The AICPA supports proposed legislation that would categorize accounting as a STEM career, with STEM standing for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Diana Deem, CPA, CGMA, an AICPA director of congressional and political affairs, shares more about the thinking behind and the AICPA’s support for the bill. Also, hear from the JofA’s editor-in-chief, tax, about the annual IRS list of “Dirty Dozen” tax scams.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• More about the Accounting STEM Pursuit Act, recently introduced in Congress.
• Examples of how accounting has transformed since one of Deem’s early roles.
• Insight into the annual IRS list of “Dirty Dozen” tax scams and why this year’s release of the list is different.
• The reasons that stimulus payments are one focus of scammers.
• Summaries of JofA articles on business continuity planning as a tool to fight fraud, and Supreme Court news related to taxation of remote workers.