Squeezed by Too Little Energy

Gail Tverberg

The educational system is part of complexity. 2] The big danger, as energy consumption per capita falls, is that the economy will start losing complexity. It now seems to be in danger of falling below this level. In fact, the drop in trade after the 2008-2009 recession never rebounded to the former level.

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Leaky Pipelines or Broken Scaffolding? Supporting Women’s Leadership in STEM

Stanford Social Innovation

For example, the now-widely held understanding that investing in girls’ education lifts up families and communities and that countries that support girls’ education can benefit economically shows that narrative change is possible. We can learn from parallel efforts. Scaling Up Early Career Interventions.

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Honoring and Supporting Women of Color Leaders

Stanford Social Innovation

Women of color are significantly underrepresented in corporate leadership roles and face systemic obstacles in the nonprofit sector where, even with advanced education and experience, they are less likely to hold leadership positions than white men, white women, or men of color.