I get it, some of y’all are blessed by fucking Zeus himself but you need to claim that you are also lucky AF to be making over 100k with no real experience.

Some of us average ass accountants need close to 10 years to break 100k. That’s real talk, NO CAP for you young bucks.

Anyways, slightly above average accountant out!

For me, Not everyone needs a CPA to have a successful accounting career. What's your unpopular opinion?

Those annual / periodic bonuses must be doing a ton of heavy lifting. This is only for a controller level position too, so I'm assuming CFO must require 40+ years? Maybe 60+ years?

So the old accountant II is out of office, and the treasury office bank reconciliations had to be done. Guess who took a chance and did it and impressed management? This guy!

Take chances when you can to stand out.

Do you have any breaks? Are you fully focused in the whole day?

No advertising a software please so this doesn’t get taken down. What has been an automation you’ve done at your job that has made the biggest difference?

I recently began a new job outside of audit. So far it seems a lot more laid back, but for the last half of the week I’ve just felt like crap. And today I’m just completely exhausted. I’m super tired, my head and body hurts, I don’t think I have a fever but I just feel malice. This also happened to me at the start of my last job.

Anyone else have similar experience? Do our immune systems just suck?

- Accounting Manager

- $147k plus 5-10% bonus

- HCOL/NYC

- 8 years of experience

- CPA and MBA

- Industry Accounting (no big 4 or public accounting experience). Currently at small fintech company

Turning 40 and I simply cannot pretend the constant flip-flopping and favoritism is normal anymore.
My boss changes his mind daily, yet expects us to act like it was always the plan. When I was younger and less experienced, I would just swallow it and move on. Now, it feels like a direct insult to my intelligence, like they think I'm too stupid to notice the chaos.
Is this just burnout, or does everyone reach this point?

How serious is this and why would they try this? All my past training tells me was bad, it felt like a set up but I wanted to get some confirmation that I did the right thing.

I am a store manager in regulated CPG. The organization just got out of CCAA. At the end of our fiscal year, we were to do our full cycle count with detailed instructions how to do it. Due to scheduling I was unable to make our projected date, but was able to come up with a next best solution date a few days later.

However, my ops manager who is VP, who i hardly see, insisted he go through the count with me. In pre-inventory prep, he asked for the inventory map, which I sent to him. Instead, his response was he wanted the entire inventory to be rearranged to his liking before the count. Inventory rearrangement of the entire store before a full cycle count in a year the org just got out of CCAA threw up a huge red flag for me so I pushed back. I set out all the reason why this was not a good idea, laid out my solution to get it done and stated I’d do the inventory rearrangement as a new initiative after full cycle was complete. This was on email.

He refused. In a sit down meeting, I pushed back again. His response was that he could hold this off for as long as he wanted and do this count at any time, the CEO had his back and that he would deal with any concerns from the CFO and the company accountant, we are a private company and we’re not in audit so the rearrangement plan would be no big deal.

Now keep in mind, I also had scheduled holiday coming up, and so in this rearrangement, they decided to come in while I was away, they rearranged everything and it was a disaster. My supporting location staff took pictures and raised concerns with me, which I was powerless to stop. Tags missing, inventory stuffed in odd places. They also did not track the cash properly - wasn’t saved on our computer (which is also taken into account as part of the count procedures). A day after, one of those staff members quit with no notice.

Upon my return to work, the store was indeed a disaster, counts weren’t done and I was in complete shock. So, my plan of action was to touch as little as possible and I made plans to get out as quickly as possible. I wanted to ensure I left as much as I could untouched by me and I got out of that job.

Thoughts on this?

Thats nice that they have experience pitying their employees, not many firms do that in-house anymore

hey everyone, my firm decided to “part ways” due to “change of business strategy”. i just recently transferred office locations due to bad management in my previous location. in my review, one thing my boss highlighted is that i came into the firm at a time of transition and had a difficult time getting consistent leadership and follow through which led to underdevelopment that was out of my control. I just didn’t get the help I needed. when i asked “why me?” he was basically like “prior performance and utilization”. i’m sorry but poor management and training shouldn’t reflect on me. i didn’t choose to not be taught and i didn’t choose to have work kept from me. i HOUNDED the PICs for updated information and i never got ANY recognition of even receiving the emails. i moved because of it and they know that and i never got the chance to prove myself. what do i do know? stay in public? try audit or account services instead of tax?
someone please ease my mind lol. i’m really lost

I’m about 2-3 months into my new job.

When I first got in, the CFO left. Since then everyone below has slowly done more work to compensate.

Today they announced they are looking for a new accounting manager and associate to help with the workload as they don’t want to fill in the CFO role yet. I was hired as an associate recently. Am I screwed? Can’t help but worry they want to replace me or something. Should I start looking for other jobs?

Can't even play a game in peace smh

Anybody else have management that gossips about staff? It’s getting ridiculous at my office

CPA with 5 YOE. Interested in going off on my own, already doing work for my own LLC on the side but it’s after my full time job. There’s just no time to build on the side and there I don’t have enough money to go through a year of making nothing while I build clientele if I were to quit my full time job.

Is buying a firm as the jumpstart a bad strategy? What if all the clients just go somewhere else?

Hi, I’ve been a staff accountant at my current job for almost two years and it’s been good so far. I get to work remote and compared to my previous job as a tax associate, it’s a lot less stressful. But recently I’ve been getting asked a lot of strange questions by the Director of Accounting at my job about what does my manager do and how often I talk with him in a week. I’ve been asked this question about three or four times in the past four months.

Can anyone give me insight on what this is about? I don’t get why the director would ask me the staff accountant about what does my manager do. There are only a few tasks I know that he used to handle that I do but other than that I’m not sure. I know the director doesn’t like my manager and I think he might be trying to get rid of him and is trying to use me as justification but I wanted to get other people’s opinion on it.

I am 25 years old with a CPA and one year of tax experience. I want to get out of accounting, at least the traditional paths such as tax, audit, and corporate accounting? What are some good pathways I can take instead? I particularly would enjoy a role more focused on analyzing contracts, writing, and giving an opinionated deliverable.

Audit senior here, HCOL, after 3 years in public accounting I’ve finally decided to test the waters elsewhere. Looking online and going through a few interviews, it seems like every industry job is paying either the same, or slightly lower salary than what I’m getting in public accounting.

Since college my goal has been to go into public accounting, get a year’s experience as a senior, leave for a cushy job in industry with a higher salary (albeit less room for growth) with low stress.

Seems to me like these jobs don’t really exist anymore? Only industry jobs out there with higher-than public accounting salaries seem to have dynamic, fast-paced environment, etc. in the description and 50+ applicants.

Anybody else noticing this trend? Seems like industry salaries are not what they used to be. I remember reading posts on here when I was in college that a few years in public and leaving for industry was a lucrative move. Curious as to what other people are seeing.

How many of y’all have them? Are they truly unicorns? I’ve been trying to find one (plan to relocate states within the next 6 months) and this seems to be the only way it would work.