A Senior Accountant faces excessive work and stress due to insufficient staffing, inexperienced hires, and unresponsive clients. Attempts to advocate for experienced hires and client reductions have stalled, as firms prioritize cost over quality. The ideal solution involves proper staffing and eliminating problematic clients to improve work-life balance and reduce turnover, though this requires broader cultural changes in the industry.
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Senior Acountant
Insufficient staffing; knowledge gap of new hires not understanding real work accounting work; constant deadlines that at times have unresponsive clients
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Willing to pay for solution
Not too sure if that is possible. It is cultural changes in the public accounting industry that need corrected.
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Value Reasoning
It will help improve work life balance in the long run...then turnover in the public accounting industry may not be so bad.
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Current process
Getting the partners on board to hire additional people else and or drop clients that suck up all of our timem
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Flaw in current process
I think they are pervasive problems the entire public accounting industry faces. In the end, it all comes down to the bottom line, so if firms can hire cheaper (or not at all) they will.
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Impact
It causes me to spend more time at work, which is largely uncompensated due to being salaried.
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Attempts at solving
Tried to get partners to hire additional people with experience, not just new accounting school grads that do not know anything.
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Ideal solution
Staff engagements appropriately; hire experienced employees; drop problematic clients that waste too much of our time
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Value reasoning
It will help improve work life balance in the long run...then turnover in the public accounting industry may not be so bad.
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Challenge: Recruiting skilled accounting professionals is expensive and time-consuming, leading to increased operational costs for startups.
Challenge: New hires often lack practical experience, leading to a steep learning curve that can affect productivity.
Challenge: Unresponsive clients can disrupt workflows, making it challenging to meet deadlines and manage staff effectively.
Challenge: Navigating the complex regulatory landscape in finance can be daunting for new entrants.
