New AICPA ‘Start Here, Go Places’ Website Debuts

Start Here, Go Places, the AICPA’s interactive website created to inform students and educators about the range and breadth of an accounting career, has unveiled new simulated career paths, job shadowing opportunities and scholarship searches, among other offerings.

The redesigned site encourages students to envision being employed as a CPA. One of the new features is a section called Meet Real Life CPAs. Its purpose is to gain an understanding that accounting is about people. Featured in this section are two CalCPA members: Dan Dehner, senior consultant at Durkin Forensic in Los Angeles, and Victor Molokwu, president of Victor Molokwu CPA in San Diego. CalCPA CEO Loretta Doon will soon be featured on the site as well.

Additional new features include:
• “FutureMe,” a potential customizable career path for students to view what their model career would look like;
• CPA Profile, which outlines the numerous career paths available to an accounting graduate;
• Job shadowing opportunities for students to spend a day at work with a CPA;
• Scholarship searches by state; and
• A special educator forum.

The site was launched in 2001 and  has received 11 awards from the International Association of Business Communicators, American Society of Association Executives and other sponsoring organizations. Since 2006, the site has had more than 600,000 visitors from 211 countries.

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