How has education changed in the last 20 years?

What was accounting like 20 years ago?

• i need to know how a career in accounting has changed over the last 20 years. the education requirements, skills needed, salary, and other things that have changed. personal experience or website.

• Answer:

  it was much the same as it is today, some rules may change or vary a bit and the reporting requirements re the sec and sox requirements and gaap or international accounting standards, but if you were an accountant then or even 20 years before that , it is much the same science and the complexity was always there. Although today there are more schemes and accounting for compensation benefits, derivatives and hedgings (due to new financial instruments) leasing and m , and a have changed , but if you could it then you could do it today. it took 7 years to get a cpa back then...as much time of study as a doctor.