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Requested move 28 September 2018

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The result of the move request was: not moved (page mover nac) Flooded with them hundreds 17:30, 14 October 2018 (UTC)


Certified Public AccountantCertified public accountant – The first letters in "public" and "accountant" shouldn't be upper case, see https://www.picpa.org/consumers/cpa-locator/what-does-a-cpa-do that shows "certified public accountant" in lower case letters. Balintawak (talk) 00:40, 28 September 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 10:02, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

  • Oppose. Both the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Chartered Accountant (CA) are title credentials that you earn through defined study and by passing an examination. So it has recognizability and as a title heading, I do not see the current listing with an upper case for "Public" and "Accountant" as a problem. See AICPA Audit Guy (talk) 02:40, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Please see "certified public accountant" (all lower case letters) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrolled_agent. Also please note that on this page "Enrolled agent" uses a lower case "a" in agent. Both pages should be either upper case or lower case. Right now, Wikipedia isn't being consistent.--Balintawak (talk) 13:47, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

From dictionary:

CPA

abbreviation for certified public accountant (all lower case letters)[1][2]

Balintawak (talk) 17:32, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ "CPA Definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org.
  2. ^ "the definition of cpa". www.dictionary.com.

References

  1. ^ Ward, Susan (September 27, 2018). "What Does It Mean if Your Accountant Is a CA, CGA, CMA, CPA?". The Balance Small Business. Dotdash. Retrieved 7 October 2018.

Please see Chartered accountant for another example. --Balintawak (talk) 04:20, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Please see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certified_accountant --Balintawak (talk) 04:23, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Are we going to change "Mechanical engineer" too? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_engineering. Attorneys have to be licensed, but nobody writes "Attorney" in a sentence. Nobody writes, "The Mechanical Engineer had six Attorneys and three Certified Public Accountants at his trial." --Balintawak (talk) 10:47, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

  • Reply @Balintawak: - Its funny that you should say so, since I am a mechanical engineer. The only reason, I feel this way is that doctors, accountants use suffixes or prefixes only when they earn the licence to do so, which may be rescinded along with the title. This is also not a case of an academic suffix. It is a licence title that is well regulated and governed by law in most countries. Also have a look at this - Chartered Engineer (UK) and this--Politicoindian (talk) 23:18, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

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