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Educational Standards For Professional Practice As Certified Public Accountants, Mervyn Waller Wingfield

Master's Theses

The purpose of this paper is to present an evaluation of present accounting educational programs and to suggest a plan of improvement, including both long-term and transitional goals, which if executed would result in better qualified young men and women entering the profession of public accounting.

This paper is limited in scope to a discussion of the standards of education for those who are preparing for careers in professional practice as certified public accountants. Few states attempt to define public accountancy comprehensively, but in general the public accountant is defined in certified public accountant legislation as one who holds himself …