Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the First African American CPA: John W. Cromwell Jr.
In 1896, three men passed the first Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam: Joseph Hardcastle, William H. Jasper and Edward C. Charles. These individuals are credited as the first to be issued CPA certificates under the first CPA licensing law. However, it would be decades and hundreds of issued certificates later before an African American would […]