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Kathryn Simms, PhD, CPA (Georgia), and Clifford T. West, PhD
On any given day, the accounting positions on HigherEdJobs.com are usually in the highest tier of full-time faculty positions available for any business or nonbusiness discipline. At the same time, applicants available to fill these roles are in short supply. For example, the AICPA's most recent report indicates stagnant enrollments in accounting PhD programs from the 2006/07 to the 2014/15 academic years, with a dip to slightly below 2003/04 levels in the 2015/16 academic year (2017 Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits,http://bit.ly/2P5BuQJ). Furthermore, the average age of tenured accounting faculty members is 60, suggesting that these faculty members are near retirement (Steve Matzke, “A Ph.D. for Me? Really?” AICPA e-newsletter, http://bit.ly/2KME0qW). The annual demand for new public accountants, which has hovered at approximately twice 2004 levels in recent years, augments the problematic nature of these trends in the supply of accounting faculty, who are needed to educate the next generation of accountants (AICPA 2017). In sum, the undersupply of full-time accounting faculty members in the United States is commonly considered to be a critical problem.
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