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BONUS | Celebrating 100,000 CMAs

IMA's Count Me

The impetus behind that was that rightly so they believe that management accounting was a distinct profession from public accounting and that the competencies needed inside organizations were different from public accounting. And for perspective, it took 50 years or from 1972 to 2016 to reach the first 50,000 CMAs.

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Ep. 204: Joe Cecala - Democratizing capital markets for small businesses

IMA's Count Me

So this is a law that was introduced in 2000, well, originally in 2016, then again in 2018 and in the 2018 Congress, this is a law that got, and we lobbied heavily for this unanimous consent first of the House Financial Services Committee, 56 to zero. They have their internal accounting. I just want to clarify for the audience.