Collaboration Over Ego #accounting #accountant #accountingmajor #business #businesspodcast #podcast

Can we just all agree that we want the public protected and that we want more CPAs and we need to do these things together and collaborate together? I feel like right now there are four E's for CPA licensure. It's experience, education, ethics, and ego. And ego is putting out plans that are not actually thoughtful and helpful to the ecosystem. And you know what the proof is of your theory, Amber? It's that the top-down leadership has failed to improve the CPA profession over the last 20 or 30 years. We have seen salaries stagnate. We have seen the number of CPAs decline. All the numbers are going down. The only number that seems to be going up is accounting firm profits. That's about it. That's the only good news there is. And that doesn't help the people who are entering the profession because that's 15 years down the road.