Less than half of public accounting staff hold CPA licenses: Trial Balance

Less than half of public accounting staff hold CPA licenses: Trial Balance

The larger the accounting firm, the fewer CPAs it has on staff, according to new data from Inside Public Accounting.

CPA Firms Are No Longer Full of CPAs

Just weeks after the profession got in a tizzy about private equity-owned firms telling staff to remove CPA from their email signatures and, in some cases, LinkedIn profiles, INSIDE Public Accounting has dropped figures on the average number of staff with CPAs at the hundreds of public accounting firms that report their data to IPA. Ready? Between 2020 and 2024, the average percentage of staff holding CPA licenses across all firms dropped from …