Future CPAs + Students

In its latest salary guide, Robert Half provides projected 2025 starting pay for eight positions: four in tax and four in audit.

This guide will help you differentiate between a CPA and an accountant, as well as answer pressing questions about how these designations impact an accountant’s career path.

If you’re majoring in accounting or exploring accounting careers, you’ve probably been told that you need to obtain your CPA license. But what is a CPA?

Staffing firm Atrium recently put out its 2025 Salary Guide, which includes projected pay ranges for seven roles in public accounting.

Ways both firm leaders and non-leaders can help candidates on their CPA licensing journey, and how MTCPA can help.

In a joint effort to support the next generation of accountants while maintaining accounting’s rigorous public protection mandate, the AICPA and NASBA have proposed an initiative aimed at helping CPA candidates meet initial licensure requirements.

The workplace has come a long way. As expectations have shifted — allowing for more flexibility and requiring less formality — you might be wondering if joining a professional organization is still relevant or just part of the old-school workplace culture.

We recently caught up with an accountant who answered some community questions on what it's truly like to work in their field — and let's just say, it's not what you would expect!

While becoming a CPA should require effort, too many barriers to obtaining a CPA license prevents bright, promising talent from making progress in their career. As a leader or member of the CPA profession, you can play a role in helping to alleviate some of the most common barriers to licensure. Here’s how.

In 2023, the second year of Accounting+, the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) continued to spearhead this national campaign and platform, which focuses on raising awareness of an accounting career at the high school and early college levels. MTCPA partners with the CAQ on this effort.