(To preface this is Big4) I just don’t understand what compels people to stay in the office past 5-6 PM when it’s literally not required. Do you not want to go home, change, see your family/pets, and then get back on? Seems very performative to sit there all hours of the night when it’s not necessary.

I work for a large, well-known leader in my industry. They announced today that starting January 1st, they are going to be cutting PTO back by five days, reducing 401k contributions from 6% to 3%, cutting paid parental leave to eight weeks, and health plans will not have as high of contributions for next year. This is due to “changing economic conditions”. They are completely fine.

My company is well known for its turnover and over half of the people on my team of 22 have quit these past two years.

I am currently trying to leave, but haven’t been able to get anything yet because I keep getting rejected after final interviews. Also been thinking of going back to school for something different besides an mba.

I fucking hate this career and this job market.

Edit: won’t say the company name. Not going to dox myself

Rejoice accountants, rejoice for no AI shall ever really displace this field.

Accountants you will be the last of the white collars, AI wouldn't dare to touch you for years to come.

Everyone if you want to be safe from AI get a career in Accounting.

I am convinced the best path is Public (get CPA> Industry after 3-5 years at a large SEC filer > tech company.

I left public 2 years ago with total annual comp (not including benefits) of $90k/year and next year I’ll make over $180k including equity comp, I’ll crack $200k with a strong performance rating. I am 5 years into my career and live in a zone 3 comp city.

GO INTO TECH GUYS.

I feel so let down right now. I have had 12 interviews where it says I would need 0 years of experience for an entry level position. Every person that has interviewed me has said they love my personality and would love to hire me but I do not have the experience in accounting systems they want.

I did internships in college but suddenly it is not enough? I don't understand how entry level jobs can tell you no when they specifically say no experience required, just a degree. Sorry for the slight rant. I'm just getting discouraged about finding a job.

small tech company, 30ish people. I'm the accounting guy. taxes, cards, filings, ap, ar, everything. all roadies and buyers have cards, probably 15 cardholders altogether. only 2 people are causing problems.

one says she forgets her debit card at work. she's made like $1000 in personal purchases on the company card over the last few weeks. allegedly half are for office expenses but she has failed to produce any receipts.

the other puts all her uber expenses to the company card, which is a little less grating because she at least acknowledges them, so I just deduct from payroll. she also charges buys a bunch of frivolous things for the company. example: nobody has a desk placard. nobody needs one because it's a small office. it's not an ostentatious place: the ceo drives a 20 year old handmedown audi. but this married man twice her age that she's been fawning over got a title raise so she bought an expensive placard.

like this wouldn't bother me if they asked, or if it were less frequent. but on Monday I'll come in and see 15 personal charges between them. or hey here's a new $300 yeti cooler for the office because they didn't want to get the ladder to get the other one above the cabinets in the cafeteria.

I had to finally rat to mgmt but I know they're just gonna use the same excuses. "I lost my card." "I can't afford to get to work" even though she's admitted to having thousands of cash and is paying for the f'ing ubers thru payroll anyway.

whew

I'm considering signing an audit internship offer at Baker Tilly over Deloitte because frankly, I'm not that interested in F500 exit opportunities. My goal is to exit into clean energy, gov, or NFP. I vibed well with my BT interviewers, and the firm appears to be more friendly, down-to-earth, and has less bureaucratic red tape than Big4.

Was wondering if my assumptions were true? I'm worried however about PE's stake in the firm, and the threat of layoffs. If BT is doing more layoffs than Big4, then I might as well just go Big4.

About six months ago, I made a post on this subreddit when I was a sophomore taking Principles of Accounting II over the summer. At the time, I was struggling with the class, had around a 3.2 GPA, and wasn’t sure whether I wanted to pursue accounting or finance.

I remember getting hundreds of comments, many of which told me to quit accounting, switch majors, or reconsider my career path entirely. A lot of people made it seem like getting a B in an introductory accounting course meant I wasn’t cut out for the profession.

Well, I wanted to come back and give a little update.
Six months later, I’ve raised my GPA from a 3.2 to a 3.5 by taking additional classes over the summer. I’m currently getting straight A’s, flying through Intermediate Accounting, and recently accepted a summer tax internship offer at a top-five public accounting firm.

I’m not saying this to brag. I’m saying it because I remember how discouraging those comments were when I was genuinely looking for advice.

The moral of the story? Don’t let strangers on Reddit determine what you’re capable of.
There are definitely some knowledgeable and helpful people in this subreddit, but there are also plenty who seem more interested in bringing others down than actually helping them.

If you’re a student struggling with an accounting class or questioning whether you’re smart enough for this career, don’t let a bunch of anonymous people convince you to give up.

One difficult class, one bad semester, or one less-than-perfect GPA doesn’t define your future.
I’m really glad I didn’t listen

Fully remote, but I end up working like 8 am to 7 PM almost everyday not even during close, which is like 8 AM to 9 PM essentially I feel like I am always on call.

My boss took his first vacation in a year last month and got bugged the whole time.

I havent had a full consecutive week off ever in nearly 2 years.

Is the grass greener?

😫

So I am currently in my last semester of my bachelor's degree. I have been to workshops with different campus recruiters, been to career fairs, applied online, did follow up email (from the career fair), sent recruiters letters of recommendation, have experience in accounting.

Even with all of this I have not been reached out / have my first round of interviews.

Any suggestions on what it is? Could it be I am "almost done and they might as well get their CPA"?

Is there hope of getting into the big 4 even if I am not an undergrad student?

I've applied to over 500 places and have gotten no internships. What's something I can do now to help me land something or prepare me for after graduation? I was considering volunteering.

Hi everyone, i made a new anonymous account to protect my identity but as the title shows I got laid off after 11 months of experience at a top 20 PA firm. I was an audit staff and I recognize I definitely had my flaws and did not do as good as I could’ve so I’m not going to sit here and complain about it. But what are my next steps realistically? I am CPA eligible but haven’t started CPA studying so I’m thinking that but I’m not sure if any other PA firms are hiring for this upcoming busy season so realistically i don’t know what my options are in this job market. So if anyone here has any advice please feel free to reach out or comment. TYIA!

Agree or disagree?

Jake and Brad arguing in the distance makes for a more interesting work day (I love gossip what can I say)

For whatever reason of getting fired. I wanna hear your quick story!

I will hopefully get my CPA in the next couple of months and I am considering starting up a side business.

Have any of you successfully started a small side business while keeping full time employment? If so, how did you swing it in the beginning?

I’ve been thinking of jumping ship and opening my own Solo-Firm. Why vs Why Not?

Saw this article on the front page of MSN (the best place to find the wackiest articles) and thought, sure, lemme see.

“Mark Cuban says these 4 job skills aren’t worth pursuing at this point”

He lists these skills:
- computer programming
- coding (I’m gonna be honest, what’s the difference between programming and coding?)
- repeatable tasks (fair)
- accounting

Under accounting, it says:
“Accountants, particularly CPAs, handle a lot of repeatable tasks. Since AI is getting good at parsing out different types of data and spotting trends, it may soon be able to handle people’s accounting issues as well.

‘I would not want to be a CPA right now. I would not want to be an accountant right now,’ Cuban told CNBC.”

I assume Cuban has no idea what a CPA does if he thinks CPAs “particularly” handle a lot of repeatable tasks. But sorry my fellow CPAs, time to get that cardboard box and set it out under the bridge 😔

Ughhh guys idk i really want this job. I networked with them so much and developed a pretty good relationship with the campus hiring recruiter. These next two weeks are going to be agony waiting.

I have 12 years in accounting experience with a music education degree and have hit a ceiling in my career. I have enrolled in my home state flagship university online accounting post bacceluerate option to satisfy the accounting and business courses required to sit for the CPA. However, I am fundamentally disgusted by the professor and Dept chair's outlook on outsourcing instruction to McGraw Hill algorithms, an avenue I could have purchased outside of tuition at a fraction of the cost. What program did you attend, and will this matter in the job sector? I feel that this severely undermines the academic rigor and devalues the university degree.

So i’m currently a junior applying for internships. I applied for multiple internships for the summer but out of all only one called back for interview, but today a week before the interview that was scheduled, they tell me that all their internship positions has been filled and I have no replies from the other internship that I applied for a month ago. I really do need advice currently as i have no internships so far and i’m a year away from graduating.