Non-accounting college graduates comprised 31 percent of new hires across accounting firms in the U.S. last year — an 11 percentage point increase from 2016 to 2018 — according to the American Institute of CPAs' "2019 Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits," which was released in early August. FASB proposed granting private companies, nonprofits and certain small public companies extra time to implement the new standards on current expected credit losses, leases and hedging.
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