Back in May, during something called "Ignite Learning Week," EY offered virtual training sessions to help employees meet their CPE requirement despite their insanely busy schedules. Some employees decided to multitask by attending multiple sessions at once to get through them faster. EY claimed this was an ethical breach that violated their code of conduct and fired them.

Here's my question to AICPA's new incoming president, Mark Koziel: What will you do as the new president of the AICPA to raise wages for average CPAs?

According to Knopp, "We have a brewing crisis that will impact accounting firms and corporations. We need to absolutely address it in the very near term. The cost of becoming a CPA has become too high."