Future Professionals, in Their Own Words

A Virtual Roundtable of Accounting Students

Orumé Hays, CPA, CGMA

In BriefMany CPAs have questions about the upcoming generation of accountants: What do they think about the profession? What do they want from an accounting career? And how can firms and schools attract the best of the best to the profession in the first place? Usually, however, this discussion is conducted without soliciting the input of the young people in question. To shed a light on what the future generation thinks, Orumé Hays recently conducted a virtual roundtable with seven current accounting students and recent graduates. She asked them to share their opinions on the accounting profession and describe their own journeys to The CPA Journal's readers. Their varied backgrounds and unexpected pathways into the profession illuminate the bright future of tomorrow's accounting professionals.