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.
Speaker: Rebekah Brown, CPA, Chief Executive Office, Maryland Association of CPAs
8:55 am
State Board Update
Speaker: Jan Williams, Ph.D., CPA, Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Baltimore
9:35 am
Break
9:40 am
Recent Graduate Panel
Speakers: TBD
11:10 am
Break
11:20 am
Pipeline Issues: Declining Enrollment and Strategies to Increase Interest in Accounting Majors
Speaker: Dr. Jan Taylor, CPA, CGMA, PhD, Academic in Residence and Senior Director, Academic and Student Engagement, AICPA
12:10 pm
Lunch
12:40 pm
ESG
Speaker: Jim McKinney,CPA, Ph.D., Associate Area Chair, Clinical Professor, University of Maryland
1:20 pm
Blueprint with new CPA Model Update
Speaker: Charles Russo, CPA, Ph.D., CMA, CVA, Associate Professor of Accounting and Director of the M.S. in Accounting and Business Advisory Services, Towson University
2:20 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Ethics
Speaker: Lourdes White, D.B.A., Lockheed Martin Professor of Accounting, Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore