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Top 7 Reasons Why People Are Leaving Accounting Firms, According to PICPA

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PICPA received survey responses from 323 accounting professionals nationwide who have zero to 15 years of public accounting experience and have left their firm or profession within the past five years. Firms have to pay quality talent what they are worth or expect to lose them.

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Letter to the Editor: Life in Public Accounting Doesn’t Add Up For Young Professionals

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note: A reader sent in this thought-provoking essay on their experience as a CPA. In it the author covers their introduction to accounting, the impact the pandemic had on their goals, and the all too familiar feeling of watching your peers make buckets of money in other careers while you grind away in public. Crazy how that works.

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ICYMI: The Ten Most Popular, Not at All Clickbaity Stories of 2022

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Nothing at all like the luxurious gaming chair your firm WFH stipend covered, though let’s be honest that one is harboring some ghost farts too. Here’s Everything We Know So Far About 2022 Accounting Salary Projections. The only reason accounting salaries did keep up with inflation for so long was the lack of inflation.