The FSA will succeed in executing its Strategic Plan by uniting our members around a common set of clear and measurable goals and Strategic Initiatives (SI).
Promote value
- Increase member satisfaction regarding value of FSA membership
- Increase effectiveness of accreditation process
- Increase FSA revenue
- Increase university administration support of separate accreditation
- Increase CPA firm support
Educate and involve faculty
- Increase awareness among faculty members of changes in the economy and the accounting profession with implications for graduate accounting education
- Become the group that is considered the thought leader for current issues in graduate accounting education
- Influence curriculum change in graduate accounting programs
Share innovation
- Increase awareness of effective best practices of graduate accounting programs
- Hold a high quality, high impact innovation session at the FSA meeting
- Increase the number of alliances to share innovations
- Prominent journals
- Prominent professional groups
Encourage the pursuit of PhD education
- Increase the number of students in accounting PhD programs:
- Coming from accredited accounting programs
- Coming from the accounting profession
- Increase the number of PhDs teaching auditing, financial reporting, tax
Provide independent input
- Influence establishment of efficient AACSB accounting standards
- Achieve reliance on AACSB accounting standards for meeting minimum education requirements for sitting for CPA exam by all state boards
- Achieve adoption of uniform requirement to sit for the CPA exam in every jurisdiction
- Increase FSA membership among state CPA societies and CPA firms
- Increase opportunities to provide input to regulatory bodies