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Barry Melancon, CPA, CGMA, has announced that he plans to retire on 31 December 2024 from his role...

Barry Melancon has announced that he plans to retire on 31 December 2024 from his role as CEO of AICPA & CIMA.

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Barry Melancon, CPA, CGMA, announced that he plans to retire on December 31, 2024, from his role as President and CEO of the American...

Melancon joined as CEO of AICPA in 1995 at age 37, making him the youngest CEO of the organization in its history, and served as the longest serving CEO since its formation in 1887.

The CEO of public accounting at the AICPA explains how trust, tech, new services and people will be the foundation of the profession's ongoing success.

That makes the trusted role of the profession even more important than ever, according to the AICPA's Barry Melancon.

The profession needs to leverage both its unrivalled reputation for trustworthiness and its creativity and entrepreneurial spirit, say leaders at the AICPA.

Technology that was once the exclusive province of large firms has increasingly been filtering down into smaller practices as the economics change and software improves.

The future is bright for auditing technology, but auditors need to embrace it.

REGISTER NOW The key tactic for CPA firms moving forward, and also what successfully guided many of them through the pandemic, is strategic prioritization, according to a panel of American Institute of CPAs and CPA.com leaders who led the keynote session Wednesday at the 2021 AICPA Engage conference. The conference is being hosted in Las Vegas and virtually July 27-29. AICPA chair and panelist Bill Pirolli shared a story of speaking with a firm leader this past year who was overwhelmed with her...