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Now the Profession Is Losing Experienced Accountants Too

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Mark Maurer at Wall Street Journal wrote today about a young man named Omer Khokhar who realized after six years in accounting that he was done. The article title: “Job Security Isn’t Enough to Keep Many Accountants From Quitting.” ” Ruh-oh.

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Louis Business Journal ] One of the region’s largest accounting firms has named Missy Kelley, the former head of downtown booster organization Downtown STL Inc., to the new position of chief growth officer. “I have noticed in my 20-plus-year career as a partner that productivity has consistently continued to drop.

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The declining birth rate also plays a role into the low supply of accountants, according to Henry Grzes, lead manager for tax practice and ethics with the American Institute of CPAs. “It This survey reflects many of the challenges that professionals in CPA firms of all sizes are currently facing.

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The 25-year-old tax accountant saw the story on the news and decided he wanted to take Ralph, a woman he’d never met, to Game 2 of the NBA Finals. The authors posit that one significant factor driving the gender gap in the accounting profession originates with the Uniform CPA Examination.

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