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  • How AI Is Helping Firms Address the Pipeline Shortage

    By:
    Karen Sibayan
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    May 13, 2025
    The CPA pipeline is shrinking and career goals have changed. This is happening as AI becomes a strategic differentiator and not just an efficiency tool. How are these trends reinventing companies' staffing methods, skill development and leadership priorities? What will it take for CPAs to remain competitive in this evolving environment?

  • Beyond Pay: What Gen Z and Millennials Really Want

    By:
    Emma Slack-Jorgensen
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    May 12, 2025

    Deloitte's 2024 Gen Z and Millennial Survey gives a glimpse into two generations navigating a fast-changing workplace and making decisions that reflect their values. The worldwide survey contains responses from nearly 23,000 individuals in 44 nations, presents a picture of changing priorities.

  • Accounting Graduate Programs See Spike in Applications

    By:
    Emma Slack-Jorgensen
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    May 8, 2025
    Applications to U.S. master’s in accounting programs rose sharply in 2024, offering a hopeful sign for the profession’s ongoing talent shortage. 

  • The Workplace Agreement Isn’t Holding: What It Might Mean

    By:
    Emma Slack-Jorgensen
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    May 7, 2025
    When Amazon told employees in 2024 they’d need to be in the office five days a week instead of three, over 90% were unhappy with that change and more than 70% were thinking about quitting. 

  • Gen Z’s New Normal: The Rise of Micro-Shifts in 2025

    By:
    Emma Slack-Jorgensen
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    May 5, 2025

    A growing number of workers, especially Gen Z, are moving toward “micro-shifts,” or shifts lasting six hours or less. The trend reflects a broader shift in how younger generations think about work, flexibility and making ends meet. 

  • Middle Management is Being Rewritten, Not Removed

    By:
    Emma Slack-Jorgensen
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    May 2, 2025
    Despite years of predictions about their demise, middle managers still account for a growing share of the U.S. labor force. Yet the conversation around their future has shifted. 

  • Inside the Push to Rethink CPA Pathways

    By:
    Emma Slack-Jorgensen
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    May 1, 2025
    The accounting profession is undergoing a quiet restructuring. With talent shortages growing and interest in traditional CPA pathways declining, organizations are rethinking how people enter the field—and how it’s being explained to them. 

  • Survey: Long Hours Are Not Exactly Why Professionals Are Leaving Accounting

    By:
    Karen Sibayan
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    Apr 25, 2025
    Accountants continue to exit the profession, but it's not for reasons that are commonly believed, according to data from Tri-Merit Specialty Tax Professionals. The new data indicates that the reasons why many accountants are leaving their jobs and the profession are not really because of the long hours, endless deadline pressure, substandard pay or the belief that accounting is a "boring profession." 

  • Gen Zers Find New Inspiration to Become Accountants

    By:
    Karen Sibayan
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    Apr 21, 2025
    Although accounting has been seen "as one of America's most boring jobs Gen Z is realizing the perks of becoming an accountant, namely: the six-figure salary and the professional experience and the personal satisfaction gained from helping underserved individuals file their taxes for free.

  • Accounting as a STEM Legislation Reintroduced in U.S. Congress

    By:
    Karen Sibayan
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    Apr 18, 2025
    This week U.S. Representatives Young Kim (CA-40) and Haley Stevens (MI-11) reintroduced a bill that will allow accounting to be recognized as a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) field. 
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