COMMITTEE ACTION PLAN
About the CPA Careers Committee
A committee of the NYSSCPA devoted to encouraging bright, creative and motivated young people to become CPAs.
Who should join:
Members with an interest in and a desire to see the profession thrive by actively attracting bright young minds.
WHAT WE DO
- Develop programs and events to disseminate information about the profession to high school students and their parents.
- Recruit and encourage a greater number of outstanding high school students to college level studies in accounting fields.
- Engage with high school guidance counselors to raise the profile of the profession as a career choice.
- Establish liaison with both high school and college educators and enhance their knowledge and awareness of the profession to assist in the recruiting of students for accounting programs.
- Encourage college accounting students to sit for the CPA exam through coaching methods, developing techniques to successful testing and working with the society’s CPA exam preparation affinity partners.
- Inspire college accounting students to enter the profession through various methods such as engaging member firms in visitations, providing internships, sponsoring of recognized campus activities and other initiatives.
- Coordinate efforts with the Moynihan Fund’s Career Opportunities in the Accounting Profession (COAP) program.
