Living The Dream... Accountants?

Any time you discuss job satisfaction in the world of accounting...especially at the end of the annual year-end close ritual...expect a bad result. A recent survey suggests the level of unhappiness in the profession has gone over the fire wall. Coupling this with the fall-off in college students completing an accounting degree...we have the perfect storm of unloved book closings and nobody to administer the process in the future!

While this may seem like a dire situation and with further reforms underway to scrutinize accounting judgment, the pace of automation and speed to close has been steadily improving. That said, bots do not sign management rep letters and our controllership functions still suffer through the jungle of manual processes and spreadsheet mania. The fix takes time, energy, and conviction to invest in the back office.