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Accounting at Berkeley The Pathway for Next-Generation Financial Advisors November 2011 Newsletter Letter from the Executive Director Dear Friends and Supporters of CFRM: I am pleased to report that our time over the past year has been dominated by several successful new initiatives to increase awareness of the accounting program at the University of California, Berkeley and the Haas School of Business. I hope that our CFRM newsletter will help to underscore these initiatives and our recent achievements for you. Much of the past year has been spent increasing the profile of the accounting profession through the introduction of our “Accounting at Berkeley: This Way to CPA” campaign. The campaign serves to educate University of California, Berkeley students about the vast array of career opportunities in accounting and financial advising, and the steps necessary to become a CPA. We were driven to make a deliberate, concerted effort surrounding the recognition of the accounting profession on campus by significant changes to the career timeline and education requirements for students. First, several of the major accounting firms shifted their intern hiring timeline so that students in their junior year now interview for internship positions in the fall semester instead of the spring semester. Second, the State of California dramatically changed their education requirements to more closely achieve parity with most other states in the US. See the “New Changes to CPA Education Require- ments” article on page 8 of this newsletter for an overview of these changes. The bottom line with the changes is that students will have to plan and prepare much earlier in their academic careers. Given that the undergraduate program at the Haas School of Business is a two year program, it means we have no time to lo