Ernst & Young: Tax Educators’ Symposium features a tax legislative and tax reform update

By Rob Starr, Content Manager, Big4com

The annual Ernst & Young LLP Tax Educators’ Symposium features a tax legislative and tax reform update to its more than 100 attending tax professors from universities around the country. The annual symposium finished up yesterday in Washington, DC.

The symposium, produced by Ernst & Young LLP’s  Tax Services, is designed to provide robust and intense learning for faculty, teeming with value for professors to update and enhance their teaching and their own research activities. In addition to the timely update on policy and legislation, the two-day symposium offered another 15 technical sessions of the latest industry insights, information and updates for tax educators. Topics included: accounting for income taxes and income tax provisions, corporate and partnership tax, international tax, expatriation and global wealth planning, compensation and benefits, accounting methods, consolidated return regulations, state tax, personal financial planning and teaching ethics to the next generation of tax professionals.

Megan Goeltz, the firm’s Tax Campus Recruiting Leader commented:

“Building lifelong relationships with our people often starts on college campuses. That connection begins with our support of the professors who educate and prepare students for their future careers,” she said. “This year, Ernst & Young LLP is looking to hire nearly 1,300 students off campus to join the US Tax practice, representing a 60% increase over the past four years.”